The US is one Giant Dysfunctional, Abusive "Family"
The Public Pays For the Sins of the "Father"
Another subway ride to Trader Joe's in Brooklyn where riders are still wearing masks after 2 1/2 years of a "pandemic".
I don't wish to be offensive but, the fact is, its mathematically impossible to NOT be at this point.
This society has deviated SO far off the course from health and nature there's NO way of avoiding even more pain and discomfort the longer people live in complacency.
It was clear to me since the 70s that those in "authority" were Not in my best interest. Whether intentional or not is irrelevant. They were harmful and my body was living proof!
It was so bad, my health felt so compromised I have been on high alert ever since.
What was worse; when my healthy body Knew and responded accordingly to the failures and harms by "authority", instead of receiving help, support and understanding, more abuse was added.
I was silenced, shamed, guilted and censored since.
This is why I relate so much to the USS Liberty attack survivors.
Their story is a micro of the macro and a macro of a micro of how the US has functioned for more than 5 decades.
I know I'm not the only one who has investigated and studied dysfunctional and abusive relationships yet, too often I feel that way.
I had no choice but to get to the bottom of what was going on.
The USS Liberty attack is the scaled up version of the Abusive family. Period.
A system that was inverted decades ago and has functioned as if its normal ever since.
Like a healthy family is supposed to function, authority is supposed to protect and be in the interests of those they're supposed to protect.
The Family has been inverted since because the country has been inverted.
Because those in "government" have sold the people out, function rogue, robbing the public, the public funding their abusers, the family caught that disease.
Rather than being aware of it, recognizing it decades ago and taking action to counter the collapse, the infection, much of the public adjusted to it and adopted the Might makes "Right", I have the Power I can Do whatever I want, Children are possessions to be owned, mentality of this Rogue Israeli Government, to some extent.
Without paying attention and Keeping fit, keeping connected to nature, health physically, emotionally and spiritually, valuing family, community and human decency the public allowed themselves to be groomed and seduced by materialism, conveniences, entertainment, food, drink which has done nothing but undermine their physical and mental/emotional health for decades. Now the bill is Due.
Being the one being compromised early on i had no choice but to be the one to have to say to others, "Come on, get it in gear. You're falling down on the job and its falling on me." And instead of LISTENING all they did was shut me up, gaslight me and treat me like I was some sort of alarmist.
Back in the 70s people had the attitude that nature and health were somehow limitless. There was No laws of cause and effect or consequences.
People lived in denial of reality and delusion that "this is a great country", "there's so much abundance", they could treat children's health like a blank check and get away with it.
Those around me denied the Real economy staring right at them.
For so many to be so disconnected from reality, be so ignorant to basic health, the physical and emotional NEEDS of children what else is everyone focusing on then?
For it to be so Normal for parents to need an Instruction Manual to know how to treat and raise children when it should be intuitive. It should have been passed down through the generations.
I cannot help but be so passionate about fitness all these decades in direct response to the blatant slacking attitude of what I lived since 1970.
I dug so deeply into how healthy relationships, healthy systems are supposed to function because of the Low Bar is the New Normal mentality I was surrounded by.
Not only was the "family" dysfunctional and slacking so was Everyone.
I was treated like my life didn't matter by the very people entrusted to protect it.
Now, I don't know about you but, I don't need to know whats going on in the White House all I needed to know was what was happening in my own house and street to know those in "authority" are not in your best interest.
People acted like parenting and childhood was optional, up for negotiation. There was No standard. No measuring; “Hey, you missed the goal, you fell short of the mark, you deviated”.
Have that reality acknowledged in order to be able to move towards the goal, better alignment.
But, that never happened. The attitude was, “I have the “power” I can do what ever I want”. “Authority” could do whatever they wanted, not without severe push back from me but, they did the same thing over and over and had nothing but excuses for never moving closer to improvement.
That’s not what the US is about. Not for many anyway. No concept of moving towards self mastery when it comes to one of the most important institutions there is,, FAMILY, PARENTING.
No one wanted to accept the FACT that this was it! You mess this up and that’s it. This is the Math. There's no cushion, no wiggle room like everyone pretended there was.
That you could just "get over it". Does anyone know how to do basic math?
That you could just walk around in TOTAL disconnect of Reality and just make up what ever you wanted was how it went.
We have been in a severe mental health crisis in this country for over 50 years.