The Pioneer Spirit

If you have ever tried living outside in the wilderness with only a knife and a blanket (not during the wintertime) then you know just how hard or impossible this would be in various wilderness places on earth.

So likewise, when people first came to the U.S. as pioneers and settlers a whole lot died along the way from the East Coast to the West Coast, up into Alaska and even Captain Cook was killed by locals in Hawaii because he was a White Ghost who was only allowed to be contacted by the Kahunas and Kings because they thought about him basically the way most people have thought about UFOS all along since the mid 1900s.

So, idealism isn't going to keep you alive at night when the temperature drops and you don't have any food. But, pragmatism and the pioneer spirit just might. An Attitude of "I'm going to survive no matter what and no matter what comes in my life" also might be helpful along with that pragmatism, because sooner or later while settling North America if you didn't have that attitude you were going to be dead. And sometimes with that attitude you still were going to be dead.

People around the world might not understand just who Americans who have lived her multi-generationally are. But, if you have been around America and met some of the people from pioneer stock you can still see it in their faces and in their attitudes. There is a pragmatism and harshness you might not see other places on earth still in the U.S.

Most other places might have had harshness but without opportunity. So, often other places  have a completely different dynamic than in the U.S. Life was always harsh here in the U.S.

So, it has only been since the 1950s that life has been relatively speaking: Easy. This was only the first time life wasn't about Struggle for life and opportunity so much.

So, normal for the U.S. was always a whole lot of struggle and death alongside of opportunities for all classes of people until around 1950s when it became a lot less struggle and a lot more opportunity. But, this has changed again to the more normal side of life in the U.S. of a whole lot more struggle and death and some opportunity again.

It might be important to note that it is possible that we will never see the relatively easy times of the 1950s through the 1990s ever again and that this is not only the NEW normal but also the way things have always been except from 1950 to the end of the 1990s.

So, very likely we just lived through a Golden Age for America between 1950 and 2000 that may never come again. Something to think about! Welcome to the new old normal.