How not to lock things up

 In motor sport racing, specifically F1 racing, there is one thing most drivers try to avoid and that is over breaking thus causing a lockup. The lockup and subsequent slide causing a flat spot on the tire and a sideways slide causing two problems; the first problem is that the tire is left less than optimal and the second problem is that if you are going to far sideways you are not going forward; the energy one had has become misdirected. 

The racing metaphor above is a reflection on the current social and political environments that have been thrust upon us all. While race car drivers strive for the finish line for that specific race or the championship of the annual race season because that is not how societies work. Societies don't have a preset finish line in so much as they run out of gas or perhaps a better conclusion is that the car simply breaks down. 

Now it is the task of this author to map the introductory metaphor to the real life being perceived. This is not a new task, just a different approach. Social media has quickened the life of many people thus leaving them less time to respond for there are expectations of immediate response on both sides. This is something this author has observed now for many years. 

It is at this time this author would like to make a request of the reader - please provide a legal citation outside of a court order that compels a person to answer a phone call or to respond to an email or any other public commentary. Therefore in countries that have an obvious or a tenuous implementation of free speech then it must be asked; why do people speak on any topic. Based on that premise the obvious question to those people who speak up must be - what is  your goal? The underlining task for the rest of us is to see if we can trust those who speak-up and what they speak-up about. 

Let us now look at who is speaking up. In current history there has been a number of persons who are now needing to slam on the breaks or they are very close. The question this author has is, why is the dive off the race line into the curve needed now. Now we can look at the obvious drivers will be listed:

1. The People on welfare - Please finish the statement - Here is the list of what I am going to pass on to my children.
2. Black Lives Matter - Look up the death toll of people in Chicago Illinois and note the number of people not killed by police. 
3. The LGBT+ Community - Do you all really get along so well enough to still be considered a community anymore or have you ever been? Please remember that while you think that the enemy of your enemy may be you friend today they were your enemy yesterday.
   
4. Transgender Athletes - After all of the women quit the sports in which you now participate, what will you be a champion of? Remember that in a single person race you come in both first and last.
   
5. The Politician - Can you please accurately finish any document or long form speech with the phrase 'Here is why this will help my country ...'?
6.  Critical Race Theorists - Please explain how your racism suppresses the racism that came before yours.
   
7.  According to their livery, those who follow Islam don't like the LGBT+ community and so where does the I fit in? Here is the confusion, because the I hidden in that plus sign must mean Islam or Intersex as it seems there can't be room for both. 
8. The Environmentalist - Please identify and give up every and any thing sourced from fossil fuels. Let me help you out; all plastics, rubbers, steels, batteries (including lithium), electrical item with a source from a non-nuclear plant.
   
9. The Feminists - Please confirm that you are happier being taxed in a world with higher costs based on a two person household income over simply raising children and making sandwiches. 
10. The Politician (Team-2) - Explain why all of these emergency rules, mandates and laws being put in place under an emergency situation don't have an automatic sunset clause built in.

So now that we have the typical ten teams found in F1 we have to looks to the fans, which is otherwise known as the people who LISTEN and SEE, and so here we go and so for them I have questions:

1. If, upon learning that 60% of men or more in prison are from single mother homes would you consider being more careful with condoms?
   
2. Why is the term 'looting' considered a racist act - please explain?
3.  Who held the first 'queer' parade the testosterone or the estrogen?
   
4. Should women have a chance of winning in a female competition?
5. Do your politicians answer to their constituents or someone else? 
6. Does CRT actually fix things or just provide money to those who can buy land from received donations? 
7. Have you read Machiavelli yet? 
8. What do you have left now - anything? This author is not against having concern for the planet and though it took us about 15,500+ years to get to this place; can we please have more than a decade or two to fix the entire thing. I don't have a God complex and I'm surely not someone who has the arrogance to propose that any human has such power. 
9. Due to higher food and fuel costs home cooking will once again become the new normal - does the kitchen really sound all that bad now? Please learn that a warm potato in your pocket will warm your core and afterwards that by eating that potato your will build sugar that will give you the energy to work more so you can buy another potato, if one is a available. 
10. People without hope have nothing to gain and that makes them very dangerous. Please keep that in mind as you move forward on this ever lengthening path that you have set
    

 

This is about it for now and I may return to this later...