I did something last night that many of you, I am genuinely sorry to say, still cannot do.
Half an hour outside Dallas, where I am right now, there's a drive-in theater. In some parts of the country the drive-ins are closed -- you might get infected with the virus while inside your own car, you see -- but in this 10% free state you can go.
So we went.
We saw "The Hunt."
The plot: a group of elites kidnap a dozen "deplorables" and hunt them for sport.
As one leftist is about to claim a victim, he says to him, "Oh, and for the record, climate change is real."
My mind wandered during the movie to this thought: it may not come to open civil war, but can we really persist indefinitely as a single country when we loathe each other like this?
One side looks at the rest of the country as backward hicks, contemptuous of science and modernity, and holding back the progress of mankind.
The other side looks at the first one with equal disdain.
I used to think: enough of us working together can make a difference and change things for the better. There are enough people of good will out there who will listen.
Well, maybe.
But maybe not.
Maybe we need to be less ambitious and focus instead on sheer survival.
Instead of saving the world -- which I'm not necessarily giving up on, but which is seeming more implausible all the time -- we focus on taking care of ourselves.
One way to start is by getting a handle on immediate needs, including some outside source of smackers -- if events of the past two months haven't underscored the urgency of this, then I give up.
Here's one you'll actually enjoy doing, and it doesn't require an email list or anything complicated: print-on-demand. Telling a fulfillment company what you'd like printed on a mug, and having them send it out to buyers.
Doesn't get much easier than that.
The woman who's taught my folks how to do it: Rachel Rofe, Tom Woods Show guest on episode #1644.
She's so good at explaining it that she's even had people make their first sale **while she's still explaining it on the webinar**.
You could do this with a teenager, too, as a way to pass the lockdown blues.
Sign up to attend Rachel's demonstration and I'll see you there.
Tom Woods