This is an excellent and thoughtful piece. Thank you. Your notion about the conflict between rugged individualism, family, help and shame is core to our national pathological dilemma and something I see played out every day in institutions as an organizational development consultant.
This is the kind of writing and focus that physically gets my mental juices jazzed. I want to ponder it some more and see what it evokes in me.
By the way, I share your bias.
In addition to my work as an organization development consultant I have also been a traditional folk singer of the Anglo-Celtic tradition for many years. Two touchpints to this current moment are, of course, singing in protest in the 69’s but also 18th century British movements like the Chartists, the Diggers and others. Reminders that we and others have been here before.
You may have inspired me to finally start my own Substack
That’s incredibly kind and lovely feedback. I am surprised at the friends and family who have shared similar thoughts, as this piece was more of an emotional offloading for me. I didn’t expect it to actually be read so thoroughly.
I do hope you’ll find time to write, even if it isn’t published. It’s a lovely way to spend one’s time.
You’re young, I won’t hold it against you. “A conservative is a liberal who got mugged by reality.” - Rush Limbaugh. There’s so much indoctrination to unpack, more today than when I was young. I love lessons from history, and getting different perspectives to form my own opinions, that’s why I followed you. My request is that you be more specific, don’t ramble so much. It’s hard to hold a conversation when you’re all over the place, a waste of time actually. But since you’re getting started I’ll give you a little grave. I voted for Trump 3 times. I’m a military veteran, father, and I Jesus Christ is my King. That gives you my “perspective”. Here’s a subject I would like you to address: these mail it in, ballot harvesting, machine counting, unverified citizenship, never ending counting so-called “free and fair elections” that should be conducted, counted and winners announced by the next day, but instead drag on for obvious nefarious (corrupt) reasons. “It’s not who votes, but who counts the votes that matters.” - Vladimir Lenin
This is an excellent and thoughtful piece. Thank you. Your notion about the conflict between rugged individualism, family, help and shame is core to our national pathological dilemma and something I see played out every day in institutions as an organizational development consultant.
This is the kind of writing and focus that physically gets my mental juices jazzed. I want to ponder it some more and see what it evokes in me.
By the way, I share your bias.
In addition to my work as an organization development consultant I have also been a traditional folk singer of the Anglo-Celtic tradition for many years. Two touchpints to this current moment are, of course, singing in protest in the 69’s but also 18th century British movements like the Chartists, the Diggers and others. Reminders that we and others have been here before.
You may have inspired me to finally start my own Substack
That’s incredibly kind and lovely feedback. I am surprised at the friends and family who have shared similar thoughts, as this piece was more of an emotional offloading for me. I didn’t expect it to actually be read so thoroughly.
I do hope you’ll find time to write, even if it isn’t published. It’s a lovely way to spend one’s time.
-Will
You’re young, I won’t hold it against you. “A conservative is a liberal who got mugged by reality.” - Rush Limbaugh. There’s so much indoctrination to unpack, more today than when I was young. I love lessons from history, and getting different perspectives to form my own opinions, that’s why I followed you. My request is that you be more specific, don’t ramble so much. It’s hard to hold a conversation when you’re all over the place, a waste of time actually. But since you’re getting started I’ll give you a little grave. I voted for Trump 3 times. I’m a military veteran, father, and I Jesus Christ is my King. That gives you my “perspective”. Here’s a subject I would like you to address: these mail it in, ballot harvesting, machine counting, unverified citizenship, never ending counting so-called “free and fair elections” that should be conducted, counted and winners announced by the next day, but instead drag on for obvious nefarious (corrupt) reasons. “It’s not who votes, but who counts the votes that matters.” - Vladimir Lenin
You are an outdated and willfully delusional liberal. I’m not saying liberal as an insult either, I do mean liberal. Liberalism is garbage.