At the Expense of the Rail Industry, Human Obsolescence

 It is pointless trying to talk about the dangers of too much rail activity to any local, like it is pointless to try to convince a MAGA warrior Trump is not for him.  He is exploiting you, but in a sad and twisted perspective, the followers want his attention.  They have nothing else.  If his appearance, charisma and stump are in the ballpark of the discarded, unguided, but faithful minions, Trump becomes God.  The world has experienced this before like many things.  Unless we consciously look back, seek out, and study history, we won't know these things.  With the huge decline in support for public education (which is a conscious attempt to dumb down the population), most average American citizens don't know much of anything.  They don't follow the news, read, or question what is tossed at us.  That which was there in front of us on television, in newspapers, and to a small extent on Am radio, has dissipated.  It is startling to say the least.  For me it began with the eradication of God in media.  Today we use "media" as a broad term for internet activity, which is becoming Big Brother.  Traditional American media is all but gone meaning print media.  Magazines.  Weekly rags.  Newspapers.  Once in America these were a core component of our daily lives.  Then Time magazine declared its war on God, and over time the mainstream has become alienated.  It has been purposeful, and in the last few months as Epstein files rain down on Washington, distraction and the dissemination of false information are rampant on the internet.  To find the truth one must work at it.  Life in America has turned tribal.  There is very little perspective, historical reference, or wisdom.  It truly has become dog eat dog.  If I criticize the rail industry as a whole, those working for it will react negatively.  Ironically the amount of workers they employ at local levels has dwindled much like other corporations.  AI has threatened to lay off large swaths of America's work force, but tests of AI show it is not capable of building a product.  The most efficient method of building products is in factories with an assembly line, which could be partly or fully automated.  When we find and peruse old documentary footage of these factories in America's heyday, we should be amazed.  How can there be any greater technology than one of these complex assembly lines producing consumer-wanted products.  America has become just a weak and lazy poser.  We move money around on Wall Street, trade what is left of companies, and create investment capital bubbles.  We as a nation bear no resemblance to what we were, what built us, and who that was.  We were tough fiery, rebellious hellions with a taste for freedom and happiness.  Now we suck on the teat of the internet.  Covid did not help.  It should be clear that Donald Trump is not for America or her people.  It is a lie.  Everything he has done has hurt ordinary people.  It should be starkly clear he is on and for the other team, and they have been trying to disassemble America and her methodology for some time from within.  Like a great cult leader with deception and cunning, he has coerced a constituency to follow him.  In probably the most grievous and heinous American act, they reelected him to the United States Presidency a second time.  Now the shit has hit the fan.  What does this have to do with the rail industry as a whole?  First understand that in the 1980's freight rail was almost bankrupt, and tractor trailers and their drivers were flourishing.  They were carrying the freight.  Today the railroads to move coal, inasmuch as coal is a controversial source of energy.  The Trump Administration in one short year has wreaked havoc on America and her people eliminating protective regulatory agencies and their rules to protect us.  The most recent, which was in the last week, was the complete and total abandonment of any environmental  awareness and responsibility to preserve and save mother Earth.  They will exploit the earth until we are dead.  Only someone who lives in their own lifetime is capable of such irresponsible behavior devoid of any spirituality, respect for our planet, or God.  Nothing is important except for what I am feeling right now.  It is difficult to imagine any human being this devoid of empathy including children.  Born with a pristine pallet of emotional and intellectual potential, and a hefty percentage of inherited DNA from their bloodline, beings with no souls are an extreme anomaly.  They are modern day zombies, and I am beginning to believe that the majority of who I see each day are suffering from this ill.  Without a support system of some kind provided by our nation's leadership at the federal, state, and local levels we don't have a chance.  Again what does this have to do with the rail industry?  At my own personal expense I will reiterate why.  There is no other corporate entity that has the power to affect our lives more directly than rail.  A close second would be the commercial airline industry.  It should be obvious the reasons why.  In a now trite and anachronistic way, the Iron Horse did build America.  We must and do have a reverence for the railroads and their expansion westward across America.  The "Transcontinental Railroad" was a watershed event in America's history.  Likewise the steam locomotive and its importance in the everyday lives of Americans spawned entire genres of American Popular Music.  More than one you say?  Like the trot and gallop of horses, our primary mode of transportation before the internal combustion engine, the lifestyle which developed around train travel largely created American Roots Music and influenced the Blues.  Without that sound and rhythm America would not be the same.  In the 1960's though the transformation to diesel had different effects.  I contend that this change from the sentimental sounds of steam to the knock and roar of diesel directly affected American Popular Music.  Its cousin was Lyndon Johnson's War in Viet Nam.  Stir in the Civil Rights Movement and America became more emboldened, assertive, and loud.  Older American music could not compete sonically and acoustically with the sounds of war driven largely by diesel machines.  Amplification took the place of more quiet intimate venues as the fight for American Civil rights spread to the masses and thus stadiums.  In assessing America's current rail system, the "Spaghetti Bowl," the term Precision Scheduling Railroading necessarily presents itself.  A product of Canadian rail tycoon Hunter Harrison who transformed their rail into a viable profit yielding Fortune 500 entity, CSX was smitten.  His hiring single handedly drove up stock values before he died shortly thereafter.  Nothing much as changed and the company has continued unabated.  From a citizen's perspective it is easy enough to perceive changes in their operation, the major north/south East Coast railroad.  It is not good.  Since 2016, Trump's first presidency, the quality of life in America has declined sharply.   It has declined from increased rail activity.  In a nutshell Amazon's wealth and success is contingent upon intermodal container shipping provided by CSX and other Class A railroads.  It is long omnipresent freight trains that are delivering your packages and wreaking havoc on the everyday lives of Americans.  Even discounting the heinous accidents such as the Lac-Megantic rail disaster in Quebec and the East Palestine derailment in Ohio, the daily operation of freight trains has escalated since 1990 when John Snow created CSX-T.  To cut to the chase General Electric and General Motors embraced AC traction as a graven image using the Hewlett Packard computer to control electronics in newer locomotives.  Traction motors were changed from direct current to alternating current, and the beast was born.  The ramifications of this change have not been recognized or studied as a source of human pathology.  Instead as America began to decline because of the exponential rise in human disease and ailments including Restless Leg Syndrome, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and more, we as a population have not recovered.  The outbreak of Covid 19 hammered nails in our coffins.  While Donald Trump's nefarious policies are our current challenge to resurrect democracy, without a change in rail regulations, the health and well being of average Americans will continue to decline.  There is substance in the adage of living on the wrong side of the tracks, and the highest incidence of prostate cancer in men in Rocky Mount, North Carolina is not an accident.  It is because one of CSX's largest freight yards resides here.  People and freight rail are not compatible, and if things continue as they are rail will win.  The human being will become obsolete.