Collapse…….
break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
It does not take one long to see the similarities. After a fair review of the available writings describing the first steps of friends, fellow soldiers, and countrymen away from one another, heading north and south, and into the U.S. Civil War, what began as a stab of a rumor, became a complete gutting of our national personality. We cannot assume that our problems will be solved by ‘others,’ much as Robert E. Lee remarked, “certainly men of reason will step in and end this chaos.”
break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
It does not take one long to see the similarities. After a fair review of the available writings describing the first steps of friends, fellow soldiers, and countrymen away from one another, heading north and south, and into the U.S. Civil War, what began as a stab of a rumor, became a complete gutting of our national personality. We cannot assume that our problems will be solved by ‘others,’ much as Robert E. Lee remarked, “certainly men of reason will step in and end this chaos.”
If we are in the early stages of an economic and cultural collapse, it can be assumed that we will be the last to know how 'real' it really is. This is not about panic. This is a time for conversation. Yes, we should be talking with each other about our lives. What do we view as essential to our “pursuit of happiness,” and what can we eliminate in order to reduce our need to provide for it.
The soldiers huddled together in groups, separated by home states. They would eventually agree to return home to fight and kill the very men they stood with just months before. They would defend an imaginary state line and an ideology that they had been inoculated with by politicians, by stabbing their bayonet through the chest of those who, “thought differently.”
