LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT?
The world is both small and large. If the corrupt Democratic Party continues its socialism, I am out.
The world is very large; the world is very small. Are these opposing statements? Let us agree that it is both. In some nation-states, including the United States of America, the world seems jam-packed.
That is only true of the coasts. We seem to love the ocean. And, why not? Many millenniums ago, the forerunners of the great Human Race crawled out of the ocean. One cell critters became two celled, and kept fornicating along until we split from our ape cousins, once and for all, and stood erect.
Before you knew it, those Neanderthal dudes, noticed the groovy bodies on the Homo Sapien chicks, and like a miracle, a certain section of their bodies became erect.
The fact that they looked a bit off to the Neanderthals did not stop the intermarriage, or, the inter-rape. As my dear old Dad told me once: A stiff prick has no conscious.
Time wore on, and nations, city-states, and Empires were born, then crumbled to dust, only to be fodder for budding archaeology students. Have you ever been to Rome, Italy? It has some astounding parallels to the USA.
After the Republic died and became an Empire, it was way too large to manage. Taxation increased at the same pace as colonization. (Ring any bells?) Only the Elites of the Republic got all the good stuff. (Your alarm clock ought to be blasting about now.)
Soon, the Barbarians were at the gate. Yes, I am a proud descendant of a couple of barbarian tribes. The Jews, on the other hand, seemed to keep their act together for six thousand years, but not without some editing.
One youngish dude named Jesus Christ even formed his own following, and believe me, he was more of a rock star than Mick Jagger. Soon, all sorts of reformations and counter-reformations sprung up. Burning at the stake was the most crowd-pleasing police action.
I posit that this is because those folks did not have Netflix.
Then, as the Spanish Monarchs, Isabella and Ferdinand decided to kick all non-Catholics out, a miracle happened. Actually, most of the blame for this belongs to Torquemada, but why obsess this late in the game?
Christoph Colon had three ships; The Nina, The Pinta, and The Santa Maria. He also had a Jewish navigator aboard, who was very happy to split the scene, as we used to say in the 1960s. All of them hoped to get rich by finding China and the legendary spice islands.
Now, a better course may be to lose China.
Gazing through the comforting crystal ball of history, the rules of that Empire thingy always follow the same pattern: They crash and burn after approximately 300 years.
I can give a few examples, just in case you never had a good history teacher.
Greece
Rome
Persia
The Romanovs of Russia
And so forth and so on.
So, this Grand Experiment called America, or more accurately, The United States of America, has been around for 245 years. If you measure not in Dog years, but Empire years, I believe we can say it’s a bit long in the tooth.
At my age, I will be gone before it crumbles to dust; but my grandchild, and your grandchildren will be alive. Sort of.
Have you ever heard of the Sack of Rome and all that happened then? It was very far from a Life Magazine Garden Party of the 1950’s. All sorts of ne’er-do-wells brought violence, theft and the usual riots.
Does any of that panorama seem at all familiar as you watch or read your newspaper or TV news?
All that we need is Roman costumes. Personally, I really do like the Toga. I bet it hides all sorts of figure flaws. Swords are cool to, but for me, nothing beats what my 2A has provided
.For an old broad, I am pretty good at it too.
As a descendant of the turmoil called the Continent of Europe, I think I may go back there to watch the carnage. I may choose Spain. The south of Spain, Alicante. We looked at it and saw that it was good.
One thing I will never-ever do, is join another Empire. For obvious reasons.
Oh, and I do not use CENSORBOOK anymore. Suckerberg has enough moolah, plus the Fornicating Bureau of Investigation monitors it. I’m on enough lists already.