Journeyman’s Journal
October 21, 2025
…And the People Went Insane!
The difference between the world today and the world we grow up in is not definable. We cannot put our finger on what is different or why; but we all know that collective consciousness has changed.
It is not a shift!
Do not call it a, “shift,” because the road and also the vehicle are all different animals, today, altogether!
How To Correct It:
It may not be corrected, for it is the condition of the human mind to maintain the, “lowest common denominator,” status quo in order to maintain it’s understanding of it’s illogical surroundings.
ACTS 15:16 comes to mind; but when does, “this,” end so that we may begin to rebuild the new temple? I tend to question:
When did It begin?
Was it in the late sixties? The late seventies?
It was already going on in the 90’s!
Whenever it began, the common question is:
What do we do to fix it, now?
…. The answer to that: …. … It is almost nothing. We are sure it is something, but we do not know what that is. It is definitely not nothing! The prevailing issue remains:
How do we re-learn those things which our grandparents had never been taught?
For instance, I began writing a book called, “Horse Racing In America: You’re Doing It Wrong”. The purpose of the book was to pass-on, to the younger generation, the skills and knowledge I have gleaned from my lifetime of being around Hall Of Famers, top athletes and Olympic conditioners.
Though the book began by pointing out negative aspects of the business, (nobody liked being told that they had been doing something improperly their whole lives!) every negative observation I had made beginning every chapter was ijuxtaposed by the correct techniques or ways to correct the flaws.
It is a book for students of the game; but there are fewer and fewer students of the game anymore. There are so few students of the game, today, the majority of the collective cannot relate to the elite, those of us who have been to the top. We are ostracized and mocked by the masses instead of being revered and mimicked!
Is This Why You Chose To Retire From the Masses?
Yes. It sounds selfish, defeated and neglegant; but I pose the following query:
Who Is Listening?
Who Hears the Message?
Why Deny that God has Abandoned this Town (because of the people’s impropriety)?
Have I been defeated?…. …
No.
Have I completely removed myself from the goings-on of this world, of the common man?
No, not completely.
I may not be simple, however, I am a man.
If, ever, I can find another man to relate to the lonely plight of this crossed sojourner, I would share a song or a poem, a story and an anecdote. Until another sojourner crosses my path, silently, onward I go. To where: I do not know. From where: …. … you could only believe me if you were there, with me!
-Ride Tight