I've worked hand in hand with folks leading in this capacity. Here is exactly what happens. If you question or do not comply, you are automatically put on the bench, disregarded and dismissed. You do NOT have to lose your job to be in this situation. Additionally, I know first hand that the news companies and I mean the ones that look like we can trust them, are not interested in the truth. How do I know? I have spoken personally to them. If it doesn't bring clicks and chicks.. it ain't on the menu brother. The system itself is by design capable of dispensing the people who disagree with ease. The rest of the people see the shattering lives of those who found themselves in immediate harms way. They shut the hell up and salute while quietly drinking in the bathroom. My estimation is that those of us who care, are way in the back of the train. We know where the train is heading but our options are not impossible but highly limited. This is a highly complex social stratum that has many historical moments to reference. As the President and the US government along with our military find themselves in impossible situations, they will always and I MEAN ALWAYS lean toward self preservation over the greater good. Each person will have their own reasoning, but no one will be a martyr for NO PURPOSE. As I said, this is NOT impossible but highly likely that we will see this through to whatever end is currently on track. There are no checks and balances and as you've written, even those with feelings about this are cowards.
I inclined to agree, yet I do remember a man once stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square with nothing but a shopping bag. The tanks did not stop. The massacre was not prevented. And yet thirty five years later, we still do not know his name, but we know exactly who he was.
Today, I am spending a little time writing about value. What you are writing about is important. Your expression is important. I hear and see it. In one sense we are nothing and in another we are everything. Hard to know what will happen but what we do know is that many atrocities have been committed by human beings in the name and for the sake of filling the empty void of soulless monsters. For every man standing in front of a tank, there have been countless that we can't see or don't know of. History is filled with brave, honorable people who just wanted peace. The people in seats today who have a choice to do the right things are choosing to allow this terrible nonsense to happen. If WE want things to change, we would have to either get inside and have staying power or have the ability to drive change in a meaningful way that inspires others to act. Historically, this is by death or great acts of courage. At the end of the day, we CAN come out of this but given the current trajectory and the people being flushed out of the system expecting fairness, we will see authoritarian regime change and the America we knew will look a lot like the Russia and China we know. I am not betting on it but.. this is what is happening.
I've worked hand in hand with folks leading in this capacity. Here is exactly what happens. If you question or do not comply, you are automatically put on the bench, disregarded and dismissed. You do NOT have to lose your job to be in this situation. Additionally, I know first hand that the news companies and I mean the ones that look like we can trust them, are not interested in the truth. How do I know? I have spoken personally to them. If it doesn't bring clicks and chicks.. it ain't on the menu brother. The system itself is by design capable of dispensing the people who disagree with ease. The rest of the people see the shattering lives of those who found themselves in immediate harms way. They shut the hell up and salute while quietly drinking in the bathroom. My estimation is that those of us who care, are way in the back of the train. We know where the train is heading but our options are not impossible but highly limited. This is a highly complex social stratum that has many historical moments to reference. As the President and the US government along with our military find themselves in impossible situations, they will always and I MEAN ALWAYS lean toward self preservation over the greater good. Each person will have their own reasoning, but no one will be a martyr for NO PURPOSE. As I said, this is NOT impossible but highly likely that we will see this through to whatever end is currently on track. There are no checks and balances and as you've written, even those with feelings about this are cowards.
I inclined to agree, yet I do remember a man once stood in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square with nothing but a shopping bag. The tanks did not stop. The massacre was not prevented. And yet thirty five years later, we still do not know his name, but we know exactly who he was.
Today, I am spending a little time writing about value. What you are writing about is important. Your expression is important. I hear and see it. In one sense we are nothing and in another we are everything. Hard to know what will happen but what we do know is that many atrocities have been committed by human beings in the name and for the sake of filling the empty void of soulless monsters. For every man standing in front of a tank, there have been countless that we can't see or don't know of. History is filled with brave, honorable people who just wanted peace. The people in seats today who have a choice to do the right things are choosing to allow this terrible nonsense to happen. If WE want things to change, we would have to either get inside and have staying power or have the ability to drive change in a meaningful way that inspires others to act. Historically, this is by death or great acts of courage. At the end of the day, we CAN come out of this but given the current trajectory and the people being flushed out of the system expecting fairness, we will see authoritarian regime change and the America we knew will look a lot like the Russia and China we know. I am not betting on it but.. this is what is happening.