Great article, Dr. Malone. It brought me hope. We were made in the image of God—We are anything but sheep. And because we are God’s children we have been imbued with ample power to control our destinies and forge our own futures. But in order to do that, we must first emerge from the apathetic fire that consumes our lives, seize the helm of this ship we call the world, and steer her back to bluer waters.
I am reminded of the following:
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The Pessimism of Intellect:
Final words of 1984: He loved big brother.
The Optimism of Will
Lavos symbolizes oblivion, that great negation of which death is only a facet. Humanity succeeds in thwarting death in Chrono Trigger by salvaging the pieces of its scattered history and creating a new meaning, a new story, in the face of certain doom. In the process, Crono and his allies learn of humanity's birth from Lavos, its evolution to suit his needs, its death throes in the year 2300 and its total extinction at the End of Time. In the end, though, the most important time is Now . As long as the human capacity to dream and to will that dream remains, choice defies fate; and thus does life defy death. -K. Newton
We live in an old suburb of Paris, where the streets are a few metres wide.
Within 5-10 minutes walk there is available: 3 little to medium supermarkets and a couple of corner shops, at least 6 (maybe upto 10) cafe-bars and restaurants, 3 or 4 bakeries where you can get your fresh bread and croissants, baked on the premises, a clinic/medical centre, 3 schools catering for all ages up to 18 and various shops ranging from mobile phones to an old fashioned cobbler who will fix your shoes.
And the cobbler is really useful because shoes are the main form of transport.
We never had a car and do not need one and what we also do not have are any "mega" supermarkets on thousands of square feet, with huge parking lots.
"Modern" urban planning (like Chairman Mao unleashed on Peking for example) would see the narrow streets and little buildings demolished and replaced by multi-lane highways that separate non-descript high-rise concrete towers. The many little shops, cafes and bakeries (all independently run btw - not a chain in sight) would be replaced by corporate malls with franchises.
People would then be FORCED to buy automobiles and pay for gasoline, just for everyday subsistence.
Do we live in a "15-minute ghetto"? No. If we want to venture further afield, nothing could be easier. There are a few bus stops within the same 5-10 minute walk radius where several bus lines can take you all over. Within 10-15 minute walk (depending on your energy), is the metro station that can take you even farther, and faster. The main international airport (Roissy-CDG) is a 40-45 minute ride on the metro while the secondary (Orly) is 15 minutes on the bus.
Having lived in various parts of the world where I was forced to get into an automobile every morning for the most mundane of tasks, I am continuously grateful for life here and now. I recall once in a modern, "luxury", Bethesda, MD hotel, I had no option but to take the lift one floor up, to exercise on an electric treadmill in a gym, then had to take the lift one floor down back to my room, and the windows would not open so artificial air-circulation was compulsory 24/7.
Life in this older Parisian suburb is not "modern". It is pre-20th century when "modern urban planning" produced vast concrete wastelands that alienated people from each other, fragmented and destroyed local society and forced people into higher and unnecessary consumption.
Just a few miles away, into the truly "modern" suburbs, the automobile is king and neighbourhoods are dead quiet at night. They feel both boring and dangerous.
One of the other great advantages in living in an area like this, is that you actually know your neighbours and meet them daily while walking to/from the various places. Local society exists.
I am not sure about the "15-minute city" concept but sometimes it serves to look back, to help you look forward.
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For me it’s influencing the people around me to see what many would consider old fashioned values. Most of my interactions with younger people happen at work, probably because that’s where most of my time is spent. I know I have influenced many to at least look away from the internet life and try to use carpentry to not only make a living but build a future. In almost all rehabilitations of people, work and work ethic is a centralized issue. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. I think this is a good strategy when trying to influence the young. J.Goodrich
Having just spent a weekend in the more rural part of C’ville, our family can fully appreciate literally where you are coming from. Trad family life will survive as long as we seek what is truly grounded and grounding. Jefferson’s dreams of an agrarian-based American society are worthy of dusting off for future generations...
Aug 29, 2023·edited Aug 29, 2023Liked by Robert W Malone MD, MS
Excellent overview of what is going on.
Just one of the many thoughts I've had is the problem of over computerizing the family automobile.
Every aspect of the owning and driving experience of today's vehicles is controlled by computers, from the time you touch the door handle to when you park and exit the car.
