When it comes to having eyes and ears that are open, and years of experience observing in volatile situations and participating alongside with boots on the ground, Michael Yon is someone whose thoughts I am willing to regard with respect and take into consideration. Today’s post from him brought the following prediction:
"PanFaWar: Pandemic, Famine, War — traveling buddies from Hell.
When one arrives, the other two soon roar in.
They also are recursive and incredibly unpredictable. Recursive in the sense that big pandemic leads to more pandemic.
...War is coming. And it’s not about sparks, but Conditions. Logistics are part of the higher-level matrix that is Conditions. Amateurs talk sparks. Professionals talk Conditions.
Production and Logistics are high-level aspects of Conditions...
And as Al Johnson Senior tells me from time to time, “Organizational structure dictates outcome.” Retired Army Colonel. This is one of those things that first time you hear it, truth of the statement flashes. Basically, we get the product of the assembly line we create.
The plant management has created an assembly line of PanFaWar components."
While I continue to hope and pray the two traveling buddies from hell will somehow be met and conquered on the road before they arrive, and what Yon is predicting, based on history and experience, does not come to pass; what plant management is creating is indeed a fearsome thing. Actually it goes beyond fearsome (frightening, especially in appearance) into the territory of willfully deceptive and destructive evil, a reality mentioned in an earlier post here this week. Evil that accompanies the taking of lives and the spilling of innocent blood.
Though I'm still mulling on what evil is and when a person is acting or reacting out of human hurt, need or fear, and when evil is involved, I currently go with the definition received from a mentor several years ago who said, "Darkness is an absence of light, knowledge, and understanding. Darkness itself is not evil. True evil interferes with the free will and the choices of another soul. Evils manifests when someone would end the life of another so as to take away their free will, or force them into an act or a situation where they have absolutely no ability to extricate themselves from it."
As an aside, the price of a shipping a container from China was halved this week to the $15,000 range (still double what it was pre-pandemic) by China, fearing loss of contracts and commitments for 2022.
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A major reason in California for this transportation problem was the law passed 2 years ago making it virtually impossible to be an independent contractor. Independent truck drivers make up a large portion of trucking. They put them out of biz or drove them out of state.
Michael Yon has seen it all and then some. As for evil when I was a kid I thought bumblebees were about as evil as it gets. When Michael was that age he couldn't go swimming down in Florida without the ever present threat of gators coming after him. And on dry land his older brother and brother's friend would beat the shit out of him every chance they got. When Michael grew up he killed a man in a bar fight with one punch. It would be interesting to hear his take on the subject of evil.
California has shot itself in both feet and is now working on disabling its hands.
Banning new sales of gas-powered small engines is a start in that direction.
While California takes on water up to its gunnels with its own peculiar set of self-induced port problems, other US ports are also dealing with overwhelming gridlock. Savannah's port pilots are reporting a back-up of ships at sea waiting to dock there, the likes of which they've never seen before.
https://www.wtoc.com/2021/10/14/port-traffic-creates-ship-backup-off-coast/
The all-around shortage of labor and equipment affecting ports, docks, warehouses, and transportation (before anything even makes it to the store) that is balling up the distribution system in a major way and getting worse. And that's without higher fuel costs added to the mix. Or more lost labor due to the vax mandate.
My friend who works in warehouse distribution and resupply is now reporting difficulty finding and buying used tractor-trailers. The few that do become available, are going for $30-40K, double and triple what they were a year ago.
I ordered his book, Dad Bones, thanks to your comment. I too would be interested in hearing his take on evil. I still don't know how to hold my own awareness and experience of that reality, wavering between uncertianty and undeniability. The bee to gator to bar bully sequencing mentioned fits my belief that one's perception and awareness of evil as a potent energy is influenced by exposure and experience, with unprocessed trauma providing an open door and place for that energy to roost.
For me, it's snakes that bring a visceral sense of repulsion, even with sons who were able to pick up and appreciate the harmless ones found in the yard. Snapping turtles are a close second--as they look like small dinosaurs, appear to function without an ounce of mercy, have teeth like razors, and are surprisingly fast on their feet. I've wondered what the early explorers from Europe thought and felt when they first encountered Southern Gators? What in their previous brushes with danger could have prepared them for that reality? Whilte rumors of Nile Crocodiles may reached their ears to accompany notions of sea serpents, they had to be one huge surprise!
The other post I came on this week that brought up evil, was this from American Greatness, by Debra Heine, on Dr Peter Breggin and his book, out Sept 20, "COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey". https://amgreatness.com/2021/10/06/world-renowned-psychiatrist-global-predators-fauci-gates-and-schwab-behind-the-covid-reign-of-terror/
She quotes the 85 year old doctor as saying, “In psychotherapy, we often see people who have been terribly, terribly abused by their parents, but they cannot face it. They can’t understand it. They can’t identify it as evil,” he explained. “They can’t say it was evil for my father to sexually abuse me, that it was evil for my mother to participate and go along with it.”
But it was evil, the psychiatrist said. “It was evil in the extreme when you see people who have been ritually abused,” he said, noting that there are many cases in which families have abused their children “in ritualistic fashion.”
“For the outsider, often, it’s impossible to believe that this even takes place because we human beings just can’t bear to look at evil,” he said. “We can’t bear to think that there are people out to harm us, and manipulate us. We can’t bear to think there are people different from us—people who actually take pleasure in injury and domination—literally pleasure from it, the way we might [take pleasure] from a hug.”
The doctor said that it was important to disabuse people of the notion that the pandemic is a result of bad luck. The terrible state of affairs throughout the globe is not the result of chance, he maintained, stressing that people need to stop questioning why policymakers are making so many counterproductive decisions.
“It’s time to face it and get rid of the idea that this is chance, or crazy, or bizarre, or makes no sense,” Breggin said...
...Breggin predicted that America will see its own French Revolution-style “Reign of Terror.”
“It inevitably goes that way until there’s either a fight back or people become so docile that they only need occasional examples of terrorization,” he said. “We have to fight back. I’ve never put it so clearly in my life, folks, but there’s no doubt about it. This is the situation. I’m not talking about violence. I think we first have to work ourselves up to see if we can do this with just plain dissent. Be like Gandhi, be like Martin Luther King, and take brave risks. I think that’s where we have to go.”
Evil is like a lot of other things.
You know it when you see it. And the excuse is often irrelevant.
Here it is, from real life awareness based on what filters through to me from people I know in my neck of the woods, to affirmation in yesterday's Financial Times:
The supply chain problems are more deep-seated than they look, and the critical factor at play is how quickly the new 24/7 measures may improve a complex supply chain network that has been strained to a snapping point.
As a recent Financial Times article underscores, “The US is facing a shortage of warehouse space and truck drivers, and shifting to 24/7 operation will require enormous co-ordination between the publicly operated ports and private sector groups, including large retailers and freight companies.”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/10/18/24-7-operations-might-not-be-enough-to-solve-the-supply-chain-collapse/
Yes also to edutchers life-based observation. More on that to come, as it led me back to Scott Peck's People of the Lie.
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