In my opinion Paul Revere was America's first tweeter.
The Internet was not his carrier; it was a horse.
The colonial tweet message was shouted over and over: the British are coming! the British are coming! A pioneer tweeter for grasshopper generation was singer Boz Scaggs.
"Danger - there's a breakdown dead ahead" are lyrics from one of his popular songs.
About the same time Dr.
George Land published his Pulitzer-nominated book Breakpoint.
His work revealed that all systems, no matter how simple or complex, travel to and move through the breakpoint.
What survives does not resemble what preceded it.
One example is the process of a tadpole becoming a frog.
And then look at IBM, a business that has travelled successfully through several breakpoints.
A typewriter company that became the world leader in mainframe computers was the first.
Surfing forward they are no longer wheeling and dealing in mainframes but floating on cloud information management systems.
Getting beyond the breakpoint means that much of the past is lost and thrown aside.
But the foundation of the new is constructed from parts of the old system.
Mentally, the time prior to the breakpoint is extremely stressful, mostly from fear of the unknown.
Awareness of the situation not only removes much of the stress, but allows for valuable preparation to intelligently deal with the future.
The United States is accelerating to its third breakpoint transition.
The first was the Civil War in the 1800s; second was the Great Depression of the 1930s.
The society that evolved from those historic events enabled us to reach new heights of achievement.
Both of these historical changes were very painful, and most likely the next breakpoint will be no different.
Awareness is 90% of the solution to any problem; however, few in the population today acknowledge or realize the magnitude of what faces us.
Grasshopper generation who invented the phrase 'just say yes' and never met a credit card whose limit they couldn't exceed, is clueless! Breakpoint to them comes from keeping score in tennis.
Nervous working citizens are subjected to a flood of data with information that state and federal governments have massive financial problems.
Every day they experience the pain produced by both these systems, and the last thing they want or need is media reinforcement of ineptness.
Some of the smallest publications in the world contain legitimate solution proposals.
The informers trumpeting what is broken all receive some form of revenue from these Chicken Little messages.
It is not documented if Paul Revere was compensated for his ride.
The odds are that he only received comfort for making an attempt at a better existence for his family.
The tweet system does not pay for content creation.
Even better is the fact that it is functioning and ready to deliver the message just as Paul's horse was.
I feel a tweet coming on.
My first tweet should be Boz's words...
"Danger there's a breakdown dead ahead".
Watch for the next five tweets.
They just might inspire you to demand behavioral changes in your federal elected officials.
For my grandchildren and future generations I hope someone's tweet gets through.
Prepare for the worst - pray for better!