I absolutely would burn this planet to keep from living life under the thumb of those you would prefer to surrender to. What’s the point of living if you’re subjected to that? Do you really want to live like that?
Long ago, I nearly died. I should have. The neurosurgeon that did surgery on me, told my folks, and the girl I was seeing at the time, when they were in the waiting room, I would only have a 15% chance of survival.
Since then? Life has not been easy. There were many days, I wanted to die, and for many years, I even acted, stupidly, like I had a death wish. The only thing that kept me going on, is I did not want to transfer the agony of my daily existence, to the pain I know I would leave behind, to those who had waited breathlessly in that waiting room for me, otherwise? Yes, I would have ended it. Living in agonizing pain, every day? Makes politics, philosophy, and religion, nearly meaningless.
Then? One day, I met someone and fell in love. I had a son.
I imagine, even in the worst regimes, folks still fall in love, and have children. I imagine, even during the worst of circumstances, love still finds a way, don't you?
. . and eventually, love, life, and freedom, will return. Someway, somehow.
"Hope," it is always there, as long as folks draw breath.
. . . but it can't do that if we destroy the planet, and burn the whole thing to the ground, extinguishing all life, forever.
And forever, is a mighty long time.
Of course I don't, "prefer to surrender," to anyone. But from where I am sitting? Watching what has happened to this nation since at least the assassination of JFK? Folks have been surrendering their freedom, their sovereignty, and their sanity, a little bit, more and more, each and everyday. I honestly don't see a whole hell of a lot of difference in their systems, and ours. They seem to be dissolving. I don't even feel safe anymore, writing and expressing my own thoughts to my own family and friends, on-line anymore. How is that, "still the land of the free and the home of the brave?"
That garbage Patriot Act, and all those so-called emergency measures during Covid? Our founders would no longer recognize this place. Hell, JFK wouldn't recognize this place, he would think Cuba took over. So don't hand me this, "living life under the thumb of those you would prefer to surrender to." It's garbage agitprop. We aren't defending anything but tyranny ourselves anymore.
And it sure as hell ain't worth incinerating the planet over.