The Safe and Secure Path to Another Dark Age (Pt I)

What leftists continue to propose, are policies guaranteeing a “Safe and Secure” Path to Another Dark Age.

O say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave, o’er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?

Greetings my fellow Americans! I thought it important to note that the word brave is the very last in our national anthem, as we pause and reflect on how we, as a relatively free nation, have been able to achieve so much against those who claim that they have the map for the one and only path “forward” for the safety and security of the whole of humanity and the perpetuation of the planet on which we reside, and insist that everyone else follow it. While there is a significant theological aspect to this collective courage, I will save that facet of this introspection for a Sunday pop-up, and instead ruminate on some of the specific discoveries and achievements of mankind which never would have happened had someone not forsaken personal safety and security.

Let’s start with something basic, like food: How many people took extremely ill and/or died sampling strange vegetation in the simple pursuit of edible fruits and vegetables, and likewise with strange animals and before the discovery of methods to start fires? Speaking of fires, how many were injured or died while learning how to spark those initial flames, and containing and controlling them? How many starved or froze to death before they realized that they had to feed those flames to keep warm and cook multiple meals? And how about water? How many were lost before people could readily identify potable sources from poisoned or poisonous ones?

OK, those are extreme examples compared to our current-day technological advancements, though with ever-increasing “supply-chain shortages” it will be interesting to see how many can return to those basics if push comes to shove and the survival instinct kicks in. So, let’s move along the timeline of history to colonization.

Man’s gradual inhabitation of this planet (which we have been told for decades now by “experts” is why it is in danger of being destroyed) was made possible by those with the courage to venture beyond the confines of their known world to find out what may lie outside of it. Most in those early days grew up under the cultural belief that the Earth was flat, and that straying too far from what only could be seen from one’s vantage point would be certain death from a fall off of one of the “edges.” Theories evolved which suggested that a round and more continuous planet surface may actually exist, but they were just that—theories—before someone risked life and limb to prove their truth.

As new lands were discovered and charted (by both eastern and western explorers), many perished, as the wrong ways to reach them were exhausted, and the hazards of weather and terrain were unsuccessfully surmounted. Those who managed to return shared their discoveries, prompting others to use the experience of those trailblazers (and the additional gained through the perils of those colonists who preceded them) to move beyond their own safety and security. Countless souls were lost as these pilgrimages to previously unknown areas of what is now commonly understood to be our globe commenced and continued, despite the risks of death or permanent debilitation.

As the human population spread, so too did the inevitable conflicts which would arise as people from disparate points of origin and cultures would lay claim to the same habitable areas. Many again perished fighting for the territory for which they had already sacrificed much to reach, inhabit and cultivate. (Aside: Some of these battles have undoubtedly been more just than others, but I’m going to avoid that rathole here for the sake of brevity. Suffice it to say that humans were involved in every instance, and on both sides.)

Mass colonization led to an explosion in agriculture, which again involved much risk, with often little or no reward, as people learned what would or wouldn’t grow in particular areas and climates. Even when these were presumably understood there was no guarantee that a given crop would, in any given year, produce sufficient yield to feed those for which it was intended, and starvation from poor weather and/or soil conditions was (and remains) a constant threat.

Technological advancement, meanwhile, accelerated greatly (especially in the western world) as people invented tools to improve their farming abilities, and better ensure consistently sufficient crop yields, enabling a shift in focus from mere survival to easing the difficulties of basic human tasks. Initial and ever-improving methods of plumbing, heating, electricity, transportation, communication, housing, and medicine (much of it originating in the relatively free and unregulated America) have brought us to the lifestyle into which most of us alive today were born and have enjoyed, and now take for granted and/or believe we are entitled to have by virtue of doing nothing more than being born.

I embarked on this cursory walk through human history to highlight just how far we’ve come as a species in having dominion over the earth, how none of it would have been possible had people before us been willing to forsake their own safety and security to pursue such progress and advancement, and as a springboard to a discussion of how we are at risk of losing much of it at the hands of those who seek to have dominion over us. More on this in Part 2.

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