The muse isn’t singing for me tonight, so I’ll just leave you with this:
“Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other the good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man (1925)
This is it exactly: a nation’s soul can be so sickened by exhaustion, obesity, atrophy, and a kind of “insulin resistance” that it can no longer metabolize the ideas, traditions, beliefs, myths, and opportunities that in its youth, and in its prime, gave it energy and vitality.
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Get up in the morning and take a long hike in the cold at the crack of dawn. It will set you on a personal path for you and your family to get ready for what is coming.