Another reminder of why Beau of the Fifth Column is one of my favorite people ever. Such a good message for today.
A lot of people are feeling the way this young man does. His message touched me because he reminds me of me. This was hard thing to face once I really came to understand it.
Richard Westall – Sword of Damocles
When you get old, you get kind of jaded about this stuff. It’s easy to forget there are young people who aren’t used to nuclear saber rattling, or the thought of what could happen.
It doesn’t help that we’re running head-on into another man-made crisis no one seems to care about.
Those of us who are old enough to remember Cold War I, remember the feeling.
After a while you get used to it, living under all those invisible flight paths. It takes time. My mother had duck and cover exercises at school. Yet she married and had a family.
I had nightmares. I worried. But I learned to cope. Now that it looks like Cold War 2 is under way, younger generations are going to have to learn that skill.
It is absurd to have to live under a system like this, where a few people have the power to end it all. Enjoy the absurdity. It helps. A little…
You can’t sit around and have an existential crisis all day every day. It’ll wear you out. I know. Get up and do stuff. It hasn’t happened yet.
Daniel Knox – Armageddon Song
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