It's easy to blame technology for the breakdown of civil society and our increasing social isolation. A breakdown by the roadside suggests we might be missing something more important: trust.
Or, hear me out - maybe sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
And how you look at it says more about you than the object itself. To keep the cliches rolling, to a man with a hammer, every problem is a nail.
Myself, I'll stop or call something in if I see a need, but a car broke down on the road, particularly an interstate, in this day and age isn't the crisis that it was even 25 years ago, much less 50.
As you mention, you had at least one cell phone in the car, and probably more. I doubt there are many places along I64 without coverage in this state.
Talk does have value, but only if it is grounded in principle and not merely for its own sake.
One cannot help but wonder if there's ever anything the writer and like minded folk would actually stand and fight for, rather than talk.
If so, it's well hidden. A nation, a society, a culture is a living, breathing thing. In ways, no different than a person. If a man is drowning in a river, and you spend an hour, a month, a year, the rest of your life discussing what a shame it is he fell in; before you decide to do anything about it, you might find its a bit too late.
Republicans are drowning this nation in a torrent of hate, ignorance, greed, and dishonor - as they have as a group signed away their freewill to a tyrant. Why are we not holding the individual members of that cult to account? Especially when they want our vote?
There might be a 25% tax on maple syrup tomorrow, it might be 50%. The Canucks hurt Donnie's feelings it seems.
Maybe the Marines are sent to Fredericksburg tomorrow, maybe they go back to Los Angeles.
Republican judges lift the blindfold before making a ruling on a shadow docket, disaster help depends more on your political affiliation than your need. American citizens deported to other countries, or threatened with loss of citizenship - again - based upon the whims of a morally corrupt felon.
With secret police becoming the norm. Revered colleges are shaken down for millions, knowledge is suppressed or ignored, morally questionable lawyers are rewarded with powerful lifetime judgeships with little investigation of the allegations against them.
Oh, and lest we forget, as we gut funding for charity, encourage the criminalization of poverty and illness, and provide welfare to billionaires on a credit card.
And none of this matters as much as how cheerful Tara Durant was at the last barbecue, where y'all had a real nice conversation?
Yeaaaah....I'm just not seeing it. not at all. Right is right, wrong is wrong. Always was, always will be. Pretending otherwise helps no one.
Or, hear me out - maybe sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
And how you look at it says more about you than the object itself. To keep the cliches rolling, to a man with a hammer, every problem is a nail.
Myself, I'll stop or call something in if I see a need, but a car broke down on the road, particularly an interstate, in this day and age isn't the crisis that it was even 25 years ago, much less 50.
As you mention, you had at least one cell phone in the car, and probably more. I doubt there are many places along I64 without coverage in this state.
Talk does have value, but only if it is grounded in principle and not merely for its own sake.
One cannot help but wonder if there's ever anything the writer and like minded folk would actually stand and fight for, rather than talk.
If so, it's well hidden. A nation, a society, a culture is a living, breathing thing. In ways, no different than a person. If a man is drowning in a river, and you spend an hour, a month, a year, the rest of your life discussing what a shame it is he fell in; before you decide to do anything about it, you might find its a bit too late.
Republicans are drowning this nation in a torrent of hate, ignorance, greed, and dishonor - as they have as a group signed away their freewill to a tyrant. Why are we not holding the individual members of that cult to account? Especially when they want our vote?
There might be a 25% tax on maple syrup tomorrow, it might be 50%. The Canucks hurt Donnie's feelings it seems.
Maybe the Marines are sent to Fredericksburg tomorrow, maybe they go back to Los Angeles.
Republican judges lift the blindfold before making a ruling on a shadow docket, disaster help depends more on your political affiliation than your need. American citizens deported to other countries, or threatened with loss of citizenship - again - based upon the whims of a morally corrupt felon.
With secret police becoming the norm. Revered colleges are shaken down for millions, knowledge is suppressed or ignored, morally questionable lawyers are rewarded with powerful lifetime judgeships with little investigation of the allegations against them.
Oh, and lest we forget, as we gut funding for charity, encourage the criminalization of poverty and illness, and provide welfare to billionaires on a credit card.
And none of this matters as much as how cheerful Tara Durant was at the last barbecue, where y'all had a real nice conversation?
Yeaaaah....I'm just not seeing it. not at all. Right is right, wrong is wrong. Always was, always will be. Pretending otherwise helps no one.