DEREALIZATION

  Apparently, Oak Island has moved to the internet, or at least its concept of digging for treasure, legends, whatever rocks one's boat. I love discovering new words and terms, at least for me, and then applying them to life as I see it, especially in these majorly weird times. Strap yourself in for a fun ride through the new lexicon of the times. Discover how well these terms fit into the jigsaw of modern-day life. Even right here in good old CVWPB.

What is derealization? It is a fancy term for what we already knew existed, only now a new word has been coined and all is right with the world. I wish! Defined as " a disorder sometimes associated with trauma, in which people think their surroundings are not real."  You tell me if this is such a new, world-shattering term. How many of us wish we could do that, have done that at times? There are times that we need to deny the reality we find ourselves trapped in and engage in mind games. Does it work? Perhaps, for some, for a time, but eventually reality does rear its ugly head and grows its roots.

Many of us have wished for at least a tad of derealization over the past two years. We retreated into a new reality, within our homes, within our minds and the outcome for most of us is not so good. Yes, many discovered new interests, created new realities and perceptions of reality, real or not. At the same time the reality of the outside world simply crashed and continues on this trip into a black hole of a reality which has never been as threatening since the mad days of MAD attitudes of the Big Powers. And here it is again.

Local stops first on this crazy cracked trip of ours as we venture into derealization more and more. Did we ever think that we would have as governor a person who has definitely bought into a new reality, a fascist one, for our country? Did we ever expect to have shortages of food items, manufactured products, and whoa!!! prices for new and used cars? 

Did we ever expect that our way of life here in the Village would be under attack, not from outside developers wishing to cram the county with homes, but from within. People who have benefitted from the way of life of the Village are now attempting to wrest it from us, grasp it in their hands, and basically, in a new reality of their making, toss us out. It forces or imposes a new, ugly, unwanted, unfriendly reality upon us, one that will actually destroy too many of us. That new reality is hostile to a way of life for which we worked lo through many a working year. 

There are ways to deny the derealization planned for us here in the Village. Mostly, it is the same medication applied to all boo-boos of this concept; it is participation, the opposite of "passive investment". Yup, another new one on me this morning. It is when one invests in something that depends on others doing the heavy lifting. Well, that will not work here. 

We must roust out all those passive investors within the Village, explain why their voices need to be added to our growing chorus of vehement opposition to the requested planned changes within the Village. They need to send messages of opposition, aim it at the Commissioners. We need to point out the hidden dangers these changes, if allowed, would create within the County itself. We need to point out the track record of the group wishing to create a new reality within the Village, one that has no place for us within. We need to send   postcards or email a form of it to Don Foster at UCO. We need to, must show up in force, in huge numbers, to the hearings, demand that we be seen, be heard, that the Commissioners understand, in reality, what a negative decision, no changes allowed, will mean for thousands, literally thousands.  A negative that will be a positive.

We must take that same activism and apply it to the ever growing, threatening new reality, the derealization of what we wish reality to be. We need to defend our country from its enemies - within and without. Frankly, despite all the tension re Russia and the crazed Putin who would love to be crowned Tsar of the resurrected Russian Empire, despite all that, despite China and its growing pains, our true enemy, enemies, are to be found within the very fabric of our government. We have had too many alleged traitors, even a treasonous, deranged President and enablers. Derealization has gone way too far, eaten away at our foundations for democracy, weakened it to a most dangerous level.

Passive investment will no longer work. We must be active, proactive, if we are not to lose it all. Living in a new reality, in a 'new normal' is not acceptable. Living in that hostile reality, adopting derealization as the go to cure for all the angst, the dangers, the hostility, will not do either. Not here, not in the state, the country or the world.

Like it or not, we have to defend our dreams of the 'golden years'. No one else will. It is upon us. Let us vote for those who will defend our attempts to live in a reality that is acceptable, in fact, required. IT IS UPON US. Get your delegates to vote for those within the Village who will defend our way of life. Vote for those outside who wish us to remain a democratic Republic, not a sham, not a country split into fragments, a 'Europization', if you will, a negation, of us. That cannot be allowed. It must not happen. Request your mail in ballot and mail it in, in enough time that even our oh so unbelievably slowed down post office will get it there on time, in time.

No derealization; only a realization that it is incumbent upon us to fight for our reality, here in the Village, in the County, in the State and for the Country at large. Squelch the foes. Stand proud and determined. Uphold an American tradition.