Oh yes nuclear war is completely impossible and doesn't exist because Putin shows restraint. You never test your own biases and don't care about Ukrainians who are going into the meat grinder against their will because everyone else in the west prevented negotiations or talks. You support a war you don't have to fight or have any stake in.
Wonderfully written. We completed a 50 state road trip couple years ago, the America I grew up in no longer exists. Mostly its a hollowed out imitation of what was once real, and now a tourist attraction; lumberjack shows where loggers once worked, walking tours through urban decay, and Dolly World showcasing "real" southern heritage.
Beautiful essay. This is the same for me, only substitute Nebraska for Colorado. You are correct. The rot is everywhere. The loss is real. Our children will never know what we had. We can try to maintain and rebuild as best we can, but it only goes so far.
Thank and I'm sorry to hear that. We need drastic measures to either completely reset the system from the top or to pull out of the system... No maintaining. Legacy is meant to be forged anew out of this death and not held in a stasis to uphold international commerce.
That is pretty impressive that your grandpa got a full ride scholarship for the Huskers!
I am from originally from Gothenburg in Dawson County. I assumed you grew up in Lexington since your description of the meat packing industry and with African migrant situation fit so well with that town's demographics.
My wife and I lived out of state across the country for the last 10 years and we finally moved back to Buffalo County so our sons could be closer to their grandparents. It still doesn't feel quite like home yet, or at least how close knit the community was when I grew up.
Thank you! It breaks my heart what has happened to Nebraska. Colfax county had the same thing happen with meat packing plants and at first it was swarms of Mexicans they brought in. The Africans are newer.
Nebraskans are more reserved and very kind people, but more of us need to start speaking up and pushing back against the invasion and tv driven mainstream necon "values".
No, this is about a small town in Colfax County where most of my family is from though I do have one set of great-great-grandparents from Saunders County.
My grandpa was the team captain of the huskers (he was much younger in these pics) and got a full ride sports scholarship for football. Are you from NE?
>> At this level all civilizations enter upon a stage, which lasts for centuries, of appalling depopulation. The whole pyramid of cultural man vanishes. It crumbles from the summit, first the world-cities, then the provincial forms, and finally the land itself, whose best blood has incontinently poured into the towns, merely to bolster them up awhile. At the last, only the primitive blood remains, alive, but robbed of its strongest and most promising elements. This residue is the fellah type.
If anything has demonstrated the fact that causality has nothing to do with history, it is the familiar "decline" of the classical, which accomplished itself long before the irruption of Germanic migrants. The Imperium enjoyed the completest peace; it was rich and highly developed; it was well organized; and it possessed in its emperors from Nerva to Marcus Aurelius a series of rulers such as the Caesarism of no other civilization can show. And yet the population dwindled, quickly and wholesale. The desperate marriage-and-children laws of Augustus—amongst them the Lex de maritandis ordinibus, which dismayed Roman society more than the destruction of Varus's legions—the wholesale adoptions, the incessant plantation of soldiers of barbarian origin to fill the depleted country-side, the immense food-charities of Nerva and Trajan for the children of poor parents—nothing availed to check the process. <<
~ Oswald Spengler, The Decline of The West, Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06
we need to clean up our toxic wasteland. that takes work and people committed to achieving it. trump wants to abandon all environmental rules. sorry potlicis is in the air. everywhere.
While democratic sell out politicians only focus on things that create no real change and still allow money to be funneled into mass agriculture creating the toxic run off in the Platte I talk of. Environmentalism hides real environmental issues behind bullshit to create a false dichotomy and false environmental position.
Localization will do what regulations can't... Also liberals pushing us closer to nuclear war most definitely isn't good for the environment.
JUST SAYING, if in fact you are environmentally concerned with our state of our water and habitats---
BIDEN promoted 2 bills that can reduce the US greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50% from the level of 2005: the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Build Back Better Act.
OBAMA
Clean Water Framework
Released in 2011, this framework recognized the importance of clean water to the economy, environment, and communities. It also emphasized the need to partner with states, local communities, and stakeholders to protect water quality.
Updated drinking water standards
Clean water regulations
In 2015, the administration announced a new clean water regulation called Waters of the United States, which applied to about 60% of the nation's bodies of water.
Water efficiency and management
The administration issued Executive Order 13514, which set goals for reducing the amount of water used by federal agencies.
