Most of us are familiar with the term “The Fog of War”. For those who may not be familiar with this term, following is a pretty good definition. “Nebel des Krieges (German) is the uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations. The term seeks to capture the uncertainty regarding one’s own capability, adversary capability, and adversary intent during an engagement, operation, or campaign. ” (Wikipedia). We want to adapt this term making reference not to a kinetic war, but to a political, philosophical conflict, attempting to remake America in an image not envisioned by the founders of our Nation. We call this “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”.
There are a lot of suggestions that have been put forward as to how one should more safely drive at night, or in fog as depicted in the short video above. In a more succinct rule, one should never out-drive your ability to see and to stop or avoid an obstruction safely. At night, never out-drive your headlights and your ability to stop within the range of your headlight beams. In fog, you should never drive faster than your ability to stop, or avoid obstacles, within the distance you can see ahead. In the video above, the driver was fortunate to have an emergency escape path on the right of the road. Had the conflict of traffic occurred five seconds later, there would have been no escape from a catastrophic and undoubtedly deadly crash. Our attempt in this blog is to relate the driving experience above to the current life experiences of most citizens living within our Nation today. Many in our Nation today are living in “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”.
In “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”, many of our Nation’s citizens are unsure of what lies all around them. Certainly there is an unawareness of what potentially lies ahead. It cannot be accurately seen or predicted. There are hazards just waiting to cause conflict, and potential ruin. Even though their gaze may be focused ahead, wondering what lies beyond the ability to see, there is without a doubt an inability to see or recognize what is to the left or to the right. It is though one is proceeding through life with blinders on, those flaps placed on the side of horses heads preventing their eyesight from seeing things that could startle them from either side, keeping them focused on the road ahead. For humans, peripheral vision is very important. Being able to see what is approaching from the side could allow one to be better able to make alterations in proceeding forward. To ignore what lies to the left or right in our life can deny one the ability to avoid a catastrophe in our path ahead. Just as in the video above, that driver had an escape path which allowed the continuation safely forward. There is also an unfortunate tendency to ignore what lies behind. True, one cannot drive safely forward by only watching the rearview mirror, but it has been provided in a vehicle as a reminder that hazards can also come from behind. We believe many in “THE FOG OF AMERICANA” forget what has happened before in our Nation. Many seem to live with a form of long-term memory loss. Many seem only concerned with what is happening today. When driving, do you recall the last major intersection you drove through? If your car breaks down on the road, do you recall how far you need to walk back to attain service? If you have driven in an unusual location, without navigational guidance, could you retrace your route to get back to where you started? What in the world does any of this have to do with living life in our Nation today?
Let us start with the view ahead. There is a need for us to spend time in rational thought to be as predictive as possible as to what may or may not lie ahead for us individually, or for us collectively as a Nation. This requires an analysis of the plethora of information and data that is available. Unfortunately, most of what is widely available is biased to form a particular narrative supporting the “woke” agenda, current government and corporate elites, and in conjunction with a mostly compliant media. To a great degree, these forces have been successful in helping to create and maintain “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”. In order to proceed safely forward to a successful destination, all sources of information and data needs to be incorporated to become best informed, to obtain the best possible outcome. This requires the evaluation of even that which is labeled as “miss-information”, as it often times contradicts the agenda of those wishing to control the narrative leading to their own desired outcomes. As we move forward, we need to do so cautiously making sure we do not out-drive our ability to see what lies ahead. Blindly rushing forward will only eventually lead to catastrophe.
Few things are more devastating in life as having been blind-sided by something we didn’t see coming. We are caught off guard, unprepared, and often permanently impacted by the effects. When driving, you should continue to scan left and right, not rigidly focused ahead. When approaching an intersection, do you look to the left and right to insure someone else isn’t trying to occupy the same space in the middle with you at the same time? When driving on a highway, are you aware of emergency lanes, or ditches and other obstructions that could hinder potential avoidance of on-coming conflicts? When it comes to the direction of our Nation, are we aware of movements, forces, agendas that are not in our clear view. In “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”, much is being purposefully hidden and obscured hoping that by the time they become apparent, it will be too late to make adjustments or even prevent altering changes to the core of our Constitution and Bill Of Rights?
To know the past is to better know the future. When we as a Nation fail to recognize who we are as a consequence of our past, we will be no better than a ship without a rudder, driven at will by the current of time, winds of change, and waves of force. When residing in “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”, many have succumbed to the idea that the past is irrelevant, destructive to know, something to be avoided, and something to be changed. Do you ever wonder who your ancestors were? How did they live? What did they do? What were their hopes and dreams? Have their dreams become our nightmares? If they have, why and how has this happened? There are a few in the “woke” minority that aim to re-write our history, in hopes of justifying their perceptions of today. In their attempts to do so, they are only recreating disasters that our Nation has fought to overcome in the last two hundred plus years. Without a clear view of what lies behind in our Nation’s history, we may be doomed to repeat it. As we look behind in our rearview mirror, we need to be reminded of what has come before, so that we will not repeat the errors of the past, but more importantly, be able to improve upon that which has already been conquered. Tearing down historical statues, breaking and re-writing well established laws, and altering processes and procedures that have been placed purposefully for our Nation’s protection and sustainability, all contribute to forgetting from whence we come, and if that happens, we will lose contact with the reason we left, and where we wanted to go. Our moving forward will have no purpose. Our Nation will end up in the dustbin of historical relics, failed experiments, and dashed dreams.
Why is it that so many of our citizens seem so satisfied to drive blindly forward? It is because so many are living in “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”. We believe many have been lulled into a state of lethargic satisfaction. While perceiving all is well within their narrow view or bubble of influence, being able to make due with the seemingly status quo, accepting the false premise that it is always better to “go along, to get along”, many will soon find the quicksand of a new reconstruction era is ever-consuming, and will lead to the demise not only of individual FREEDOM and LIBERTY, but also to the destruction of the same for our Nation, and for all who will follow us in life. We also believe many in our Nation feel so overwhelmed with the constant barrage of so many miss-managed national issues by our current government, that there is a tendency to simply shrink within one’s personal security space, and hunker down in hopes that it somehow will miraculously get better. It is long past time to drive out of “THE FOG OF AMERICANA”, and move forward with clarity of thought and vision. Only then will our Nation be safe and prosperous, and all it’s citizens enjoy that which has been given to us through the decades at such great cost . . . . our FREEDOM and LIBERTY.