I’ve missed things, I compete with missed opportunities and I don’t have much time.
Ten, fifteen years maybe but I will accomplish what I want, you can bet your last dollar on me. Problem is, we’re loosing the battle against the stupid. How do we fix that? Well, the first step is to bring back the word “stupid”. Totally incorrect statement these fragile days, but that strong word was invented for a reason. Apple operating platform is that, stupid, electric cars are too, space programs, traffic cameras, #metoo movement. Do you want to know what isn’t? When I sit on a patio by the lake on a sunny day sipping coffee and I left my iPhone at home and I talk to someone and what she says impresses me. Back to the stupid thing, and let me tell you this – when president Obama won the elections, the Republicans accepted it in the “yeah, fine” fashion. You just take it right? The people have spoken. When Trump won there was a fury from the left (and still is) not accepting any of it. Three years in and the political left cannot settle! What does democracy mean anymore? Just look at the Brexit mess, people voted, right, that doesn’t count for nothing? And Trump will win the second turn and it will get even uglier, I am convinced we haven’t seen nothing yet. Democracy is dead, a scary thought. We’re not progressing as societies, we’re moving backwards. In every sense of the word, the rules that made the western civilization great are out the window. There are Polish people returning from living in Sweden for years because they can’t stand the mess that country has become. Police in the city of Malmö appealed to citizens for help to contain violence. You know you’re in trouble if the police are asking for help. Some people say stuff that goes against the common regression and they don’t get much recognition. I am one of them, I wouldn’t have it any other way and I hope that there will be more of us. One thing to understand is this - it's dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong. Even worse, when majority of the people are wrong. In closing, I maybe temperamental but I also push the envelope. I say things that are original and this has to count for something. And to be clear, I don’t like doing any of this, it feels like paddling up the creek. My favorite quote comes from Charles Dicken’s novel “A Tell of Two Cities.” Here it is: “these are the best of times, and these are the worst of times.” And they are. For all your sinners out there, see you in hell, first lap dance is on me.
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AuthorTom Kubiak is the author of The Traveler Archives
February 2021
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