Love & Money

  In some ways that's the totality of the American life.  It sums it up.  Having lived that truth most Americans don't freak out about that.  The pettiness about it goes on forever, and the two things rip apart and build the world 24/7.  So for the president of our "corporation"--USA to suggest buying up "real estate"...it's not as "weird" as it may sound.

  As thinkers we've been thinking about "poverty" and "wealth" our whole lives.  It's the obsession of this lifetime.  For those with money there's the freedom from the prisons that chain to trying to get the money.  But for those born into poverty and can't not be on the poverty side (the dollar bills don't fix the kinds of damage the destructions of poverty reap) it's not just a real estate deal.  It seems like, I don't know, there's a lot of mentality involved. 

  I don't have confidence that we can ship or transport a mentality to far-flung places with their own ethnic strife and destructions.  Even if some of us rise to an altruistic equality of love and respect amongst all people, or on paper (in the language of "money") we deem something or someone destroyed, do over, there's so much involved.

  But, on the other hand, what?  A government doles out the bread?  Or there is no bread?  It's not like "aid" hasn't been contending with this forever.  It's, the president's assertion, is not "bad" but more like an acknowledgment or admission I guess.  Gaza, like many places in the US and elsewhere, is plum broke.  In terms of humanity, a mentality of being American...get the money, get the money...may be the best, most practical.

  Over here when life and money destroys we find something "to love"/care about whether its place or whatever and that can be expressed--love of country, love of life's work--especially by example and that part of mentality can be "shipped".

  In WWII Americans showed up to liberate.  All of the world had been fearing Communism, didn't know much about Islam, and was dumbfounded by the mixture of hate as/at the root of ideology mixed with weaponry, and since then we identify nasty tyrants and bad influences.  We also assess factors of death, disease, and disaster.  Money gets managed well or poorly.  And different U.S. administrations have differing "plans" of operation.  All of it requires the peoples' time and energy.

  We don't want to "typecast" and "write off" chunks of kinds of people.  But, just monetary aid doesn't always liberate.  And we've all experiencef what happens when a foreign entity gets into an existing mix.  In WWII there was quite a bit of confusion-days when the U.S. was liberating from Germany, German occupation and aggression, but, for example Italy was still Italy.  An Italy with Allies.  We can call politics just how people think of things, but nation is more than property and service.  So we have to talk in terms of working the program and essentially "getting on the band wagon".

  Somewhere in that is contemporary "work around" to sieged and sieging.  Factors produce starts and stops to a nation's consistency.  And "dropping the ball" disrupts and creates the opposite of trust...like hurt and anger and jealousy and more failure.

  President Trump has the ability to think big picture and long-term, but that's never going to be "miracle" working.  He's introduced a potentially liberating idea.  The amount of building anew from destroyed is astounding.

  It's the same here in WNC.  And in California.  And in Ohio--devastated by drugs over the decades.  It's why people talk about "family now" and having to re-establish painstakingly forged community networking and generational "wealth".