America’s Warning You Ignored
You can almost feel the weight of that old moment now—the way your mother’s hand froze midair,
dish towel hanging, as Paul Harvey’s voice painted a nation slowly trading its soul for comfort,
applause, and distraction. You didn’t hear all of it then. You hear too much of it now.
Not as a mystical prophecy, but as a painfully accurate map of what
happens when a culture stops asking hard questions and starts chasing easy feelings.
Yet his broadcast was never meant to crown him a prophet; it was meant to wake up a people.
The power isn’t in how right he was, but in what we do with that accuracy.
We can keep consuming outrage like entertainment, baptizing our preferences as “truth,”
and calling it normal. Or we can treat his old monologue as a mirror,
admit how far we’ve drifted, and choose—deliberately—to turn back.
