Yeah, well facts is facts and we’re in free fall anyways.
And although I’m very happy today, the inauguration and speeches really impressed me. To me, Biden’s speech turned into a civics lesson worth hearing more than once. VP Harris impresses me, the ceremony was spot on considering the situation.
But I’m still very pissed at being an unwilling witness to decades worth of deliberate self-destruction fostered by a willful ignorance populous being brainwashed and led by their noses by advertising and a gluttony for consumerism.
The global warming thing is still happening and the show is just starting to get warmed up and the trend is in one direction; the virus is settling in for the long haul with mutation and surprises as evolution would have it; we depend on an economic engine addicted to growth and that is increasingly consuming and destroying ourselves and the life support system we depend on.
I know Lausten, you mean good and I do appreciate it, nor do I disagree, but you know, you also get me thinking about my own life, growing from working childhood* to working manhood, doing it the old fashioned way for poor boys. Lot of work in my teens and twenties, lots of different jobs. lots of traveling, lots of interaction with others, and along the way I did get smacked in the face with my own stupidity a few times. We don’t like it, but those were the lesson that lasted.
I was forced face the consequences, I was forces to take responsibility and I came out the other side much better. In big ways and small. This new patty cake world where no one can ever be scolded, look where it’s gotten us. A world full of willfully delusional people who believe they are superior and above all reproach.
Now admittedly when I’m at a board meeting, I’d never get close to this sort of tenor. We have a job to do, all are acting in good faith and I listening to all sides and I’m very considerate when pushing mine, being civil friendly respectful is the name of the game. Allowing consensus to rule is the way to play. And yes it feels a hell of a lot better. But that’s also real people and not some vague mass of characters out there somewhere.
Then again, everyone acts like a thirty year mortgages (and the like) are reality, when the tragic fact is that thirty years down the road will see a totally different world. Only the realists, as in Earth Centrists, science respecting, honest dealing, cooperation willing and tough, tough, tough will be around.
As you can image I have an interesting Mindscape and the day to days can get weird to navigate, but I find that having abandoned all hope for the future, I can focus on today with that much more relish, so far so good.
I will try to watch my p’s and q’s - still willfully rejecting clearly explainable physical facts and absolutely refusing to learn, in fact, resenting all efforts to learn - should to get called out!
*Not like they used to work children, but we were an old world household, and learning to work was part of it.
