There is nothing wrong with looking at the "now"

by Catoosa, Wednesday, November 07, 2012, 22:03 (4345 days ago) @ Jhenry

Forty years ago I made a deliberate decision not to have children, mostly because I had some vague idea that the country was going to hell and I did not want to be responsible for bringing a child into a situation like that.

I really had no idea how right that decision would turn out to be. I recently read a book called "Black Elk Speaks". It was written in 1931 and is based on interviews with a Sioux medicine man who was born in 1864. He was there at Little Big Horn, and later at Wounded Knee Creek. In between, he describes how the plains indians were systematically stripped of their lands, heritage, culture, and ultimately their freedom, becoming hopeless wards of a government of foreign immigrants who considered them at best "savages" unworthy of even breathing room.

The white Europeans, (us) who did that, now face the same fate from the current wave of immigrants who want to take what we have built here. I guess it's karma, but it sucks.