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The Cavalry Isn’t Coming - by Scott Gilbertson

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The Cavalry isn’t coming. This is the lesson 21st century America is trying to teach us. We are going to have to re-learn how to depend on ourselves and on each other. There is no one else. That’s okay. We don’t need anyone else. Self-reliance backed up by tight community bonds used to be the norm. You depended on yourself, your family, your community, because who else was there? So far as I can tell from reading history this was most people’s outlook until roughly the middle of the 20th century. That’s when a number of things happened that changed how people saw themselves and their communities. Around then things began to centralize and as they did the solutions people had always relied on were suddenly found wanting. Self-appointed experts stepped in to tell us how things should be done. How we should eat. How we should live. How we should love. Sometimes the experts had good ideas. But often they did not. And even when their ideas were good, there was an unintended consequence to l

Updated October 2024 : Here’s a good example of depending on ourselves . I will confess I did not foresee the government actively thwarting people trying to help, but in hindsight… of course they will. Nevertheless I am encouraged (and always have been) by the example of the Cajun Navy and other volunteers in the south. The Cavalry isn’t coming. This is the lesson 21st century America is trying to teach us. We are going to have to re-learn how to depend on ourselves and on each other. There is no one else. That’s okay. We don’t need anyone else. Self-reliance back

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