Saturday, May 18, 2024

Real Estate or Gentrification?

 I should write a novel, because the reality of America today is too bizarre to believe.  It's not, but it has been a long time since this kind of personal strife has beset America.  At sixty-one I am lucky to have lived a mostly peaceful life.  When I am forced to look back (which I don't do often), it is a mine field littered with my suffering.  As an adult we find ways through, continue to grow, and discard negativity.  Our personal happiness (as is often said), mostly is our choice.  "You're about as happy as you choose to be."  Sometimes, like now, your community or environment won't allow you to be  happy.  Their misery is to intense and widespread.  To stay abreast of reality one must be open to this dynamic, experience it, try to understand it, and then formulate a plan to move forward.  This last week has been exactly that, and it took me most of that time to figure out it was not me.  It is the people around you.  As a Christian I am empathetic, but to survive one cannot be pulled into the abyss.  You must resist.  Last week (in a novel) should be called, "The Stealth Assault of Robin Sage."  Last Sunday was Mother's Day, and we enjoyed an afternoon tea at The Carolina Inn.  Come Monday a post-holiday depression ensued, and it must be associated with the Robin Sage exercise at Fort Liberty.  I now will call it, "Trying to increase your pay by getting the Green Beret."  Because we do not have boots on the ground, I have mixed feelings about the American fighting force.  I did not support a war in Afghanistan, because the ultimate goal was minerals in their mountains and a lucrative poppy crop.  (Poppy Cock!)  America is over thirty trillions dollars in debt, we have no grass roots economy, because we outsourced our manufacturing, agriculture, and everything else to cheaper foreign labor markets, and we became addicted to wireless technology.  This shift, streaming music and video, managing our homes, families, and businesses online, and receiving acquiring medical care has proven a pitfall.  Over the long term America's existing and fastidiously-created systems were more efficient and reliable.  The "wired" network of communication is superior.  You cannot harvest all electrical signals from their insulated conduits and release them into the air.  It is ludicrous and belies the laws of physics.  That campaign, the campaign of a wireless economy based upon previously prohibited microwave frequencies, has proven detrimental to America.  Its "green" campaign continues, but Americans are starting to understand.  We are unhealthy, and there are reasons.  It's called the "time card." The time card is weaker people forgetting or not paying attention over time.  The Monday after Mother's Day a bleak vacuum emerged.  In stark contrast to normal Fort Liberty training (noisy aircraft, booming artillery, and rumbling fright trains), last week was the most challenging.  I call it "Major Suckage," major suckage because of the huge enveloping vacuum, and Major Suckage, the Army officer who oversees freight operations at the Honeycutt Marshalling Yard.  When they assemble military trains at Fort Liberty and CSX pulls them into Fort Junction, life in Fayettenam is a pittance.  The telltale sign of this military activity is a common moniker of Fayettenam.  The heat and humidity of Fayetteville, North Carolina (which has receded somewhat in recent years), is caused by Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point.  A deep water military port sitting at the mouth of the Cape Fear River south of Wilmington, when trains are loaded at Fort Liberty, traverse the CSX tracks through Pembroke to the large sorting yard at Leeland, here they are shunted to Sunny Point to be loaded onto waiting cargo ships.  A huge vacuum envelopes the entire Carolina coast.  Why does this happen?  Weak people will object, because we now live in a culture of fantasy in cyber space.  There is no pollution here, and because of the neglect of our mother Earth, the human population has become endangered.  Internal combustion engines burn air and fuel.  They breathe air from the environment for free and replace it with carbon.  To say comtrails are not harmful to people is lunacy.  While the white ribbons in the sky may contain water vapor, what comes out of a jet or diesel engine is not copacetic to human health.  It is harmful.  What happens to me in the wee hours of the morning when a freight train passes or a jet strafes our house covers the Cape Fear River Valley.  The breathable naturally-created oxygen humans need to survive is sucked out, burned for propulsion, and replaced with carbon emissions, heat, vibration, electricity, magnetism, and intense barometric pressure.  This is not a formula for survival, and this is one reason why we sick  When the core necessities of human survival are compromised for transit, then we are in crisis.  If we kill off humans, who will use these commodities?  Who will travel?  Who will consume energy?  I don't think AI ever will replace human beings, but I am beginning to think a small group of sociopaths are using it to thin down the population.  The proliferation of wireless airborne technology has reached an uncontrolled state of seeming domestic terrorism.  This operation seems to be cooperating punishing and controlling specific undesirable cross sections of the population.  The NSA via the Patriot Act has gone rogue and assumed the identity of an American Schutzstaffel.  We are being surveilled and manipulated by wireless technology, because this technology makes it easier, the same way living in cyber space is easier and more idyllic than living in Earth's reality.  No one has thought to question the Star Link satellite network, a low orbit band of snooping transmitters.  What I am describing is dystopian, but it is real.  Maybe we are on the cusp of this trend.  With AI in the forefront it would be easy to imagine a surveillance network which would influence your life with subtle changes to your daily challenges.  It could make things easier, or it could make things harder.  It could provide positive reinforcement or provide negative reinforcement.  If you think to much or outside the box of prescribed American life, it could make your life hell.  In most likelihood always this has been the case, but it occurred within human society through social class.  Say and do the right things, you move up the ladder.  Say or do the wrong things, and you get blacklisted.  Not that long ago it was Communist activity which elicited this ire, and it was correct for America to be proactive about this treasonous behavior.  Perhaps it became a snipe hunt and went off the rails like this onslaught of wireless technology.  I know for real that someone is watching and listening to every single thing I do.  When a home is supposed to provide you financial security and mental refuge, this mechanism can be put into play to force you out.  Selectively they can target you, a chosen malcontent, and push you out.  It's called Real Estate.