We play hide and seek as young children. As adults we continue to hide or evade from what we dislike, fear or truly both. We also, for many personal reasons seek the sad or negative. Just recall all the rubberneckers gawking at the last bad vehicle accident on Route 84, or even on Milford’s Broad Street and the murder of a young dog.
The next time when, or if, you log onto Facebook observe all the anonymous participant postings, I call it spam and scam plus the occasional oh damn. Our fellow members of society in late 2024 have evolved into nameless communicators of social minutiae or cyber babble. You can also try to attend a county commissioners’ meeting and seek fellow attendees. It will be a rare day when you more than yourself in that conference room. People seek to remain anonymous in lieu of being labeled by others for what they say or how they present themselves.
So how will 2025 be? In Pike County we will see politics continue to promote local business boycotting. We will see our schools evade the increase in bullying. We will feel the hate levels rise and possibly become more saddening. All these negative actions will sustain our county’s poor economic development. We will also observe an increase in fund raising and newly redesigned festivals so we can garner that outsider discretionary budget revenue.
Pike County requires a true level of transparency. The anonymous participant needs to cease their hiding. We must seek happiness and civil dialogue. Our business leaders need to be proud of their own beliefs versus fear of a boycott. Our clergy must cease their labeling of people and judging us.
In 2025, Pike County needs to learn from each other. We all should bless the ability to meet our basic needs versus our cyber wants. We are a tourist destination. Let’s be happy we live here and ignore the trolls, the anonymous participants and the made-up names of others.
Kevin Holian
Dingman Township