You raise a truly important point. A critical one in fact.
Modern life is the product of tens of millions of us each doing our own part, day in and day out, relying on each other to do their part. In this hyperspecialized world, we find the efficiency that allows us to feed, clothe, house, employ, and care for 8 billion humans on this planet. 330 million of them live an unbelievably comfortable life as a result.
To ask one man to do all of this is beyond a Herculean task. It is simply not possible. You can't just out-stoic this. You can't just out-work it. As someone who has pushed himself to that limit and felt what happens when things fall apart (twice, in my life in fact), every single one of us has his limits. No one can be all things. To ask such a thing of any of us is to set us up to fail. And recovery from those type of failures is slow and costly.
Flynn's advice is good, but he comes from an environment where an army works as a team. You watch each other's back. One man stands guard while the others sleep. One man covers while the other men run. We have to learn how to work as a team within our own communities. All politics is local. Everything we've done as conservatives since the Tea Party of 2010 has been grass roots. That's our path. It doesn't mean each one of us has to do it all ourselves, but it does mean we need to start thinking about communities: family, friend groups, social organizations, church communities, neighborhoods, etc and found our efficiencies.
We used to know how to do this kind of thing. I remember growing up if there was a tornado or a hurricane or a bad storm, we'd take up a collection of donated goods. Someone locally would organize it. Kids would help. Everyone would chip in something and off we'd send a trailer full of goods to those in need. I remember the Cajun Navy in Houston. We know how to do it, but it does take leadership and initiative. How many such efforts have been organized for East Palestine, OH and all of those upwind or down-river from the chemical contamination?
No feds are going to help in fly-over country. The system is too corrupt to expect a national response at the highest efficiency possible. We're going to have to look out for our own. That's what I'm taking from Flynn's message.
The only upside is that flyover country might be the only place in the country capable of uniting together to help each other. Seems like large urban areas might be the worst place to attempt this. Everyone expects someone else to do something.
Absolutely correct that one man cannot do all things. There are limits. And attempting to defy them results in predictable disaster. Been there. Probably longer than it should have taken to learn that lesson.
Fellowship is underrated. I used to think it was weird as a kid. And a lot of the people at church I wanted nothing to do with. While I still struggle to work and play well with others, I finally understand this concept. More people should do this. Hopefully that will be one of the positives to come out of this clown show.
You raise a truly important point. A critical one in fact.
Modern life is the product of tens of millions of us each doing our own part, day in and day out, relying on each other to do their part. In this hyperspecialized world, we find the efficiency that allows us to feed, clothe, house, employ, and care for 8 billion humans on this planet. 330 million of them live an unbelievably comfortable life as a result.
To ask one man to do all of this is beyond a Herculean task. It is simply not possible. You can't just out-stoic this. You can't just out-work it. As someone who has pushed himself to that limit and felt what happens when things fall apart (twice, in my life in fact), every single one of us has his limits. No one can be all things. To ask such a thing of any of us is to set us up to fail. And recovery from those type of failures is slow and costly.
Flynn's advice is good, but he comes from an environment where an army works as a team. You watch each other's back. One man stands guard while the others sleep. One man covers while the other men run. We have to learn how to work as a team within our own communities. All politics is local. Everything we've done as conservatives since the Tea Party of 2010 has been grass roots. That's our path. It doesn't mean each one of us has to do it all ourselves, but it does mean we need to start thinking about communities: family, friend groups, social organizations, church communities, neighborhoods, etc and found our efficiencies.
We used to know how to do this kind of thing. I remember growing up if there was a tornado or a hurricane or a bad storm, we'd take up a collection of donated goods. Someone locally would organize it. Kids would help. Everyone would chip in something and off we'd send a trailer full of goods to those in need. I remember the Cajun Navy in Houston. We know how to do it, but it does take leadership and initiative. How many such efforts have been organized for East Palestine, OH and all of those upwind or down-river from the chemical contamination?
No feds are going to help in fly-over country. The system is too corrupt to expect a national response at the highest efficiency possible. We're going to have to look out for our own. That's what I'm taking from Flynn's message.
The only upside is that flyover country might be the only place in the country capable of uniting together to help each other. Seems like large urban areas might be the worst place to attempt this. Everyone expects someone else to do something.
Absolutely correct that one man cannot do all things. There are limits. And attempting to defy them results in predictable disaster. Been there. Probably longer than it should have taken to learn that lesson.
Fellowship is underrated. I used to think it was weird as a kid. And a lot of the people at church I wanted nothing to do with. While I still struggle to work and play well with others, I finally understand this concept. More people should do this. Hopefully that will be one of the positives to come out of this clown show.