In everything that we do, we must keep the long term in mind, acting as if the consequences of our actions are ever-lasting: such a perspective naturally draws us upwards, towards beauty.1
— Iliade Institute
Note: This is a chapter from my book, I’m Nobody. Who Are You? Can We Save the World? I’m posting it because of what I wrote at the end.
When I published this book in February of 2023 I found it hard to be hopeful, to feel optimistic about the future. The stolen election in 2020, the lockdowns, the so-called vaccines that caused death and injury (and still do), the invasion at the border and so much more seemed to make our task of returning to real freedom and traditional values almost impossible.
But today there is hope.
Look, I know there will be tough times ahead (there always are), but this last week has been a very, very good start and makes me hopeful for our future, the future of our children, our country and even the world.
Why Write this Book?
So why am I writing this? What have I, a nobody, got to say that hasn’t been said a thousand times by a thousand different somebodies? What the hell am I doing?
I’m not completely sure.
What I am sure about is that I want to help. I want my son to live out his life experiencing the freedoms that I’ve experienced for most of my life. I do not want to see our country (the USA) or our world descend into tyranny and totalitarianism.
Maybe you don’t think that is happening. I doubt I can convince you otherwise. But it looks to me like that’s where we’re headed if we don’t stop it.
It’s a real question: Can we save the world?
I don’t know.
I’m not really sure what else to do to help beyond what I have been doing: writing about the madness, not getting vaccinated, not following the draconian measures as they come out and speaking out when I can in addition to living my normal (at least as normal as it can be) day-to-day life.
Is that enough?
If it is, it doesn’t seem like it. The craziness appears to be progressing forward: vaccines are still being pushed, some schools and businesses are still requiring vaccinations, draconian laws are passed, elections are not trustworthy, vaccine deaths and adverse reactions are ignored.
I do not feel at home in my own country. I don’t feel at home in California, the state of my birth and where I have lived for most of my 60 plus years on this earth.
A lot of what I read online, mostly, but not only, in comments, is that we are doomed. The powerful forces orchestrating all this are so entrenched that there is not much we can do about it.
Maybe they’re right. Maybe it is a lost cause and the best thing we can do is prepare to live and fight against what we know is coming.
That may be the case.
But I don’t like that. I can hear you loud and clear: “It doesn’t matter if you don’t like it, that’s the way it is.”
I don’t care. These are unprecedented times, so I will not rule out unprecedented good taking place. The Berlin Wall came down almost overnight. I thought that would never happen, but it did.
Almost all decisions and plans, whether good or bad, have unintended consequences.
You move to a new house, but your new neighbors are terrible.
That can work the other way too. The globalists and elites have implemented and tried so many terrible things in the last three years that we do not yet know how many good, unintended consequences from these events there may be.
So, I am still hopeful and I’m asking the question:
Can we save the world?2
Notes
Iliade, Institut. Guardians of Heritage: The Iliade Institute’s Call to Action. Arktos Media Ltd., 2024. Kindle edition. p. 45.
The Inmate, I'm Nobody. Who Are You? Can We Save the World?, The Asylum, 2023, pp. 25-26.
Terrific post! We are always co-creators. Better to aim consciously than fret endlessly.
I haven't written it up properly in my stack yet, but this puts me in mind of a medicine wheel ceremony in Ga..given by Hyemeyohsts Storm (who was invited by various governments to create the wheels for peace) Everyone was instructed to sit on the floor in the middle of a gym. He came in unannounced, looking like an old construction worker and paced quietly around the circle (I thought he was old and wanted to delay getting down on the floor)
When he started talking, there was a hush as we realized he was the teacher. He pointed out the people seated in chairs along the wall...an elderly couple, a person in a wheelchair and a woman on crutches w/her knee bandaged from a recent surgery (me). He told the 100 or so people on the floor to take special note of them, saying "These are the most important people in this room. In our tradition, they are known as the 'seated ones'. They may be elderly, infirm, or young, as you see, but when Creator sits a person down, they have embarked on the most potent chapter of their lives. They are praying your future into existence."
From my perspective at the time, I knew that God had knocked a leg out from under me to get my attention, to redirect me along those lines. The truth of that hit home. I am sad that our older people think only of themselves, having 'fun' and spending their children's inheritances rather than building the future and passing on the experience. 25 yrs later, I do think this is the most potent time of our lives and it should not be squandered. So I heartily agree with your post...maybe be less tentative