One tiny glitch in those circuits can make that technological "wonder" nothing more than a very expensive doghouse (If you can get the door open) that even the most tech savvy technician cannot fix.
I believe that a vehicle devoid of the computer would be a huge success if someone had the wherewithal to start a company to build them.
Aug 29, 2023·edited Aug 29, 2023Liked by Robert W Malone MD, MS
Mentoring a 16 YO on how to safely and properly handle a chainsaw (I only have 4), helping our elderly neighbors…My Wife said, “He idolizes You” Response = He’s a Dang Fine Kid…He is a Darn good carver/whittler, i.e. I’m learning as well…You wanna build treehouse? Meaning of Life. 😁🔥🏴☠️, Ed
Choose life. " I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, love the Lord your God, obey him, and remain faithful to him." Deuteronomy 30:19-20a
We live in a small city. We are surrounded by farm land. A 1/2 hour south east is a ski resort, a 1/2 hour west is a reservoir, a 1/2 an hour south west are beautiful mountains for camping and fishing. We have the out door fun 1/2 hour away . There are hiking trails just above our house that hike into the mountains. We live in a great place. There are time I still miss living on the family farm. But my community has a lot of great people who live here. You can still ride your bikes through the neighborhood, the kids play night games in the Summer. Life is good here. It drives me crazy to think about the nonsense these evil men want to put on us.
At 76, I confess: Sometimes I sit at the "grownups" table and sometimes with the "kids". I thoroughly enjoy the conversation at both "tables", as a listener and a participant.
I also enjoy sitting alone. I'm not bad company -- the result of a "Trad" childhood during which I was often left to my own devices. On a typical day I ran wild, barefoot, through heaven-knows-what, that I had to scrub off with sand before I showed up for dinner!
A thought: It is sad when your own company does not sustain you and you find yourself reliant on the attention of others, (including social media and AI.)
Get to know yourself and then get over yourself......like every other living thing, you will be offered continual opportunities to grow and learn.
Healthy traditional family life is the bedrock of every shining and thriving civilization. Western educational and governmental policies have been systematically attacking the family for some time, and our societies now bear the sorry fruit of that campaign.
Re:Cabrini Green. If you thought that was bad you should have visited Altgeld Gardens. An old army post hidden south on the DanRyan expressway. I went there to write up a health insurance plan for the only grocery store. As I entered the smell was so disgusting my stomach turned over. If I had not known politicians care little about poor black people, Altgeld Gardens brought it home. Of course Cabrini Green was just west of the lucrative downtown area. As land prices increased the residents were told they would find them a better place to live. Politicians tore down Cabrini Green and replaced it with townhouse s selling for $500,000 and up. The promise of a better place to live was subjected to the suburbs willing to take them in. Many ended up in Englewood. Sad ending. I mention this because it serves as a warning. $$s run our politicians. Don't trust them.
Popped on PBS last night for the BBC news, first time in months, Fauci was interviewed on the new Covid variant. He said he’s not concerned because 96% of community has been exposed and has protection, not worried about hospitalizations and death….then he went on to say very worried no one will take the vaccine coming out 25 Sept for the variant that’s circulating now because they’ll be cavalier citing previous infection or immunity. The grave seriousness of the BBC reporter would only hear gloom and doom, why not ask “but you just said the opposite ….” Or “how can a vaccine weeks after the virus is spreading help? And isn’t it always mutating so this cocktail will be out of date?” https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66643426
YouTube policies in place and other censorship locking in to prevent common sense questions. Be on the alert and stand firm, I will use Fauci’s own words with deceived loved ones to show vaccination is unnecessary
Despite the Evil on flagrant display these past few years, Humanity still has amazing prospects ahead. It is hard to believe this when people are deluged with fear porn and tyranny. It is much easier to believe the doom and give up and GIVE IN to the negative crap. We must resist this, and everything else they try to force on us that We Know is immoral, awful, and against God's wishes for us. Resist.
You, Dr's Malone, are doing the next greater thing: Leading in a positive direction. Thank you and God Bless you for doing this, for using your voices to say these things. All us parents need to hear these things and we need to live positive lives for our children. Peace to all.
