I am your friend.
Here if you need a familiar voice
and we can all be 'us' if we can learn to be a proper tribe
my son has spoken at length with me about this, how Irish absolutely suck at this
Hindi, Chinese, Costa Ricans, Eskimos, Amazn rainforest pygmies, Peruvian peasants, they ALL understand its unity or death
and Irish say hold my beer, watch this
Chinese plan 5 generations ahead while we squabble over probate and who gets the acreage but doesn't deserve it as they won't farm it but sell
Italians had a code, not their own women and children. Maybe yours but not theirs. And they killed any who harmed their family, rightfully so.
Irish don't have this instinct at all apparently, at least not mine
its more like every man for himself
tho the cannibal desperation of the famine faded on this side of the pond, they never forgot it over there and limited by such a small island, learned to compete ruthlessly in struggle over land, so long denied ownership in perpetual tenancy and serfdom
its not that they are lessers but just more brutal and see us as pushovers and soft targets, weak, not battle hardened enough
so without treaties in place, there is no 'us' to reconcile with my outrageously opportunist island kin
and they should realize by now, after 5 or 6 decades that we are NOT going to let go of our faith no matter how oppressive they may find the altar or how enthusiastically they embrace the perverse, they see we are far more traditional here, less decadent than Europe.
our climate is harsher, we had greater distances to travel and rugged frontier, wider range of predatory animals (wolves bears mountain lions)
so our needs were different, our adversaries not our landlords but those who were already here whom we oppressed and yet still deeply respect
we are interwoven by blood with our Indigenous in many cases, because of conquest
there is no corresponding respect for their aristocracy back there among the common folk
its why we can have a statue of Stonewall Jackson, respect for a worthy but vanquished foe and they blow up Nelson's Pillar in petulant rage
they keep trying to force us to 'evolve' into something more permissive and we steadfastly decline their incessant demand we forsake Christ
NOT GOING TO HAPPEN LADS
so put that stolen car in context of the times and what was going on then, how we were under a foreign coup usurping the boomer elders
she had no idea how precious that car was or critical to escape from the urban ferals but she knows now
find something to replace it while they are still affordable, pay cash, take possession
the man with a rural junkyard of rusted parts may be sitting on a field of gold in times to come
you're up to your gills in "familiar" (family) gonads, aren't cha?
lol
tom