January 1, 2025 – Is This the Beginning of Something Very Dangerous?
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Happy new year to you. I hope in 2024 you found some things of value. Perhaps, like myself, you were both dismayed by what happened but also motivated. As I’ve discussed in a previous Audio From A Collapsing State, moments of immense danger and rising authoritarianism have a tendency to bring clarity. 2024 was certainly a tough year full of heartbreak and struggle, but within it I certainly discovered things about myself and my life and the world at large that now stand to anchor me as things get tough.
But now we’re in 2025. And the clock is ticking.
For a decade I lived in the state of Georgia, and every couple of years a system would form in the Atlantic. Word would get around quick. People would huddle over maps and forecasts, wondering if the storm would make landfall and rip through our town. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn’t. When the path took shape and my town was in the crosshairs, something strange happened. There was a focused calm. You had to get ready, after all. That meant getting supplies, readying your house, putting things away. Preparing yourself for what was coming.
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