Everglades restoration
The administration invested $1.5 billion to restore the Everglades, including restoring floodplains along the Kissimmee River and completing the first mile of bridging for the Tamiami Trail.
Water Resources Reform and Development Act
The administration signed this act into law, which addressed drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, and more.
SUPREME COURT
Wetlands: The court ruled that the CWA does not apply to wetlands that are not continuously connected to larger bodies of water. This means that many waters that connect underground are no longer protected.
Ephemeral streams: The court also excluded from protection streams that only flow seasonally.
Federal jurisdiction: The court's decision may limit the federal government's ability to enforce environmental regulations.
The CWA prohibits the discharge of pollutants into "navigable waters" without authorization. The term "waters of the United States" is a key part of the CWA, establishing the geographic scope of federal jurisdiction. Before the Sackett decision, the CWA was understood to protect most surface waters, including wetlands, lakes, oceans, and streams.
TRUMP
The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules.
President Trump is particularly focused on rolling back policy to address climate change.
In addition to deregulatory actions to support the fossil fuel industry, of nation’s core environmental laws that ensure clean air and water and protect sensitive lands.
Greenhouse focus in and of itself is a complete psyop because they create overly complex bills that slip a bunch of other shit into them to continue to allow international oligopoly domination. It's like the same companies putting pink ribbons up instead of taking carcinogenic stuff out of their products.... It's hot air. If you actually read all these bills they do a lot more than create a need for authorization to pollute while also doing nothing to localize. Mass agriculture is inherently an issue, pharma owned GMO companies aren't getting any less money or polluting any less they can't stop run off without stopping their use entirely.
not pushing closer to nuclear war. Putin is using as he goes around invading thte countries around him, in every way he can. I support freedom and democracy in Ukraine. so far every read line of putins has been a bluff. and so is the nucler thing. thats trump talking, who is a putin whisperer....
Oh yes nuclear war is completely impossible and doesn't exist because Putin shows restraint. You never test your own biases and don't care about Ukrainians who are going into the meat grinder against their will because everyone else in the west prevented negotiations or talks. You support a war you don't have to fight or have any stake in.
Wonderfully written. We completed a 50 state road trip couple years ago, the America I grew up in no longer exists. Mostly its a hollowed out imitation of what was once real, and now a tourist attraction; lumberjack shows where loggers once worked, walking tours through urban decay, and Dolly World showcasing "real" southern heritage.
Thank you. I agree, the life force has been sucked out of all localities and transferred into lifeless simulacrum.
Beautiful essay. This is the same for me, only substitute Nebraska for Colorado. You are correct. The rot is everywhere. The loss is real. Our children will never know what we had. We can try to maintain and rebuild as best we can, but it only goes so far.
Thank and I'm sorry to hear that. We need drastic measures to either completely reset the system from the top or to pull out of the system... No maintaining. Legacy is meant to be forged anew out of this death and not held in a stasis to uphold international commerce.
Are you from Lexington?
Idk why the comments aren't going below the people I'm responding to, but this one is a response to you.
https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/ghosts-of-nebraska/comment/75945765?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=21pjz0
That is pretty impressive that your grandpa got a full ride scholarship for the Huskers!
I am from originally from Gothenburg in Dawson County. I assumed you grew up in Lexington since your description of the meat packing industry and with African migrant situation fit so well with that town's demographics.
My wife and I lived out of state across the country for the last 10 years and we finally moved back to Buffalo County so our sons could be closer to their grandparents. It still doesn't feel quite like home yet, or at least how close knit the community was when I grew up.
Thank you! It breaks my heart what has happened to Nebraska. Colfax county had the same thing happen with meat packing plants and at first it was swarms of Mexicans they brought in. The Africans are newer.
Nebraskans are more reserved and very kind people, but more of us need to start speaking up and pushing back against the invasion and tv driven mainstream necon "values".
beautiful. i do think that Rivendells do exist.
No, this is about a small town in Colfax County where most of my family is from though I do have one set of great-great-grandparents from Saunders County.
My grandpa was the team captain of the huskers (he was much younger in these pics) and got a full ride sports scholarship for football. Are you from NE?
>> At this level all civilizations enter upon a stage, which lasts for centuries, of appalling depopulation. The whole pyramid of cultural man vanishes. It crumbles from the summit, first the world-cities, then the provincial forms, and finally the land itself, whose best blood has incontinently poured into the towns, merely to bolster them up awhile. At the last, only the primitive blood remains, alive, but robbed of its strongest and most promising elements. This residue is the fellah type.
