In this episode of „Country Roads”, we take the back roads to keep out of the traffic — safety first, and that is already a basic for a good life. The trees are properly blooming and greening now, different from last week, the sun is getting stronger, there are more butterflies. But the woods are dry, really dry, and the ground needs water. A field along the way is not a field anymore — ground that used to grow food, now good for a parking lot. And the wind wheels are all standing still.
Then the talk goes deep and stays hard for most of the ride. We ask what is left for the kids if we change nothing, and what they are being shown in the meantime. We ask why a community does not react with more urgency to what is done to children. Life is real, not a game.
We talk about the republic: people in office have to look at things the way ordinary people do — use their own eyes, see what is actually going on, and then do the job so that it fits a republic. And the question is what a country is run for at all — a glorious economy that fills pockets, or a population that can keep the country going. Automation is replacing people and we are doing a brilliant job at it. A republic for machines works fine; it simply does not need human beings. If people go along with that, they are replacing themselves.
We say plainly that a government can do nothing without our support, and passivity is support. Nobody’s house was built by a man with a white beard in the sky; you built it yourself. One of us talked with a man from an Arab country who was crippled as a child and built his own house anyway — and it is exactly those people who are losing support now.
On religion: as a private practice, fine, live with it. Dictated over a society, no. It is not a matter for a nation, and no reason for the human race to slaughter itself over a war of opinions and beliefs. The Middle Ages showed where that goes. Pray in love, not in hate and not in war. Remember Easter.
And on money: a universal means of payment that makes things easier. What is happening instead is that it gets collected on one side while the other side has none — and then the country does not run anymore. Cooperation is not an idea, it is how nature works; we would never have got this far without it.
From this ride: back roads to avoid traffic, wind wheels all standing still, trees changed since last week, more butterflies, fewer birds than back in the day, the woods damn dry.
📺 Also available on Rutube and Youtube:
https://rutube.ru/video/be83690c591fc6f453f37ad3d33cf343/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDmkJWEVdfo
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