As a society and as a race, we have allowed the proper template to be stolen and replaced by those who would do us harm for their own good. I have been blessed to have a family that avoided this for the most part. I fear that a great catharsis is imminent. Like unto the American Civil War, or WW2. History glosses over the periods leading up to such tumult, but if you look, in every case there is plenty of warning. Before the Civil War, there was a period of "Civil Cold War" that lasted about thirty years, an entire generation, before the shots at Ft. Sumter. And the cornerstone of the foundation for WW2 was laid on October 11, 1918, twenty-one years, again, about a generation, before Germany and the USSR carved up Poland and started WW2. What is coming has all happened before. It will all happen again. "We defy augury. There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be *not* now, yet it *will* come. The readiness is all.” - Hamlet, final act.