The rot at the core of almost every institution is disheartening. There's a handful of small organizations that didn't succumb. They're tiny and scattered.
we have to take out our dictionary to find the words to describe what is going on. Yes it has been bad for humans before, slavery in Egypt and slavery in medieval Europe and slavery here in the US, people trying to use other people like animals or worse, but every time the plebs have fought back. But now the youth seems to agree with the slavery. The tribes and fifdoms have turned into nations, and it will get harder and harder to fight back. Usually it are students and farmers that raise the alarm. The Dutch farmers stood up but where are the students? They live in lala land with their cell phones. Turned into zombies by 80 shots with poison
I hear you, Ingrid, loud and clear. I don't yet have specific answers but I long ago committed to at least playing a Paul Revere role. As disillusioned as I may get at times, I've never abdicated that pledge.
The youth are growing up staring at screens, conditioned into passivity. The powers-that-be don't want another 60s rebellion, so they jacked up the cost of college tuition, kept salaries stagnant while cost of living went up and made sure the youth were forced to focus on making money with very little leisure time to think about anything else.
Poignant and depressing! Crazy to think our good memories of familiar institutions and hangouts are a time capsule... perhaps never to feel free and chill again.
I wish I could understand what it is that drives the power hungry. It’s a total mystery to me. Why not just live and let live? Let me do my thing, leave me be, and don’t take my stuff.
Well, I have a theory that the uber rich are just very bored and empty inside. They're so used to getting what they want that they haven't had many real challenges in life. I think we all need challenges, even though we don't like having them.
With very few real challenges, the rich get bored and start creating problems, breaking things, experimenting with what else they can do with their riches. Just a theory, but based on wealthy people I've met.
I know of a few people who were born with lots of money and they are the most screwed-up people I've ever seen... One is in and out of rehab, and another lives in a house (given to them by their parents) and constantly threatens suicide, tells everyone who'll listen that they're ugly, no one loves them, etc.
All I see is that those are people who don't have to work so they're used to having everything given to them and have never developed much character. I've been homeless, had lots of awful experiences, but I appear to be happier than some of those people... I'm not interested in controlling everyone else because I'm too busy trying to get control over my own life...
Yes, I too find it hard to enjoy things as much as I did before. I went to a writer's group, and, fortunately, only one lost soul was masked up. (He took his mask off to read his written work then put it back on after he was finished. No logic!)
But even though others weren't wearing masks, the atmosphere was cold as ice. It just felt like I was in a room filled with robots. I got the impression that people were afraid of being warm and friendly. Might catch a disease that way...
The rot at the core of almost every institution is disheartening. There's a handful of small organizations that didn't succumb. They're tiny and scattered.
we have to take out our dictionary to find the words to describe what is going on. Yes it has been bad for humans before, slavery in Egypt and slavery in medieval Europe and slavery here in the US, people trying to use other people like animals or worse, but every time the plebs have fought back. But now the youth seems to agree with the slavery. The tribes and fifdoms have turned into nations, and it will get harder and harder to fight back. Usually it are students and farmers that raise the alarm. The Dutch farmers stood up but where are the students? They live in lala land with their cell phones. Turned into zombies by 80 shots with poison
I hear you, Ingrid, loud and clear. I don't yet have specific answers but I long ago committed to at least playing a Paul Revere role. As disillusioned as I may get at times, I've never abdicated that pledge.
The youth are growing up staring at screens, conditioned into passivity. The powers-that-be don't want another 60s rebellion, so they jacked up the cost of college tuition, kept salaries stagnant while cost of living went up and made sure the youth were forced to focus on making money with very little leisure time to think about anything else.
Poignant and depressing! Crazy to think our good memories of familiar institutions and hangouts are a time capsule... perhaps never to feel free and chill again.
Well said, Maka.
I wish I could understand what it is that drives the power hungry. It’s a total mystery to me. Why not just live and let live? Let me do my thing, leave me be, and don’t take my stuff.
Right? It seems everyone (myself sometimes included) tries to psychoanalyze the psychos but it never feels like we "get" it.
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Well, I have a theory that the uber rich are just very bored and empty inside. They're so used to getting what they want that they haven't had many real challenges in life. I think we all need challenges, even though we don't like having them.
With very few real challenges, the rich get bored and start creating problems, breaking things, experimenting with what else they can do with their riches. Just a theory, but based on wealthy people I've met.
I know of a few people who were born with lots of money and they are the most screwed-up people I've ever seen... One is in and out of rehab, and another lives in a house (given to them by their parents) and constantly threatens suicide, tells everyone who'll listen that they're ugly, no one loves them, etc.
All I see is that those are people who don't have to work so they're used to having everything given to them and have never developed much character. I've been homeless, had lots of awful experiences, but I appear to be happier than some of those people... I'm not interested in controlling everyone else because I'm too busy trying to get control over my own life...
Just my theory...
Yes, I too find it hard to enjoy things as much as I did before. I went to a writer's group, and, fortunately, only one lost soul was masked up. (He took his mask off to read his written work then put it back on after he was finished. No logic!)
But even though others weren't wearing masks, the atmosphere was cold as ice. It just felt like I was in a room filled with robots. I got the impression that people were afraid of being warm and friendly. Might catch a disease that way...
Utterly heart-breaking...but I admire you for trying!