The Philosophy of Communitates Datum

 In Latin, communiatates datum translates over to meaning gated communities.

Whether you agree with the idea or not....I would suggest over the next forty years....this philosophy of gated communities will expand out, and roughly 10-percent of America by 2060....will live in a gated city, a gated down, or a gated suburb.

Chief reason?  The general denial of most people to settle on expectations and lack of political stability.  You could have a fine mayor or a fine governor....but if the attorney general of the state, or the chief prosecutor of the city won't really do their job, or the judges just grin and look the other way....you end up with approved chaos.

Back around eight years ago, there was a statistical review, and it was believed that around six to nine million Americans lived 'gated'.  If I were guessing today, it's probably closer to fifteen million living 'gated'.

For roughly twenty years of my life, I worked in the Air Force, and you got a fairly good taste of gated-living.  You passed an ID at the front gate, and within that 'land', you generally felt safe and the odds of robbery or assault was almost one-percent.

In areas like Atlanta today, your safety/stability view is probably only around seventy-percent....meaning that you continually look over your shoulder and keep a firearm in anticipation of trouble.  If you live around Baltimore, your safety/stability view is probably closer to forty-percent.  Don't even bother bringing up Detroit or Chicago. 

You may argue about the philosophy, but people are making judgement calls, and looking at the best way to survive.  

Equality on Holidays

 Since Juneteenth has been passed and now seen as a federal holiday for blacks....the question arises....what about the other folks?

Hispanics?   Cinco de Maya.

Indians?  Gandhi Jayanti (2 Oct).

Indians (Natives)?  4th Friday of every October, American Indian Day.

Irish? 17 March. St Patricks Day.

British? 26 December, Boxing Day.

The odds that at least three additional holidays will be 'forced' over the next five years?  I'd give it better than 30-percent odds.  

The Problem of Unequal 'Rewards'

 The first award I think I ever got in life....was a complete school year accomplished with no missed days (somewhere around the 6th grade).  You got called up to the front of the auditorium by the principal....getting a certificate of some type.  There might have been one or two kids out of each class that got this.  To be honest, it wasn't that big of a deal to me....I wasn't exactly aiming for this.  I think I accomplished another one of these before I graduated from high school.

When rewards did come in the next thirty years after graduating high school....they were for odd things.  Some rewards were on paper....some involved cash-pay-outs....some were days-off from work....and some simply were a paid beer.

Rewards were never equal....at least in my mind.  

I've noticed this trend over the past five years....a lot of hype over the unequal nature of rewards.   People seem convinced now that everyone should get rewards, and they ought to all have some equal level involved.  

In some schools....I think if a kid just showed up five straight days in school.....he'd probably get a certificate for that act.  

The value of this reward revolution going on?  I think it hurts society a great deal and cheapens the effect of rewards.  You might as well give a reward, for getting a reward.

What Are Weapons You Typically Bring to an Insurrection?

 Well.....pistols, knives, bayonets', machetes, shotguns, axes, rifles, tanks, canons.

If you were bringing bottles of water....flags....apples (for nourishment), or maps?  It's not really an insurrection.  

So the more this insurrection chatter goes on....the more childish the whole discussion becomes.

Discussing Disparity

 This week, I watched a YouTube video where a couple of folks talked to some degree about economic disparity.  You had a pro-economic disparity and anti-economic disparity representative....with a neutral person or two.

So the basis of this argument revolves around this....X-number of people live healthy, well-to-do lives, and Y-number of people live diseased (sickly), meager, destitute lives.  As you can imagine....it's not fair.

I paused over this argument (occurring about ten minutes into the discussion), and the rest of the chatter didn't really matter to me (I muted it).  

The basic problem with this discussion is that you would want to invent a want to take (tax or steal) the wealthy folks accumulation of cash, and just redistribute....in anticipation that ten to twenty years later.....everyone would be even.  Being over sixty and having met a ten-thousand-odd people on both sides of this problem....I can tell you that for each 'loser'....there's probably seven winners or marginal-winners.  And for each 'loser'....the majority of them (if just given the cash)....would be unable to develop the skill-set to be on the other side of life.

I worked with a guy who'd been given around $100k from Grandma's will, and spent around eighteen months developing the skill to handle money on his own.  Four years later....through a good sense of investing....the $100k was worth almost $750k.  

I worked with another guy who'd been given $25k by a will situation, and the whole amount disappeared in a matter of four months.

I worked with various individuals with drinking issues, and it didn't matter what the Air Force to stabilize their lives and halt the drinking.....the problem continued.  In one case, I figured the Air Force spent nearly $50k on treatment situations over a four-year period.....finally grasping that the guy could not ever get ahead.

The problem with the economic disparity crowd.....they really want to 'save' everyone and make the world an enormously happy place.  These are people who've never been to the Oakhaven area of Memphis on a dark night.  These are naïve people who don't realize the level of problems and how money doesn't cure your ills.  And these are people who feel that the crowd who got ahead in life....ought to be responsible for the 'losers' (when they really don't feel that sense of owing someone).  

Observations

 1.  What happened to Jussie Smollett?  It's like he totally disappeared.

2.  What happened to Hunter Biden?

3.  Juneteenth ending up as a holiday?  Well, there's hype it may happen.  The Latino crowd?  They are openly discussing 5 May (Cinco de Mayo).  Would we give up two of the present holidays? 

Personally, I think we ought to have 365 holidays on the calendar.....to honor a lot of things (even Halloween and Ironman's birthday ought to be a national holiday).

Border Story/Fantasy

 In roughly two weeks, Donald Trump is scheduled to visit the US border (Texas).

Pressure now building for VP Harris?  I would say that her planning team is now sitting there at least four hours a day, and discussing how they could get ahead of Trump, or how to downplay Trump's visit.

The fantasy scene I could see playing out?  There out of the brush...walks six Hispanic kids....having crossed the border, and here is the Texas Governor and Trump.

Trump reaches into his bag and pulls out six ice cold waters and offers them up to the kids.  Headline for the next day?  Trump saves kids! Yes, it would be that crazy.