Now that I'm in a place where people leave each other alone and some of the good 'ole American values still exist it really feels like I'm in my own Gulch. It gives me a different perspective. I deleted myself from any social media because it felt like I was staring into Nietzsche's abyss...watching people I care about having their lives falling apart, acting stupid and airing it all out for the world to see. Now, I see California in real crisis mode. Happy to see the Tribal Rangers smashing a stupid local roadblock to Burning Man the other day...that made national news because the rest of the country found it so shocking. Here we just chuckled. I see one of my favorite places in Hawaii burn down while they turn off the water, block people from escaping the inferno, starve the survivors, then build a fence around the whole town, not letting anybody in. Nobody will get punished for that, just re-elected. I can see the open border. Can see the the children getting trafficked in. Can see the (should be illegal) makeshift covid experimentation lab operating near Fresno, with a bunch of live and dead rodents, run by Chinese nationals who are getting favors from the Governor who will likely be our next President. They've switched to open, approved gain of function in the middle of California and that story's already dead. I hear that Biden says this next "booster" will be made mandatory for all Americans. The media isn't running with his comments. They're likely waiting for the next maniac from California to take the office of Pres, the guy who will resort to violence. He's going to be the American Trudeau . Rights are being crushed in America. Mangled. Nobody's stopping it. My new fishing boat arrives soon. I joked today maybe I'll throw my cell phone into one of the local lakes from it. Funny how things look when you really step back...