Europe before the second world war was not unified.

After the ravages of World War II, a community grew that wasn’t there before.

Death and destruction poured over everyone leaving no person unharmed.

War is hell.

Deep ethnic and aristocratic barriers remained after the first world war.

Europe didn’t learn from its previous mistakes.

However, after the second failing, it did.

It learned about humanity.

It learned it needed community.

It learned it needed communication.

It left behind its childhood and became an adult.

It put away childish things.

The war matured European society.

This is not to say that there are no problems today.

Every child who becomes an adult, even a group of nations, will have its own personality disorders.

Its own childhood traumas.

It’s own unique set of problems, scars, challenges.

But the event of the Second World War had an unexpected effect.

The adolescent mind previously developed into a young adult.

Cataclysm does that.

Disaster and those that live after having their minds focused.

Priorities grow.

What is essential becomes paramount.

What is not essential is left behind.

The United States of American is an adolescent society.

It has never matured.

Its focus is about self, what I can get, not what I can do.

It has never suffered bombs burning down its cities.

Millions of its men, women, and children killed for no good reason.

The city on the hill has been spared apocalypse.

However…

2020 has drawn a line in the sand.

Time to put up or shut up.

COVID-19 has ridden into the streets of America on a pale horse.

This country will see death like it has never seen before.

The basic math is horrendous on what the casualties will be when this virus finally two to three years from now goes away.

And what of the after?

Ignorance will be checked for a time.

A Community will arise.

People will talk about their shared experiences.

Their grief.

Their love.

Their hope.

Their shared sacrifice.

A new America will stand up.

Beat but wiser.

With maturity comes wisdom.

Comes love.

Comes peace.

Peace.

DFrey