Last week, Florida police pulled over some car at 4 AM on I-75. Something caught their attention.
So here were two kids (boy-10, girl-11)....brother and sister. Boy was driving the car.
After a number of questions.....police realized that the two were from North Port, Florida....about three hours to the south. They'd driven mom's vehicle.
What triggered them to 'escape'? Mom had decided that they were screwing up on the rules for their cellphones....so she took both away. Kids got peeved, and decided to leave.
No charges.
I sat and pondered over this.
First, it doesn't appear that they ever had a plan (something you'd expect out of Generation Z mental 'midgets').
Second, mom had reported the vehicle missing and the kids gone. Once returned, if they were my kids.....I'd have zero trust in them forever, and I'd have to take the battery out of the car each night....to feel 'safe' that they wouldn't get stupid a second time....locking it up.
Third, historically speaking....back in the 1970s, you might have had a kid or two locally that did some crap like this, but they always drove in circles....never more than ten miles from the house. These kids? No circle crap....straight line....leave the state crap.
Fourth, from school....I'd question their grades, and wonder IQ-wise...if they were on the low-level of things.
Fifth and final....the odds of them escaping a second time and getting to the Arizona border? Oh, I'd say 50-50. Might make an interesting TV series....'Escape from North Port'. Kids on the run.....might be rather entertaining.
In 1977 (out of high school), if you asked me how many people out of a 1,000 were activist-minded....I'd say one max.
Today? Out of a thousand, I would say at least a hundred are on some mindset daily, and another hundred will be in this activist role at least once or twice a week.
Even at some church meeting, or some bowling situation....you probably will notice some guy or gal who are on some talking-points agenda, and want to convert you (like some cult-status situation).
It's just an odd feeling.....sitting in a pancakes shop, or in a airport, or at some coffee shop overhearing folks do their activist 'chatter'.
If they are a relative....you probably will do your best to just grin or flip the conversation to UAPs/UFOs, or to the latest Disney crap-movie.
At some point, you might engage and offer blunt criticism or factual information, and in a matter of two minutes....you've destroyed the discussion they carried around (like some treasure-map they found). The problem then becomes.....they've become skeptical of just about everything, from that point on.
Rather odd society we live in today.
1. Homeless. You can probably say houseless, or unsettled. Trying to use the word 'outcast' or 'down-and-out'? Just gets you in more trouble.
2. Addict. Someone will correct you and simply say that 'Joe' has a drug-abuse-disorder.
3. Exotic. About half the people you meet today....if you were to use the word 'exotic'....would halt you and ask what exactly do you mean? They would infer that old fashion 'exotic' is not today correct to use for new fashion 'exotic'.
4. Insane. Yeah, you can't utter that phrase. You can say 'that guy is gifted' but you can't say he's insane.
5. Hooligans. Your definition of hooligans and the liberal mindset definition of hooligans....probably don't match up well.
The whole idea of Atlantis existing....comes down to the way that Plato was told the story in his youth....by his grandfather.
The grandfather? He'd sat in the presence of Solon, a older Greek guy who'd become a statesman in his older years. In his youth, Solon had been a traveler, and gone off to Egypt where he wandered into a temple.....getting a 'speech' by a Egyptian temple-boss....who spoke of Atlantis of the past (9,000 years ago).
So you are relying upon a story....told by three guys, over the space of fifty-plus years, an Plato remember all of the story in the context that each told the story, and putting this to paper.
This is my chief problem in the Atlantis story. Beyond Solon, there just isn't any mention anywhere of Atlantis.
Fictional? Partly true? Mostly true? Anyone's guess.
The Egyptian-temple-guy telling a mostly true story, but Solon making up fifty-percent to add to the story? Well....you just can't be sure of this.
My belief is that I'd like for the story to be entirely true....but having to rely upon three guys to tell the same story....is a pain.
Stupid text? Yeah, but you end up with wrestler Roddy Piper doing a 3-star job, and it's almost believable.
Getting some movie like this produced today? I don't think society would be able to handle it. Too many things going on and they'd be convinced that life is all a CIA-run experiment.
If you said it was just Elon and Clarence Thomas....well, that would be awful easy.
Course, they didn't say what was being served. If this was Olive Garden food....I'd just pass and leave the building.
