First-Hand Account From Maui
In Our Lifetimes, We’ve Never Truly Feared A Missile Attack Anywhere In The U.S. (And We Are Not Millennials)
Our friend, Tim Mccallum writes:
“Being awoken with a cell phone warning of an imminent ballistic missile attack sure as hell shifts your frame of reference in a big hurry. Everything extraneous falls away. If you can avoid falling into panic, you will immediately understand what in this life really matters to you. And if, on a deep level, you feel as if you’ve lived your life well, you may not even be afraid. My primary emotion was gratitude for my life, tinged with sadness that there wasn’t going to be more of it.
In my opinion, this was no fat finger accident. It was a deliberate and cynical experiment. A trial balloon opinion poll, in real time and real life, about the prospect of a limited nuclear exchange.
People running this country, both on the right and the left, and the entrenched bureaucracy, have in my opinion completely lost touch with reality.
When you’re legitimately focus grouping nuclear war, you should step down and check yourself into a mental institution.
As I write this, I’m sitting in a beach park on Maui. I’m surrounded by family and friends, my son is 4 feet away and his vegetarian grandma is feeding him his first taste of Kalua pork. Soon we will break out our instruments and play some music and sing some karaoke. When the sun gets low we’ll get in the water for an end of day swim.
Seems like in the aftermath of our existential excursion, we’re all keen on the richness of simple pleasures. People who find that trite or twee? I respectfully suggest you’ve lost sight of what life is about.
As for the cynical power-seeking maniacs currently running this country into the ground, history will rightfully bury you side by side with the other criminals of this era.
Please do try to not exterminate all of us as you vie for your self aggrandizement.”
(This story originally appeared in “The Chaos Report” Newsletter. Subscribe at https://thechaosreport.com/subscribe/?scr=Medium)
