My Own Path Through

A Personal Note, and Thanks

Dear readers,

I am aware my submissions have been a bit sparse of late. I do apologize for that, but it has been, unfortunately, both necessary and unavoidable. You see, I do try to take my own advice, and the warnings I have tried to spread I do heed myself. As such, I have spent an awful lot of my available time focused on the personal, family, and community responsibilities and preparations I have suggested to you all. I have also been dealing with some significant health obstacles that have sidelined me more than usual, though that’s a tale for another time.

You see all around you that things are not stable in any reasonable sense in any system in America. But, for our purposes in this discussion, America is simply too large, and the world is much too large indeed. So, as much as I’ve thought it reasonable until now, and will continue where necessary, to bring your attention (and mine) to distant concerns, it is high time to both think and act local. You have little capacity to affect what goes on in DC, and lesser still in Shanghai. If you, at current, cannot say you have immeasurably more ability to affect your local environment than DC you have a lot of catching up to do, because you must be able to affect your local environment in times to come in order to be a positive force for rebuilding, refounding, and remoralizing.

You must first get to know your local environment. That means your local politics, elected officials, police, sheriff, NGOs, and so on. You must learn the social contours of your physical space: where is the criminal element concentrated locally, where is critical infrastructure, where are agricultural resources, fresh water, and waste management? Do you have a local road atlas? Topographic map? Can you shoot an azimuth? How you do filter and disinfect water if your supply is tainted? How do you communicate within a mile of home if tech infrastructure goes down? 10 miles? 1,000? All this and more is what I’ve been concerning myself with lately.

There are many reasons for this. We are obviously experiencing an American season of The Troubles, but we are also in a Postmodern hyperreal, distributed, decentralized, and asymmetric world war environment. It was only about a week ago I learned that somebody hacked a water supply in Florida in a manner that increased chemicals to near-lethal levels that nearly impacted, reportedly, as many as hundreds-of-thousands of people. This wasn’t even the first near-mass casualty inducing foreign-state sponsored cyber attack on potable water infrastructure in recent time. New York state experienced a similar attack in the last year. Add on to this the late-early-stage cascade failure environment due to Covid lockdowns, supply chain breakage, financial collapse, and so on and were going to be witnessing more and more things just plain breaking (and staying broken), thanks to backlogs for goods from overseas. I hope you’ve got some spare parts for your vehicle on hand.

We’ve opened Pandoras Box, it seems. I don’t know precisely where it goes from here, but reason should indicate that of the myriad possible outcomes very many of them involve disruptions that you will find to be local, personal, and painful. I therefore advise that, as I have done, you initiate a purposed effort to tackle local problems, build local relationships, networks, and alliances, and begin to exert an influence on what happens within your community.

Now, for those of you here who enjoy my writing (as opposed to any mere hate-readers), I have some mixed news. It is my intention to attempt, in the not-too-distant future, to shift entirely towards full-time writing, organizing, political advocacy, and any other useful undertaking towards identifying, describing, and prescribing possible fixes for what ails us. That means I will be looking to produce significantly more content across multiple medias – Substack, Locals, books, etc. However, as I, too, must eat, I will be needing to monetize my content, or some of it anyway, when I make this shift.

With that I thank you, my dear reader, for your time and patience, as I mend medically, refocus, and redouble my efforts theosophically, with the written word, and towards advancing a political warfare regime capable of rising above the threshold of failure. I pray I might teach you to do the same that we may affect our own community and beyond with these ideas, and, perhaps, even grow them to the point of social memetic self-sustainment.

For this once great American nation, for which we must not now mourn, but rather commence a wake in the vein of the Irish, and attempt to rouse the dead. I will have more, and perhaps exciting, news to come.