01/08/2024
Let’s be honest, people: politics has little to no effect on our personal lives. We just use political agendas as a crutch to support our own egos.
Social media companies, entertainers, and large corporations are the real leaders of this country … most of Washington, D.C. doesn’t even know how to properly navigate computer operating systems. There are millions of individuals out there under the age of 21 who will have or already have created computer algorithms that have flipped this world upside down and have full control over the information we see.
I urge individuals to let go of political interest and start focusing on building families and developing long-term healthy relationships with people. I love you all, and may God bless you all.
I have no idea of the author. But I’m convinced, having accidentally seen his remark, that he’s touched on two important realizations: corporate leviathans — BlackRock being one of them — control the world, and there’s nothing any of us latter-day, digital-age, media-inundated peasants can do about it other than reduce, as much as possible, our contact with them.
The advice I’d add, therefore: get offline later today, go outside and, say, go up a hill and watch the sunset. Take a loved one with you.
You will quietly meet with God.
By Steven Yates July 26, 2024 [Author’s note: due to a minor hardware issue I wasn’t able to get this article out before now. And as the saying goes, time and events march on. Biden ended his campaign for reelection and endorsed Kamala Harris, who, if she became president,