Winter winds accompanied by ice and snow have come to the highlands of Nevada once again.
The autumn leaves have almost all tumbled down in our recent heavy gusts. They lay on the frozen ground as they wither, decay and fade away like our memories of summertime.
Yes, Mother Nature has asserted her authority once more as we huddle in our defensive mode in sweaters, heavy jackets, gloves and hoodies.
Even still, the cold will bite you when you venture out in the early morning or in the evening. And if it’s windy, it can chill you to the bone.
So we tend to remain indoors these days as much as possible. You see, most of us humans have grown accustomed to the comforts of our modern age. Hard physical work, struggling and perseverance in the face of a harsh and challenging environment; these actions seem to have become part of our past.
We use computers and high-tech electronic gadgets these days instead of axes, picks and shovels. We have automatic machinery, plastics and almost instant telecommunications along with modern medicine which have improved our lifestyles and extended our longevity. As such, we’ve become soft, complacent and very much dependent on our improved modern technology.
But, God forbid, there should be a sudden glitch, a prolonged outage of power, an internet collapse or a major economic debacle; what would we ever do? How would we survive?
But such dire events have occurred periodically throughout our history and are happening today in other parts of the world. Wars, floods, famines and such man-made and natural disasters are just parts of the up and down cycles of our lives over extended periods of time.
So what, dear reader, would you do if you woke up tomorrow morning and your phone didn’t work? Can you still function without your exterior electronic brain? And if they rationed gasoline for a couple of weeks and after that you could get none at all, what would you do? How would you get around?
Let’s say you were lucky enough to find a grocery store open and you want to buy a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread. You try to pay the storekeeper but he says “US dollars ain’t no good here no more. What else have you got?”
If you still actually have a job, how will they pay you? With worthless dollars?
No more Starbucks, Walmart stores locked and boarded up and guarded by heavily armed security. No more McDonalds to be found, at least none open.
Could such dramatic events occur in our modern world? Well there are a growing number of countries around the world where this is becoming an everyday phenomena with hungry mobs rioting in the streets. Governments, banks and police are in desperate straits trying to regain some semblance of order and for civil society to continue to function.
Oh, oh. I’m afraid I’m drifting off into envisioning a Mad Max future society for us here! And much as I’m usually quite optimistic about our abilities to make things go well and keep our ship afloat, I now sense a darkness approaching.
We appear to be living in a complete schizophrenic scene as we look at the contrast between western nations and that of our third world countries of today. It’s the haves versus the have nots with shortages, power outages, inflation, hunger and cold increasing in the so called developing nations and it is sadly increasing and spreading.
Our once cherished capitalism, free speech, self-determinism along with our liberty and personal freedoms; all appear to be out of favor and diminishing. They are fading away here in the US and in Europe.
There is what I consider a growing popular fantasy among our elite, the young, academia and media that a bright future of wind and solar energy along with electric cars for everyone awaits us in some sort of future utopian communis hive.
It’s their New World Order dream patterned after the Chinese social credit system with its total state central control.
Resistance in such a world will, more than likely, be futile.
This looks like a future world of slavery to me and one that I would not want to live in. How about you?
So what can we do to protect against this oncoming dark Winter? And how can we hasten a bright early Spring?
Dan can be reached at danhughoconnor@gmail.com