Great article, Dr. Malone. It brought me hope. We were made in the image of God—We are anything but sheep. And because we are God’s children we have been imbued with ample power to control our destinies and forge our own futures. But in order to do that, we must first emerge from the apathetic fire that consumes our lives, seize the helm of this ship we call the world, and steer her back to bluer waters.
I am reminded of the following:
---
The Pessimism of Intellect:
Final words of 1984: He loved big brother.
The Optimism of Will
Lavos symbolizes oblivion, that great negation of which death is only a facet. Humanity succeeds in thwarting death in Chrono Trigger by salvaging the pieces of its scattered history and creating a new meaning, a new story, in the face of certain doom. In the process, Crono and his allies learn of humanity's birth from Lavos, its evolution to suit his needs, its death throes in the year 2300 and its total extinction at the End of Time. In the end, though, the most important time is Now . As long as the human capacity to dream and to will that dream remains, choice defies fate; and thus does life defy death. -K. Newton
We live in an old suburb of Paris, where the streets are a few metres wide.
Within 5-10 minutes walk there is available: 3 little to medium supermarkets and a couple of corner shops, at least 6 (maybe upto 10) cafe-bars and restaurants, 3 or 4 bakeries where you can get your fresh bread and croissants, baked on the premises, a clinic/medical centre, 3 schools catering for all ages up to 18 and various shops ranging from mobile phones to an old fashioned cobbler who will fix your shoes.
And the cobbler is really useful because shoes are the main form of transport.
We never had a car and do not need one and what we also do not have are any "mega" supermarkets on thousands of square feet, with huge parking lots.
"Modern" urban planning (like Chairman Mao unleashed on Peking for example) would see the narrow streets and little buildings demolished and replaced by multi-lane highways that separate non-descript high-rise concrete towers. The many little shops, cafes and bakeries (all independently run btw - not a chain in sight) would be replaced by corporate malls with franchises.
People would then be FORCED to buy automobiles and pay for gasoline, just for everyday subsistence.
Do we live in a "15-minute ghetto"? No. If we want to venture further afield, nothing could be easier. There are a few bus stops within the same 5-10 minute walk radius where several bus lines can take you all over. Within 10-15 minute walk (depending on your energy), is the metro station that can take you even farther, and faster. The main international airport (Roissy-CDG) is a 40-45 minute ride on the metro while the secondary (Orly) is 15 minutes on the bus.
Having lived in various parts of the world where I was forced to get into an automobile every morning for the most mundane of tasks, I am continuously grateful for life here and now. I recall once in a modern, "luxury", Bethesda, MD hotel, I had no option but to take the lift one floor up, to exercise on an electric treadmill in a gym, then had to take the lift one floor down back to my room, and the windows would not open so artificial air-circulation was compulsory 24/7.
Life in this older Parisian suburb is not "modern". It is pre-20th century when "modern urban planning" produced vast concrete wastelands that alienated people from each other, fragmented and destroyed local society and forced people into higher and unnecessary consumption.
Just a few miles away, into the truly "modern" suburbs, the automobile is king and neighbourhoods are dead quiet at night. They feel both boring and dangerous.
One of the other great advantages in living in an area like this, is that you actually know your neighbours and meet them daily while walking to/from the various places. Local society exists.
I am not sure about the "15-minute city" concept but sometimes it serves to look back, to help you look forward.
For me it’s influencing the people around me to see what many would consider old fashioned values. Most of my interactions with younger people happen at work, probably because that’s where most of my time is spent. I know I have influenced many to at least look away from the internet life and try to use carpentry to not only make a living but build a future. In almost all rehabilitations of people, work and work ethic is a centralized issue. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. I think this is a good strategy when trying to influence the young. J.Goodrich
Having just spent a weekend in the more rural part of C’ville, our family can fully appreciate literally where you are coming from. Trad family life will survive as long as we seek what is truly grounded and grounding. Jefferson’s dreams of an agrarian-based American society are worthy of dusting off for future generations...
Excellent overview of what is going on.
Just one of the many thoughts I've had is the problem of over computerizing the family automobile.
Every aspect of the owning and driving experience of today's vehicles is controlled by computers, from the time you touch the door handle to when you park and exit the car.
One tiny glitch in those circuits can make that technological "wonder" nothing more than a very expensive doghouse (If you can get the door open) that even the most tech savvy technician cannot fix.
