It is inarguable to observe the empirical principle. that, in a perceived context of personal danger, mankind universally, will defer all prior concerns to prioritise the thoughts and actions necessary for his safety. By empirical extension, it would appear that the individual is inclined to relegate prior thoughts and concern as well, to matters of far less import, such as, getting a splinter, sustainimg a minor injury or sufferin digestive upset. Observably, there is a wide variety of empirical causation, yet a predictable singularity of response.
It would appear that the nature of one’s responsive reaction to stimuli is dependent on the nature and quality of one’s relevant situational perception, as distinguished from the process of deliberative and rationally considered concern; such emotional inclination often results in the misplacement of priorities.
The extant roiling national disputation relative to the character and actions of President Trump, it seems, has singularly and contextually captured and deflected a myriad of unrelated but, inarguably, truly cogent concerns contemporaneously confronting the Nation and the World.
Trump’s nefarious intention to rule in the manner of the stereotypical autocrat, his blatent rejection of the Constitution and precedential rule of law, serial mendacity and hubristic ideations are startling and an ominious threat to the Nation’s normative conception of the Office of the Presidency; his policies and actions, egregiously offend all reasonable moral standards. Trump is shockingly engaged in self-aggrandisizing behavior to the detriment of the welfare of the Nation, inclusive of its relationships with its historic allies and trading partners, while treasonously cosying up to the Nation’s declared enemies. He has funded a private (masked) army, (“ICE”) in stereotypical, Gestapo fashion, to terrorize, torture, and deport foreign-born, brown-skinned Americans without just cause or due proce has, contrary to his campaign demagoguery, made deceitful, and undelivered assurances of immediate peace in Gaza and Ukraine, to lower consumer prices but, sophomorically, chose to impose high tariffs on the Nation’s trading partners, thus elevating such prices, hubristically attempted to alter the Nation by the wave of his analogous”royal scepter” ( felt-tipped “Sharpie”), irrespective of the Nation’s three established branches of government, cruelly cut the historically established programs of financial assistance to disabled and retired American citizens and the Nation’s disabled military veterans, as well as halting the compassionate, and “soft diplomatic” programs of financial and medicinal aid to needy foreign nations, while, simultaneously cutting taxes for his billionaire donors.
There yet exists an additional dumpster-full of exigent reasons for the mainstream American citizen to fear for himself and his democracy. Notably, the specific instances, by their all-consuming popular concern, appear to be disappointingly effective in justifying a National, all-encompassing concern.
In keeping with the theme and context of this writing, we would suggest that such dire concern for our National Democracy, while understandable, has thoughtlessly overridden the fundamentally existential and rapidly metastasizing peril to the civilizational Planet, viz., “Global Warming.”
This year has seen mid-August weather in June, threatening consistent with the abnormal seasonal and climate conditions occurring globally, rising ocean levels from melting Arctic Ice, unprecedented flooding, inundation of inhabited territory, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. excessive rainfall, tornadoes, mud slides, fires of immense magnitude, shore destruction, the increase in arid desert territory, pollution of the air and atmosphere, destruction of woodland and stresses on agriculture with the swings in abnormal temperature, destruction of ocean coral, prodigious winds, hurricanes, tornadoes and an additional ubiquitous host of dangerous and threatening phenomena, attributable, as determined by scientific research, to the pollution of the air and atmosphere, from the consumption of fossil fuels.
More worrisome is our contextual observation that Mankind is focused, singularly, on existing political and economic issues, to the detriment of the existential need to consider the exigent steps necessary to preserve our planet and its inhabitants.
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