If anything has demonstrated the fact that causality has nothing to do with history, it is the familiar "decline" of the classical, which accomplished itself long before the irruption of Germanic migrants. The Imperium enjoyed the completest peace; it was rich and highly developed; it was well organized; and it possessed in its emperors from Nerva to Marcus Aurelius a series of rulers such as the Caesarism of no other civilization can show. And yet the population dwindled, quickly and wholesale. The desperate marriage-and-children laws of Augustus—amongst them the Lex de maritandis ordinibus, which dismayed Roman society more than the destruction of Varus's legions—the wholesale adoptions, the incessant plantation of soldiers of barbarian origin to fill the depleted country-side, the immense food-charities of Nerva and Trajan for the children of poor parents—nothing availed to check the process. <<
~ Oswald Spengler, The Decline of The West, Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06
we need to clean up our toxic wasteland. that takes work and people committed to achieving it. trump wants to abandon all environmental rules. sorry potlicis is in the air. everywhere.
While democratic sell out politicians only focus on things that create no real change and still allow money to be funneled into mass agriculture creating the toxic run off in the Platte I talk of. Environmentalism hides real environmental issues behind bullshit to create a false dichotomy and false environmental position.
Localization will do what regulations can't... Also liberals pushing us closer to nuclear war most definitely isn't good for the environment.
JUST SAYING, if in fact you are environmentally concerned with our state of our water and habitats---
BIDEN promoted 2 bills that can reduce the US greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50% from the level of 2005: the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Build Back Better Act.
OBAMA
Clean Water Framework
Released in 2011, this framework recognized the importance of clean water to the economy, environment, and communities. It also emphasized the need to partner with states, local communities, and stakeholders to protect water quality.
Updated drinking water standards
Clean water regulations
In 2015, the administration announced a new clean water regulation called Waters of the United States, which applied to about 60% of the nation's bodies of water.
Water efficiency and management
The administration issued Executive Order 13514, which set goals for reducing the amount of water used by federal agencies.
Everglades restoration
The administration invested $1.5 billion to restore the Everglades, including restoring floodplains along the Kissimmee River and completing the first mile of bridging for the Tamiami Trail.
Water Resources Reform and Development Act
The administration signed this act into law, which addressed drinking water treatment, wastewater treatment, and more.
SUPREME COURT
Wetlands: The court ruled that the CWA does not apply to wetlands that are not continuously connected to larger bodies of water. This means that many waters that connect underground are no longer protected.
Ephemeral streams: The court also excluded from protection streams that only flow seasonally.
Federal jurisdiction: The court's decision may limit the federal government's ability to enforce environmental regulations.
The CWA prohibits the discharge of pollutants into "navigable waters" without authorization. The term "waters of the United States" is a key part of the CWA, establishing the geographic scope of federal jurisdiction. Before the Sackett decision, the CWA was understood to protect most surface waters, including wetlands, lakes, oceans, and streams.
TRUMP
The Trump Administration Rolled Back More Than 100 Environmental Rules.
President Trump is particularly focused on rolling back policy to address climate change.
In addition to deregulatory actions to support the fossil fuel industry, of nation’s core environmental laws that ensure clean air and water and protect sensitive lands.
Greenhouse focus in and of itself is a complete psyop because they create overly complex bills that slip a bunch of other shit into them to continue to allow international oligopoly domination. It's like the same companies putting pink ribbons up instead of taking carcinogenic stuff out of their products.... It's hot air. If you actually read all these bills they do a lot more than create a need for authorization to pollute while also doing nothing to localize. Mass agriculture is inherently an issue, pharma owned GMO companies aren't getting any less money or polluting any less they can't stop run off without stopping their use entirely.
planet is fucked. especially if trump gets voted in.
👌🏼blue hair
not pushing closer to nuclear war. Putin is using as he goes around invading thte countries around him, in every way he can. I support freedom and democracy in Ukraine. so far every read line of putins has been a bluff. and so is the nucler thing. thats trump talking, who is a putin whisperer....
For some reason this didn't show up in the thread but is a response to your comment.
https://www.arktosjournal.com/p/ghosts-of-nebraska/comment/74664419?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=21pjz0