Modern Meanderings in the Fire’s Light

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

For the most part, I’ve lost interest in the news.  Ukraine war?  Don’t care. Lost submarine? Yawn. Pride Month? Good luck with that. Canadian wildfires? So what.  Russian civil war?  Whatever. Elections? Been there, done that.

I believe it was French Philosopher Voltaire who defined “cynicism” as armor against despair, but, honestly, it’s not that. On the contrary, I am enjoying life more than ever and my days are meaningful and well-spent.

One year ago, I wrote about helping a former business associate by driving a dumptruck a few days a week.  In that moderately metaphorical article, entitled “Building Roads While the World Wilts”, I described my perception of America’s remaining attributes, particularly, out here in the “fringe” and mentioned how people “here on the edge seem to be ignoring The Borg”, then wondered…. “For how long?”

Now an entire year has gone by… and in spite of all the new headlines… very little has changed in my world. So far.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart.”

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Governments needs to understand that they work for the people and that the people do not work to support government.”

Rupert Boneham

“Freedom’s indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it’s difficult to stop.”

Ludwig von Mises

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