GPS DENIAI

  It seemed there is nothing that man can invent, that man cannot defeat. GPS, that magical tool that has robbed us of our ability to read a map, let alone to fold a map, that has led us to lose our instincts as to where East and West are. North and South, as well as the instinctive knowledge as to where we are heading. 

These days the first thing we do upon entering a car is to enable GPS or Waze, yet another routing adviser. So now the first thing that nations under attack do is to turn off the GPS system and hence the attackers are lost, not knowing up from down and right from left. However, unfortunately. this leaves the Home Army almost as equally in the dark. wandering in the 'wilderness' along with their foes.  

However, one of the most dangerous uses of GPS denial occurs when the system is disabled at airports, leaving pilots flying literally by the seat of their pants. Quite a frightening scenario, for so many younger pilots have learned to depend upon instruments and robotic directions, and when they are gone...  

Think of other pilots in our lives who have been denied GPS or taught to rely on   malfunctioning ones dispensing incorrect, dangerous routes. However, there is one more warning emanating from the fading beeps of another GPS system, quite a critical one too. Perhaps the most important one of our lives. 

We have sadly lost the GPS system for living the right way. for turning away from the wrong. We have, for years now, been following directions and/or commands to take the eminently wrong road and by the time we realize the errors or our ways, if we actually do reach that point, it is too little, too late. and, folks, here we are.

Welcome to the world roaming sans directions in an ever more complicated universe. Pay your money and take your seat to watch the most frightening spectacle ever. Brought to you by the eternal sponsors: Hate and Greed.   

 Anyone reading the news or catching it in varieties of the media, apart from those willfully deaf and blind to the truth of today, would and should have despaired of the world we have created. Indeed, we do not know where we are and refuse to internalize the truth which reveals to us in bold headlines as to exactly how we did arrive here, so distant from what was meant to be, where we are supposed to be rather than at the stations and levels we are at our shameful present. 

In fact, we are at one of several levels, most of which bode no good for us at all. Some are Denial Station, refusing to see that which is playing out before us, at ever faster and more destructive manner. Others are at the Inertia Station, almost paralyzed in their fog and do nothing other than live a shadow life, basically meaningless and noncontributory in any positive manner. 

Others are at the Delighted Station, glorying in the ugly proliferating tide of nastiness and crime and criminals now queuing up for seats in government from top to bottom and back again. The filth, the immorality, the ugliness, flows freely, non-stop and is almost impervious to attempts to slow it down, let alone to halt it. 

Need proof? All over this nation see the sad truth. The convicted felons. cheaters. the immoral perverts. the most prominent convicted felon happily pardoning others of his ilk. The perversion of the structure of our nation, put into play by those in the highest seats of power, all to benefit themselves, their families, their cronies and abettors whose desire for wealth and power are far off any chart of fairness and sanity. This world of fog and obscuring clouds, of persisting denial of truths and embracing of lies, is all meant to deceive and delude. Far too successful for those in yet another station.  

That is the Station of the Concerned. Those who are motivated to effect a change for the better in this woefully embattled nation of ours. It is, unfortunately, lacking in the numbers of people. who must commit to fighting heartbreaking, challenging battles. Battles worthy of the dreams and efforts of many Don Quixotes. There is a growing awareness of the true State of the Union and a corresponding louder rumbling in the towns and cities of this nation. But is it too late? Ate we beyond the point of no return? 

It is said that one must center oneself in order to move forward on an even keel in life. To live a life contributory and productive. To tend to the right, to the good, and stay away from extremes on both the Left and the Right. Extremes forbode no good, and, are in fact, two sides of the same coin.

We can easily see how far we have wandered from the centering so desperately needed both in our personal and national lives. That which was centered both orally and by concrete deeds and actions, in visible format has been hijacked by the extremes who wish to change, to reformat it into their own image. From entryways and porticoes to stairways and surrounding areas. From moderation to excess or wrongful denial. From tradition and history to wild fluctuations, the nation has lost it center, individually and as a nation. 

We have chosen to work with broken GPS. Totally dead or full of misdirection. We need to find those who know how to repair the damage. How to reboot the system in positive manner. And most important, to ensure that such a breakdown is never ever to return. Whatever it takes to avoid that must be put in place. A sense and understanding of the best of traditions and history. Education as to public service and its importance, the respect deserved by those who truly fulfill their responsibilities.   Educate adults as well as children re true patriotism, national pride, along with the values that serve mankind: equity, justice, humanity. Seek the high road rather than the low one.

In our yesterdays there was a slow but steady centering. 

 In our todays we have gotten lost.

For our tomorrows - we are in dire need of correct GPS in working order.

Who will provide that GPS?

It should and must come from within us.

From us.

On us.

Always on us.

A;wys opn us.