sree, you’re also over looking that it was simple common knowledge of those people in that place and time.
It was also common knowledge to all of my generation, who were subjected to irrelevant news saturation of Mr. Atlantic City, the bankruptcy king, D T rump has been a blowhard fraud and plain shit-head from his earliest business dealings. Trump never signed a contract he wasn’t more than happy to break, trump screwed people out of well earned wages, etc, etc, etc. into tomorrow morning . . .
You keep trying to defend something that is indefensible - that is Trump’s behavior and his contempt for others and our government.
You talk all sanctimonious about trump’s right to privacy and secrets (though they’ve come to profoundly and harmfully impacts to American
and the world over. Trump’s Virus only being the worst of it, just one of many dozens of genuine American Horror stories thanks to extreme Alt-right & Evangelical thinking.
But this stuff you’re just fine with: Trump doing political business with China, in the middle of a restaurant, with cell phone recording, giving Russians states secrets, not giving a fuck that the Putin has a bounty on American soldier, none of that moves you, like a fool deer in the middle of the highway staring at those headlight bearing down on them.
But I guess, I could never hope for a gold plated toilet seat kid like you to understand any of that. There was a day I did hope, but now it’s just down to trying to enjoy the day to day best as I can.
Also fortunately at 65, one into that reflection phase, thinking about my young days, recollecting the stories of a busy life well lived.
Given that thanks to the likes of your type (and realizing how god damned many greedy self-centered juvenile delinquent adults like you there really are, all over the world, where nothing but short term self-interest and gluttony matters) I’ve pretty well given up on the future, no the world isn’t ending, tomorrow the sun will rise, life and people will keep on getting on, but it’s never going to be good times like we had.
There will be no more normal seasons and weather, ever again. We made sure of that, AGW is simple undeniable physics. The summers I knew hitching across our country and having the time of my life as adventurous young souls had been doing since the beginning of mankind. The good feeling, the sense of security - rhythm and order in the world and sky and the weather - Weather my friendly adversary. Yeah, friendly adversary, that’s the way I poetically looked at shit weather and I relished times of being caught in it, bucking up and dealing with it. (Though I never went out of my way to make it a way of life either, no arctic explorer here,) still. When you’re a macho young man, there’s nothing as invigorating as proving yourself equal to what nature tosses at one.
But all that is over, untold generations of human drive, arriving at it’s greatest challenge, . . . . . . and failing worse than primitives, who knew a fraction of what we do, did. No way to ever describe the pain and sadness of that reality. Then having to listen to a self-certain vacuous poser spouting utterly vicious, community- and self-destructive stupidity, as though it were a canon of his faith.
All we needed to do was slow down, think more, communicate with each other better, build community around nurturing the biosphere that nurtured us. Think seven generations into the future, as in, take it seriously: don’t think we are the only one’s who matter. {Sadly children, that’s just what my generations did to your’s, we knew, but we didn’t care enough to think about it.}
But now, with Anthropogenic Global Warming, adding more energy to this closed global heat and moisture distribution engine, it will heat up, that heat will impact all of its inhabitants. Things are going to get progressively tougher and tougher, until, well, it’s over and Earth is back to dealing with one of the most catastrophic insults it has ever endured. Greed is Good, Too Much Is Never Enough. It’s like fireworks and we’ve about popped our wad.
sree, just for the record, I spit on your smug pretense of superiority and its resultant disregard for humanity and the future.