“Keeping the story alive”
Today we live in a world where the freedoms that our ANZACS fought for are being steadily and alarmingly eroded, especially that of “freedom of expression.” Our Judaeo-Christian foundations are being mocked and traditional family values increasingly cast as outmoded. President Reagan in his famous inauguration speech said, “Freedom is a fragile thing and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.”
The Fog of Covid
The term “fog of war” applies to the experience of individual soldiers in battle, it is ever present on all battlefields. It is often cited as the pure confusion of direction, location, of friend and foe, with perspective being consequently lost on the battlefield. Officers and soldiers become separated, orders become confused and subject to revision with poor communication resulting in a continuing uncertainty, a perceptual "fog."
We are facing our most dangerous threat since WW2, and it is not Covid
1930’s revisited
History has a habit of repeating itself, a century ago, in the mid 1930’s, Germany was facing an enormous crisis, unemployment was around 30%, the country was experiencing hyperinflation and major political unrest. This crisis produced a political climate ripe for revolution. Democratic Germany was about to become a dictatorship.
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