“Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are probably right.”
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There is an old saying that whatever is in the well comes up in the bucket, and if you pay attention to people, you will find out how true that is. What is also true is that what you say is what you tell yourself. In other words, you are not only giving up what’s in the bucket but also refreshing the bucket with what you say.
It is apparent that there is definitely something ominous happening in modern-day American society. Aside front the statistically supported woes like rising crime, inflation, and other growing economic and financial hardships, there is the unmistakable, and unavoidable degeneration of unity, morals, and the general feeling of decreased security among the American populous. With constant discussions [arguing} about rising energy costs, food shortages, wars, proxy wars, overspending, rising debt, bank collapses, etc., it is hard to imagine a good outcome for the country. In fact, one of the most common phrases today is that “It is going to get worse before it gets better”.
The epitome of the defeatist attitude is to think that things must get worse before they get better. Why bother with applying any regenerative measures if we just need to wait for it to get worse, right? If that’s the case, then how far down is the bottom before we bounce into the better direction? In other words, how bad does it need to get? Maybe, just maybe, it’s bad enough now? Do we really want to see how bad it can get before we decide to bounce from the bottom of the pit?
The “worse before better” perception is a cousin to the “need to hit rock bottom” mentality as well, and they both come from the same places, one of them being the endless barrage of “expert opinions”. Not to go back to the ‘block the accuser’ points, but it is very important to understand how things get into the well; and also that “expert” opinions are still opinions and are usually in one way or another designed to manipulate your opinion.
Being self-governed doesn’t mean freedom of opinion, but it does mean not being governed by opinion, among other things. Self-government means that the owner of the well, and the bucket properly moderates what is in the well, and what comes up the bucket. That means that whatever is in the well has a foundation to it, and therefore the bucket doesn’t bring up baselessness, which is what opinions are, baseless.
Foundational and Regenerative are the same thing because they come from the same place. That place is where all things truth and good stem from which is the Bible, and is also where our founding principles come from. Not only did our principles come from God-fearing men, but so did our Constitution. The Constitution of the US is the schematic for how this Republic of ours is supposed to run, and if no one knows what it says, or the Principles it should be interpreted through, then the Republic doesn’t run, walk, or crawl, but dies. Why do you think the founders warned us that we need to stay informed?
Speaking degeneration, or “get worse before it gets better”, is the product of being uninformed, and easily manipulated by the “experts.” When this happens or takes hold of society, it is two-fold deathocratic; first that it causes the individuals to defer responsibility, and second that it incites acceptance of political and societal corruption.
Yes, it is that simple. Speaking recovery, or regeneration means speaking the truth, and calling wrong what it is. It is simple but not easy because the foundation of what is right or wrong, good and evil isn’t always known to the one giving their opinion, and that is what got us into the mess that we are in now.
Regeneration is not the same as being positive but is required to start in the positive direction. Positivity is not acknowledging the mess, but only the opportunity. Regeneration takes responsibility for the mess and seizes the opportunity to clean it up.
It will get cleaned up; the question is by who? We should hope that is us, and not rock bottom.