It sounds naive to you I'm sure but I look at it as a wonder first noticed many years ago that just continues to amaze. Do you need some hazelnut oil? How about three-quarters of a pound of pastrami brisket...shaved, or maybe you are in the mood for some wild caught squid or Prince Edward Island mussels? Whatever you want it is at your fingertips at your local supermarket here in the United States! If there is something else that you want, clothes or accessories, and our local retailer doesn't have it, all one has to do is spend fifteen minutes on Amazon and it will probably be delivered the next day. Is it naive to still feel the wonder of this phenomenon decades after it came to be? Maybe it is but if one does not at least acknowledge the overwhelming abundance and varieties available to us then there is something else in the equation....extreme presumption!
It's possible I guess that my upbringing has something to do with my feelings. In my youth the supermarkets had....pork & beans, potatoes, bread, eggs, milk, laundry detergent and cookies....and about a thousand other things but they were all basically staples..... and we were thankful for that. We were never in want for a string of hot dogs or a quarter pound stick of butter.
Our weekly grocery shopping would probably not affect me so much if I didn't believe that this smorgasbord of delights was about to come to a grinding halt, for we soon may be thankful once again for a can of pork & beans and a loaf of bread. We've presumed upon our freedoms and more importantly we've presumed upon God. We saw everything that was available to us and thought of them as rights instead of blessings to be sorted through and pruned if necessary.
To use an old phrase that would be considered ludicrous today....there is the devil to pay... for our failures down the line and from top to bottom, and there are not that many who have not contributed in some way to the trouble that we are in, and I certainly am not one of them.
How did we come to fashion a society where half of its people build up their 401s for security while the other half will depend on a social security check and a few bucks in the bank? This is not a 'top one-percenter issue'....it's a 'half will have enough money and have will not' issue. As a nation, how did we let many of our important industries close up and give this valuable business and needed infrastructure to foreign nations....who hate us? How and why were we taken in so easily by power brokers of special interests who gorge themselves on our dues and the perks from our votes while the rest of the country went to Hades? There are answers to all of these but what is needed more at this time is sober preparation.
We are now nearing if not in the endgame of this current world order. .... and the moves may be quick and surprising.
It's possible I guess that my upbringing has something to do with my feelings. In my youth the supermarkets had....pork & beans, potatoes, bread, eggs, milk, laundry detergent and cookies....and about a thousand other things but they were all basically staples..... and we were thankful for that. We were never in want for a string of hot dogs or a quarter pound stick of butter.
Our weekly grocery shopping would probably not affect me so much if I didn't believe that this smorgasbord of delights was about to come to a grinding halt, for we soon may be thankful once again for a can of pork & beans and a loaf of bread. We've presumed upon our freedoms and more importantly we've presumed upon God. We saw everything that was available to us and thought of them as rights instead of blessings to be sorted through and pruned if necessary.
To use an old phrase that would be considered ludicrous today....there is the devil to pay... for our failures down the line and from top to bottom, and there are not that many who have not contributed in some way to the trouble that we are in, and I certainly am not one of them.
How did we come to fashion a society where half of its people build up their 401s for security while the other half will depend on a social security check and a few bucks in the bank? This is not a 'top one-percenter issue'....it's a 'half will have enough money and have will not' issue. As a nation, how did we let many of our important industries close up and give this valuable business and needed infrastructure to foreign nations....who hate us? How and why were we taken in so easily by power brokers of special interests who gorge themselves on our dues and the perks from our votes while the rest of the country went to Hades? There are answers to all of these but what is needed more at this time is sober preparation.
We are now nearing if not in the endgame of this current world order. .... and the moves may be quick and surprising.
