What sense did this PRII-CR (Protest, Resistance, Insurrection, Insurgency-Coupe/Revolution) attack make? What is its relevance to your life, your families, and the future great, great families to come? What would it take to have a significant impact, to be more than normal, to shake your security, change your orderly routine - even the now COVID routine, make life more uncertain than before?
Are you one of those who are well off enough that you can wait out the storm? Or, are the one who lost their business, had their property burned, their goods stolen? Or, perhaps you lost a loved one. Possibly you can no longer acknowledge this because you are out on the street?
What can this mean to each of us? It means that in whatever position most of us are in, it can get worse. It can reach out and touch us like never before. That individuals, groups, organizations and internationalists have conspired to collapse the working systems of the country, to overload them, to render them ineffective, to leak information, and push resistance, to be the underground, pushing for the destruction of the constitution and the concept of law and order. That your privacy is invaded, with people and systems monitoring your every desire, expression of thought. That control, compliance, retrebution, and removal is the new way.
Could it make you hyper anxious - like knowing the possibility that the stock market could crash and taxes could be imposed on you at the same time? Or that maybe your house is now going to be to expensive to live in? Or, that you will be threatened for thinking in a certain way, doxed on the internet, and may lose your job as well? Is this a possibility, probability, or a potentiality? Is there some point you are fearful enough to wake up and project the possible future with you and your family in it?
Will you pretend it is not happening, head in the sand? Or, have you developed a plan, alternatives in case of this or that? Prevention is no longer a path. Action is required? But where, how, doing what?
Simple things. Ask yourself what do you believe in? Specify those values and virtues. Find out who you are. Ask if what you see is compatible with what you find yourself to be. But, first, ask if what you see, and what you are told are real, not a made up story. For we live in an age where nothing is quite true and nothing false is all false, it is the age of information, you see, not knowledge.
What if we made a score card, one with all the simple things we believe in and value. What if we judged politicians by what they do, not what they say? What if we hold them responsible?
What if we do the same for the media? Keep score. What did they get right, what was not, what was misinformation, disinformation, or a lie for any other name? Wait, what if that is the media's real job to begin with?