Originally Posted by
David A. Rowe
I think you're a young Italian guy, and I don't think you understand the context. I'm not looking for anything from you on this board. I've done my homework, and I've been around and seen things.
It is entirely factually that the United States needs nothing from the rest of the world for resources than rare earth metals. I know more about this, but I can't entirely talk about it because I can't parse all the things I know that I can't legally talk about without review since I have a human brain. I'm not being hard on you as some others are because I'm willing to let you be a young Italian guy and accept your limitations and mine. I make mistakes all the time, so it would be dishonest for me to judge you too harshly.
I just don't care, at all, about the past anymore beyond what could inform the present to prepare for the future. I'm pretty sure I have a good enough grasp of where the world is headed right now, I've done what I can with my meager means to prepare for it, and I'm entirely focused on paying my bills, loving my family, and doing a good job with what little I can affect in my day to day life. I've largely quit the thread because I don't personally find value in learning that Bill Gates bought more farm land, there's yet another study on the vaccines, or that Biden crapped himself in front of another world leader (figuratively or literally). I'm just not mad about it, anymore. I've moved on. I also devolved as much I could to bedrock in order to work forward, and I realized there are a lot of fundamentally deep things wrong with just about everything out there. When there's that much first order stuff that's gone completely sideways... who am I to come up with actual solutions for that?
The world sure acts like it wants to kill itself, and so since I can't do anything to stop it... I'm just not worried about it anymore. I'll keep doing what's good and right, regardless, and I'm certainly going to sleep well at night while we still have running water, internet and air conditioning.