(Something you may wish to “just” think about!)
Just suppose…..
If America goes back to “semi- isolation”…..
If America decides to protect itself first; and after that, maybe other parts of the outside world….
If America decides to spend more of its own treasure on “self improvement”…..
If America decides to depend less on foreign trade and actively reduces its “negative trade balances”…..
And just suppose, in order to do this…..
America feels it has to know who and where its citizens are at all times….
America feels it has to protect its markets from “unfair” competitions through tarriffs…..
America feels it has to protect itself by pre-emptive actions, both commercial and/or military…..
America feels it has to pass new laws and restrictions to enable it to accomplish these tasks….
WHAT THEN?
Where do we get our oil?
To whom do we sell our products to protect our high salaries and standard of living?
Who will have the technology to protect us from thousands of free lance “believers” who wish to exact a revenge (for who knows what?) After all, we used to be worried about a mutual “war of mass destruction” between two main enemies. Now we have all sorts of “free lance” enemies with access to “weapons of mass destruction!
Who is supposed to be responsible for these answers? (the demonstrators, the media, any politician, or, our “elected” politicians meaning the Government!)
From where are the so-called “FACTS” coming?
From where does the information for all these conclusions, all these points of view, all these personal opinions, come?
Do we reveal our present “sources and methods” of gaining (what our “intelligence perceives as...) truthful information in order to “inform” the general public? (If we publicly reveal certain details, what will we be able to “get” as continuing “intelligence”?)
Who makes this decision?
Can the “general public” be informed, really informed, without losing our ability to prepare an adequate defense?
What can we do about all this?
Just forget it?
Sit back and continue to “live and survive”?
Turn our mind off!!
Just suppose we CAN’T turn our mind off ?…… (What could be our options?)
Instead of being so willing to be “correct”, so “positive” in our conclusions, so unwilling to test our assumptions with logic and reason and the opinions of others; perhaps we could modify the “volume”, turn down the excitement of “doing something” (demonstrating in the streets, talking wildly on the media, etc.) and have “meaningful discussions…… Checking our so-called “facts…. Looking at many logical and reasoned different points of view.
Do we really just want someone to “BLAME”?
Suppose we don’t want to think but we feel we have to “do” something?
Is the answer to just wildly “BLAME” some thing or some person?
Does this really do any good? Does this attempt to “solve” anything? Will any “Successful Alternative” result?
Answer: Perhaps we’ll “just feel better”! …. (Ugh!!)
Each person who reads this will have to draw his own conclusion.
To “think” or “not to think”… that is the question!!
Can I do anything about “all” this? If not…. To “think” or “not to think”… that is the question!!
Can I continue to exist in the way I have been existing? … If not, what do I do?
If “all” this gives you a headache, you decide!!!
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