If times get hard, can we live off the land?

Since most cannot, do we decide to surrender?

Or do we do our best to survive? Can we survive relearning to grow and make food and clothes and heat? If we are trying to survive, are we tribal or more nation-state, as in American? Basically, is our survival about us, or our American society?

Whether the worst case comes to pass or not, the basic questions exist. For the last four or five decades, an overreaching idealistic principle that assumes America, the USA, is the world standard and goal of life and lifestyle, has seemed to predominate here in the USA, and has resounded and reverberated at home. That most in the rest of the world, mostly the third world, did not either get the message, or agree with the message, seems to pass most people by. What a shame since these other world people count, too. And most of us would rather do business with them dealing in their standards than fighting them in their standards.

Some of these third world people want to kill us, end our way of life, and impose their way of life. It seems hard to believe, but there we are. Use the 9/11 events to spark your incredulity. And they are such a minority. But then again, all revolutions begin this way, including our own revolution.

Be trendy and cool in your own way. And be new world and American that recognizes your own birth and responsibilities to continue on the new world way which you will define. In the mean time, growing corn in the desert and living naked in caves seems to be the ways we were pointed decades ago. What a waste, speaking for my kids, and grandkids who think all this is as silly as it is. We have a better way, and it is so American.