Survival

In this first world that I and many of you live in, we have built systems to help insulate us from many of the base issues that threatened our ancestors.

Very few of us will be eaten by wild animals. Food is plentiful and available and largely pre-prepared (which can mean anything from pasteurization and packing - to cooked and made into a ready-to-eat meal. We are able to weather cold winters and hot summers much better and we have ways of communicating far distances - and on and on.

We built governments to help secure our livelihoods and regulate our getting along together - both to leverage the world as a team, a working and buying collective, built in services to help arbitrate differences and set up alliances to protect ourselves.

It's at this level of insulation from or original survival issues that we are caught off guard then by something that doesn't pay attention to any of the rules we set. That might be personal illness or of course Covid-19 that represents dire personal illness and an issue for our civilization.

The threat is multifaceted. But the biggest threat to us are the individuals that will take advantage of the situation for personal or political gain. That hamstring the systems we set up to protect us. By either not caring/intervening and planning but even worse, by taking actions that threaten the whole.

The Post Office - a seemingly first world service, but millions rely on for delivery of information, money, medicine and supplies - is under attack by the administration. They have been for years, but the opportunity to squeeze hard, close to an election is an act of treason. It's strangling the population for the benefit of a few.

The education system - by pressing schools to reconvene too quickly they are having to choose between federal funding (our money) and the welfare of those involved. Again, the administration is turning the screws against the well-being of most of us, using our own contribution to injure us and profit.

The social safety net - again our dollars, are being held back in order to keep a "pro=business" atmosphere to "incent" people to go back to work. In other words, keep them starving, so they don't have mobility and save the money to return to the rich.

The common good - is being exploited in separation, a set of propaganda released over the years to re-enforce going against our own needs for the benefit of the landed and wealthy. That supports not helping out businesses that are failing and the poor, because they are portrayed as leeches on the wealthy, through taxes. In order to stay in power, they are disabling the post office and closing polling places - again top force people to choose between their health and their prosperity.

I could go on, but the point is, when these systems fail to serve the bulk of the community, the nation, then they need to be attended to. The deliberate acts of sabotage to coral them for personal game are treasonous. They are against the good of the whole.

And that, is life threatening. Your risk of being eaten by a tiger is low. Your risk of being eaten by the current administration's inaction, self-serving action and policies, is high.

Call your congressperson and tell them the post office needs to be saved. That education needs to be funded. That the safety net needs to be deployed for all in need. We absolutely need to vote - but we need to act before November in order to get to November.

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