I know, it sounds dreadfully complicated and in the end, what have you got? You work and sweat and strain to make a buck to keep food on the table and a roof over the head, and while you’re digging to get out of the hole, all these violent assholes who want to destroy everything around you are filling them back in.

If you understand that it IS a war, and that you ARE the victim, you’ll be able to deal with it enough that you can at least carry on working at your job every day or night or both, while at the same time, skillfully ignoring the growing threat of civil disorder and political unrest.

Like I told them back in 1861, “If you don’t cool down, there’s going to be trouble.”, and sure enough, there was that four-year Unpleasantness that ended up worse than it began, and the same thing happened again back in 1941.

Frankly, I’m tired of warning them, and so I don’t. I make copper chains. That’s what I do, but it isn’t ALL that I do. Continue reading →