I'm a younger (61) senior, still relatively healthy thank goodness; I must reluctantly agree with your dreary observations. I would add to your "silver lining" list that, for me at least, the unprecedented mendacity, the bad faith from all quarters especially since January 2020, had made obvious the rot that has existed in the system fo…
I'm a younger (61) senior, still relatively healthy thank goodness; I must reluctantly agree with your dreary observations. I would add to your "silver lining" list that, for me at least, the unprecedented mendacity, the bad faith from all quarters especially since January 2020, had made obvious the rot that has existed in the system for many decades prior. The sooner all this collapses and, hopefully, a freer system replaces it the better. Otherwise there's a very real chance that most of the world is really staggering into some form of global authoritarian state, a brave new world, a 1984, whatever.
This may collapse and be replaced with a freer system as you say. You know what happens then, don't you? Ten generations max and it's sick and ready for the ashbin again. The cycle continues. Is there a point to the endless rise and fall cycle? I dunno, beyond my pay grade. I do know humankind can't sustain a decent society in the context of civilization. Hunter-gatherer groups do much better in that regard. Seems that's what we're designed for and we can't handle modernity. One huge advantage primitive groups have is psychopaths can be eliminated, rather than allowed to thrive.
I'm a younger (61) senior, still relatively healthy thank goodness; I must reluctantly agree with your dreary observations. I would add to your "silver lining" list that, for me at least, the unprecedented mendacity, the bad faith from all quarters especially since January 2020, had made obvious the rot that has existed in the system for many decades prior. The sooner all this collapses and, hopefully, a freer system replaces it the better. Otherwise there's a very real chance that most of the world is really staggering into some form of global authoritarian state, a brave new world, a 1984, whatever.
This may collapse and be replaced with a freer system as you say. You know what happens then, don't you? Ten generations max and it's sick and ready for the ashbin again. The cycle continues. Is there a point to the endless rise and fall cycle? I dunno, beyond my pay grade. I do know humankind can't sustain a decent society in the context of civilization. Hunter-gatherer groups do much better in that regard. Seems that's what we're designed for and we can't handle modernity. One huge advantage primitive groups have is psychopaths can be eliminated, rather than allowed to thrive.