We’ve come to take New Year for granted, but imagine a world without it. It’s time to reset your life, your work, your relationships, your country and your soul.
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Can’t wait to see the Big Reveal!
I said this months ago and it bears repeating. Our biggest challenge going forward will be preventing the MSM and the Marxist Democrats in all institutions from gaslighting the American public into thinking that they never attempted to take over the country. “At this point, what difference does it make?” will be our biggest enemy. We need to keep the heat on as we open the world’s eyes to what they’ve done, which will be a challenge especially given the rate of technological change as a distraction while 5G becomes more prevalent.
It’s not a resolution unless you resolve. That is, you have to be serious about it and hold yourself to it.
I think it was on Michael Knowles show the other day when he had a guest who’s a comedian (I watch so much political commentary it’s getting hard to keep track of where I heard what and properly credit the source) where I heard said …
“The woke Left is simply a group of small-minded, bitter, angry, nasty, hurtful, hateful people who have found what they think is a legitimate excuse to be small-minded, bitter, angry, nasty, hurtful, hateful people.”
Seriously, I think that pretty much covers the whole problem with the Left in America.
That kind of person has always been with us. Prior to the internet and social media they were mocked, scorned and stifled by people around them telling them not to be such a dick. The internet has given that sort of people a voice disproportionate to their numbers.
You see this in other areas too, but to a lesser extent. Conspiracy nuts who say things like “The Pentagon wasn’t hit by an airliner on 9/11. It was hit by an American missile launched from a submarine to create a false flag operation.” “Ashli Babbitt wasn’t shot and killed by Lt. Michael Byrd in the Speaker’s Lobby on January 6th, 2021. She’s alive and well, she merely played a role.” “There are German NAZIs in a secret base on Antarctica plotting to take over the world.” “Lizard People disguised as human beings secretly rule the world.” “The world is flat.” Etc. These and many other absurd theories abound and can now be found all over the internet. Even in here at BillWhittle.com. Before the internet most people had never heard of this stuff and that’s as it should be. It’s ridiculous and in fact so preposterous that it deserves nothing but scorn and mockery. But it’s out there and if your mind is not firmly grounded in reality you can fall prey to it.
So it’s not surprising that the American Woking Dead would latch onto Leftist hatreds and racism. What’s surprising is that such nonsense has gained so much traction. Despite the fact that such voices are loud and persistent disproportionately to their real numbers, it turns out there are a lot more small-minded, bitter, angry, nasty, hurtful, hateful people in this country than anyone would have suspected.
However, loud and persistent does not mean powerful. They only have the power that the rest of us give them. Shallow, vain people are attracted to shallow, vain things like virtue signalling. When it becomes clear that there is no virtue and in fact the opposite those people will drop off the “movement” and move on to the next shallow, vain thing that comes along.
That’s just a simple cultural reality. As the drivers of culture in media realize their economic mistake in catering to a few loud and persistent small-minded, bitter, angry, nasty, hurtful, hateful people, as the phenomena of “get Woke, go broke” manifests itself economically, that ship will right itself by market forces.
Bill’s right. This is a storm not the norm. We will overcome this problem eventually. We need to position ourselves to win when that eventuality occurs or we’ll be right back in the toilet swirling down into the sewer with the next cultural fad. Whatever that might be.
I made a New Years Resolution years ago that I’ve stuck to religiously ever since. That resolution of course was to stop making New Years Resolutions.
In my family we have a New Years Eve tradition of staying home and playing a board game of some sort while we await the New Year. That way no one is on the road with a bunch of drunks and the cops who are looking for them.
At midnight we follow a Danish tradition of holding money in one hand and eating herring with the other. This is supposed to represent a year of plenty ahead. (Norse people are big on eating fish and herring is a pickled, preserved fish that was traditionally a part of the winter food supply predating refrigeration.)
My family has been playing scrabble at midnight for 25 years. It just evolved.
I’ve done it both ways, either out on the town or at home with my family, on New Years Eve. I like being home with my peeps a lot better than sitting in a noisy, stinking bar somewhere.
I also made a New Years resolution not to make any more New Years resolution any more years ago. …. But to change what I needed when I noticed, changed my mind, or it became necessary. Kept it; I guess about 4 years ago. Latest change about 3 years ago: lose weight. Down about 30 lbs, and still losing at about 1 lb per month.
That was uplifting and awash with hope. Thank you. That light at the end of the tunnel just got a little bit brighter.
Great vid, and excellent point Zo on how New Years’ resolutions are a form of idolotry – interesting way to look at it!
First of all – so glad we were able to bring Zo on board. These discussions are truly something cherished each week.
WRT Bill’s comment early on about nothing magical about the New Year, I give a quick story.
When I was much younger my parents took me along to a NY eve parts at some friends of theirs. All the families had kids in the same general age range: Old enough to behave too young to leave home. So there were probably 8-10 kids between 6 and 12.
We were watching Guy Lombardo and then all stayed up until midnight. When the ball finished dropping, I looked up at my dad and said “Is that it?”
He said, “Yep, what did you expect to happen? It’s the same as any other night when the clock hits midnight. Just an excuse for people to get together with friends and enjoy each other’s company.”
That has stuck with me for 5 decades. He told me how important relationships are and how being social is an inherent good in our lives. If nothing else has been sorely demonstrated the past 2 years, we are social creatures that need human contact to thrive.
New Years’ Eve will always have a place in my heart – this year’s will be the 12th anniversary of the night that Sister Babe and I never met. We met in March 2010, were walking around downtown when I pointed out the restaurant where I spent New Years Eve with my buddies. She stopped dead in her tracks – turn out she was there too. She and her friends had a table while me & my buds were at the bar, probably walked right by each other at some point.
In honor of the occasion, when we got engaged we made an announcement video in the style of the “When Harry met Sally” vignettes, making ourselves up as if we were 40 years older.
Cool story. Thanks for sharing it.
That is awesome!