No Skin In The Game V

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So if…? What…?

Before we go there, we made some significant changes at the beginning of the year at Wonder Springs. The decision was made to drop most, if not all, the commentating about the current state of affairs, and instead focus upon where we are heading, or might be heading. In the months and years ahead, putting this into a historical context, we, the United States of America, didn’t get in this precarious condition, because of Barack Obama, or George W. Bush, or any single president or congress for that matter.

To try to keep this discussion within the frame of reference that can be handled in weekly installments, rather than some bookish tomb, we use the 1960s as the date a national choice was made to begin this progressive slide to Gomorrah. Sodom carries too much religious baggage for the time in which the Baby Boomers began to come of age, but the linkage of both the Biblical cities is appropriate.

That decade began with the transfer of the presidency from Dwight D. Eisenhower, who I only remember for playing golf and bowling, other than that I think he was totally boring, to the Camelot of John F. Kennedy and Jackie. We have provided a link to the totality of Eisenhower’s final speech, mostly remembered for his warning about the then potential perils of the Military Industrial Complex, but the total context of those fifteen minutes seem to be as important today, as they were in January 1961.

A few years later I was in the wood shop, of Kettle Falls High School, taking a mechanical drawing class, when my dad, the high school principal, spoke over the intercom that President Kennedy, had been shot in Dallas. We then listened in disbelief, as the radio reports continued to be piped into every classroom.

Tags: Dwight Eisenhower, God, evangelicalism, USA, Christianity, Baby Boomers, Babylon, Wild Earth Society, Progressive Gnosticism, Collectivist Elitists, Laissez Faire Scoundrels