INTO THE ABYSS 183a

LIFE IS A GAME OF CONNECT THE DOTS, IF YOU DON'T CONNECT ALL THE DOTS OR DON'T CONNECT THEM IN THE RIGHT ORDER YOU NEVER GET THE PICTURE INTO THE ABYSS 183 a About two years ago, I discussed my time in the military, talking about honor, discipline, morals and courage. Actually almost ten years ago I had distilled a phrase, " there is no honor, without courage, no faith without honesty, and no knowledge without study". But then, it is what it is. I used to watch the old cowboy movies, read western novels, there were always talks about honor, and fairness and treating people right. I have watched the "Godfather" series probably half a dozen times, the last couple of years the only TV I have watched was "Breaking Bad", and "Better call Saul", now if you want to learn about honor or justice these are the shows that you can learn something from. How do you learn anything about "character" or "morals" from "gangland", you can though, if you pay attention, you cam also learn about loyalty, honesty, fairness and justice. The real life today is not as far from these as we believe, near the end of episode 5, season 5, Frig and Mike are talking, Mike brings up the issue of "who is right" between to gangs of drug dealers. Who is right? When a drug dealer supplies drugs and gets someone hooked we call him a criminal, but when a company sells alcohol or cigarettes, or oxytocin they are billion dollar "businesses" and they can visit the White House and be honored by the leaders of our nation. We have higher taxes on beer than $2000 bottles of wine, who cares. We get in trouble as a nation when we call the same thing moral or immoral depending upon who is doing it. We accuse others of the same delinquencies that we laud our own about. How can we make progress when we call the same thing right and wrong at the same time. In my estimation all politicians are crooks, at all levels, and we do not recognize this fact we are in trouble. I WILL WRITE MORE M. N. R. 05 JUNE 2022