I believe that a vehicle devoid of the computer would be a huge success if someone had the wherewithal to start a company to build them.
Call me a Luddite if you will.
Mentoring a 16 YO on how to safely and properly handle a chainsaw (I only have 4), helping our elderly neighbors…My Wife said, “He idolizes You” Response = He’s a Dang Fine Kid…He is a Darn good carver/whittler, i.e. I’m learning as well…You wanna build treehouse? Meaning of Life. 😁🔥🏴☠️, Ed
Choose life. " I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, love the Lord your God, obey him, and remain faithful to him." Deuteronomy 30:19-20a
Dr. Malone
Thank you for this. I am going to try harder to teach my grandchildren about the good things in life. I am glad you are doing well. JJ
We live in a small city. We are surrounded by farm land. A 1/2 hour south east is a ski resort, a 1/2 hour west is a reservoir, a 1/2 an hour south west are beautiful mountains for camping and fishing. We have the out door fun 1/2 hour away . There are hiking trails just above our house that hike into the mountains. We live in a great place. There are time I still miss living on the family farm. But my community has a lot of great people who live here. You can still ride your bikes through the neighborhood, the kids play night games in the Summer. Life is good here. It drives me crazy to think about the nonsense these evil men want to put on us.
Amen.
At 76, I confess: Sometimes I sit at the "grownups" table and sometimes with the "kids". I thoroughly enjoy the conversation at both "tables", as a listener and a participant.
I also enjoy sitting alone. I'm not bad company -- the result of a "Trad" childhood during which I was often left to my own devices. On a typical day I ran wild, barefoot, through heaven-knows-what, that I had to scrub off with sand before I showed up for dinner!
A thought: It is sad when your own company does not sustain you and you find yourself reliant on the attention of others, (including social media and AI.)
Get to know yourself and then get over yourself......like every other living thing, you will be offered continual opportunities to grow and learn.
It's not just about you....got it?
....then go out to meet the world!
Healthy traditional family life is the bedrock of every shining and thriving civilization. Western educational and governmental policies have been systematically attacking the family for some time, and our societies now bear the sorry fruit of that campaign.
I didn’t know you went to northwestern med school - me, too!
Thank you for the great essay!
God bless you, Dr. Malone.
Re:Cabrini Green. If you thought that was bad you should have visited Altgeld Gardens. An old army post hidden south on the DanRyan expressway. I went there to write up a health insurance plan for the only grocery store. As I entered the smell was so disgusting my stomach turned over. If I had not known politicians care little about poor black people, Altgeld Gardens brought it home. Of course Cabrini Green was just west of the lucrative downtown area. As land prices increased the residents were told they would find them a better place to live. Politicians tore down Cabrini Green and replaced it with townhouse s selling for $500,000 and up. The promise of a better place to live was subjected to the suburbs willing to take them in. Many ended up in Englewood. Sad ending. I mention this because it serves as a warning. $$s run our politicians. Don't trust them.
Popped on PBS last night for the BBC news, first time in months, Fauci was interviewed on the new Covid variant. He said he’s not concerned because 96% of community has been exposed and has protection, not worried about hospitalizations and death….then he went on to say very worried no one will take the vaccine coming out 25 Sept for the variant that’s circulating now because they’ll be cavalier citing previous infection or immunity. The grave seriousness of the BBC reporter would only hear gloom and doom, why not ask “but you just said the opposite ….” Or “how can a vaccine weeks after the virus is spreading help? And isn’t it always mutating so this cocktail will be out of date?” https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-66643426
YouTube policies in place and other censorship locking in to prevent common sense questions. Be on the alert and stand firm, I will use Fauci’s own words with deceived loved ones to show vaccination is unnecessary
Despite the Evil on flagrant display these past few years, Humanity still has amazing prospects ahead. It is hard to believe this when people are deluged with fear porn and tyranny. It is much easier to believe the doom and give up and GIVE IN to the negative crap. We must resist this, and everything else they try to force on us that We Know is immoral, awful, and against God's wishes for us. Resist.
You, Dr's Malone, are doing the next greater thing: Leading in a positive direction. Thank you and God Bless you for doing this, for using your voices to say these things. All us parents need to hear these things and we need to live positive lives for our children. Peace to all.