To Live in a War Zone at Christmas

 The proof is in the pudding.  You can gas light.  You can misdirect.  You can lie.  You can spread rampant misinformation.  Eventually like the economy the situation will correct itself.  Humanity must survive, and survival instincts are strong enough to cut through most B.S.  Take a look around your town or city.  Is it thriving?  Are there people?  Is it clean?  Or are there homeless people?  Are there indigent, desperate, drug-addicted criminals scouring the streets?  Have properties become vacant and dilapidated?  Does the air smell of diesel exhaust or jet fuel?  In short, is there life, human life?  What is human life?  America seems confused on this topic.  If I guessed I would say Americans are addicted to the internet.  They are at home, inside, on their couches streaming or gaming.  They order with Uber Eats or Grub Hub.  The kitchen is not used to cook dinner.  The yard is meager and neglected, and the kids bikes are in disrepair.  Very simple events can give life or kill a community.  This has been well known over the centuries, but with Trump's divergence from sanity and reality we have lost sight of what things are important to humanity.  It is not money, but money helps.  What is important is human health, and human health requires stringent and intense defense from the Borg.  The Borg has overrun America using her as a cheap whore.  This is what America has become, and even the world's richest man wants off.  We have raped and pillaged our environment and natural resources, and now we are tossing Mother Nature to the dogs.  This predicament is not complicated, and it is a matter of integrity, respect, and empathy.  If you want a community to thrive, and in our socioeconomic construct members must earn and spend, these members must be healthy.  We cannot work and earn money to spend if we do not remain healthy.  Health once was a simple matter.  Throughout American history a myriad of obstacles have plagued our survival, but we knew the foundation of healthy living was clean living.  Clean air.  Clean water in which to bathe, with which to cook and to drink.  It is our responsibility to manage the land and coax it to serve our purposes.  Conservation is important.  Frugality is helpful.  Wisdom in necessary.  If I look around the community in which I live, the obstacles have become daunting.  Most of these obstacles have been created by the need for revenue and a desire to pay shareholders.  Shareholders and investors seem to be controlling our lives.  This contingency has lost sight of the people they are supposed to serve, the American population.  It is not a select few of high brow society elite.  America once was for America.  When I see commercial flights carelessly using communities as runways, it incenses me.  Low flying aircraft are an imminent threat to human health only usurped by heart disease.  I'll repeat.  Low flying aircraft whether military, commercial, or personal are a serious threat to human health.  The aeronautical community seems to have forgotten this, and their convenience now takes precedence.  If they can save a little fuel or cut a few minutes off a commuter flight, then they feel it is okay to alter their traditionally regulated flight paths and pollute an entire community.  As I watch the planes do this daily in Fayetteville, it reinforces that the balance of authority, governance, and leadership are askew.  It has become our sentimentalized depiction of America's Wild West.  Anything goes.  The businesses rationalize their irresponsible behavior by quoting figures and protocols.  Often they do the wrong thing like Piedmont Airlines.  CSX has been doing the wrong thing since John Snow built this railroad into a financial powerhouse capable of exerting influence over most of our government.  If you provide the motive power for the Strategic Rail Corridor and coal for out power plants, "Embargo on, Master Blaster!"  The reality for humanity trying to survive in these communities is it is becoming difficult to survive.  The odds have risen above our abilities to compensate.  When our health is being assaulted, when financial opportunity wanes, and when violence becomes prevalent our circumstances become dire.  (Evidently President Biden brokered a rail agreement, because we haven't had a moments peace.)  The trains have sprung to life and are running continuously making up for lost time.  Rumbling freight trains and exhaust spewing jets do not provide the necessary infrastructure for healthy human living.  Instead they emulate the dynamic of war.  Because Ground Forces Command and Fort Liberty train for this, this may be their scenario of choice.  What about the rest of us?  Listening to bomb blasts preparing for the anniversary of the birth of Christ is contradictory.  There isn't much Christianity in fighting.  The enemy has become ourselves.