August 31, 2021

 

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Political Failure

In the news recently the evacuation of Afghanistan has been a tragedy for the military and the reputation the United States has as a world leader for freedom.  

In my opinion, the current administration has failed to protect its citizens and military in Afghanistan. I known that anything the government does is not perfect no matter which political party is in office.  But, this even in the eyes of the rest of the world is a complete failure, lives have been lost because of bad planning. I'm very concerned in the next few weeks it is only going to get worst.  The final day for evacuations is August 31, after that day anyone left behind will be on their own. America has never abandon there citizens.  My hope is somehow the two parties will come to an agreement about policies in the Afghan region. I know this is an extreme stretch of hopefulness but it is the only way.  The current political environment is not seeing the unfolding of a disaster that will ripple across America and making it a target to enemy's of the United States. I pray for peace and the safe return of Americans and those who helped the military during the war.    

Fear

 An emotion that could completely control you. It is normal to have it if not we would probably not exist because we would be going into danger and not thinking of the consequences of our actions.

I believe we have to understand our limits to this emotion and that takes courage. Courage and fear go together because one without the other could end in bad results.  Everybody's level of fear is different, it depends on your life experiences, your age, and your emotional fitness. Based on those experiences will indicate how we tackle fear. We need to keep all this in mind when we see fear in others. It might seem trivial to us but it could be terrifying to them.  I not sure what the answer would be to help those in fear without the courage element. I think just listen and maybe offer some our your experiences on how you deal with situations of fear. 

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Information Overload

 

The information we receive everyday day from all various platforms, like the internet searches we might use for the occasional questions to social media and on those rare times of an actual paper newspaper. 

At one time many years ago I believe the public would take whatever the TV news or the morning paper said as the absolute truth, mainly because we had no other way of verifying the information. But today we have an endless flow of information were we can do our own fact checking. 

Because we have a vast source of information at our finger tips we could literally check info all day long and probably never come to a conclusion on what is true or false. 

How to we work through this information overload?

We have to consider our own general education, for instance, if a news story has been release about quantum physics and if you have not had any formal education in that subject then you are probably not going to have a clue to what the story is about. Although you can do an internet search but by the time you even have a general concept of the subject it will be old news.

Next, we have to consider what is reasonable and this would have to be from our life experiences, education, and deductive reasoning which would work with the basic information and work up to a more specific conclusion.

All of this is necessary, because there is a lot of misinformation out and its leading people in the wrong direction.

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