Life Lights
The Bible says, “You are the light of the world.”
Without light we cannot see things in front of us. We don’t know where anything is. We cannot even navigate.
Blind people compensate with other senses. They use cues and sensory input that sighted people generally don’t develop nearly as well.
The culture of our great country is segmented. It is not just regional. It can be different in an office building or a town, but not even a group of towns are collectively thinking similarly. Historically, before the explosion of knowledge, people were taught and exposed to thoughts in a relatively narrow scope. The local school and newspaper were owned and produced by the leaders of the community at large. Swaths of geographical areas had a culture.
Now, with the internet and TV and the rapid dissemination of information is so diverse. Communities are not geographical. They are etherial.
Leaders need to be aware of how diverse communities perceive issues. The USA will never be the same. We will never return to communities in geographic areas. We will never again have the concerted full-on community on hand when tragedy strikes. We will never again know everyone in town, even in a small town. We will never, ever vote with our votes, our voices, or our money as a unit again.
People who can discern right and wrong must be able to reach those who cannot see what is right and what is wrong. The massive movements of our times will look different than they did in the past. The marches on the capital and the parades are not where we should put our efforts. The petitions have little real impact. They are data gatherers. The crowds at the statehouse are important, but remain ineffectual.
Honest men and women who have lived long enough to see this know enough to know they don’t know enough to figure out how to make the shift. I know I don’t.
Leaders who would bring the country to the next stage must be able to use all their senses and be honest. Stop floundering! Stop pursuing a voter block, without getting to know the culture of that voter block. Stop trying to impose your own idea of what’s best for others on people.
We might have another election before the big reset that our country will inevitably experience. We are on the edge of a cliff that is dropping off behind us. There is no turning back. Logic dictates that if we continue to kill our people, the value of life is meaningless. Logic assures us that if we continue to take from those working and give to those who do not, they will go to the other side of the grab. Logic forbids children learning that their feelings are more important that the truth will have a sustainable future.
Demographics are available people. Use them. Reach out, lift up, return to the absolutes of old. There have always been murderers, thieves and despots. There always will be. But when there are more logical, truthful, altruistic individuals they become a great country. Let US become a great country again.