The second half needs to be written. I get the exercise of it all, stoicism, memento mori, etc. I can’t find a fault in your logic.
But we have to plant a stake in the future and then pull ourselves there. What we want our kids to see, what we want to be in the future.
The WWII generation saw everything failing in an acute way- Everything was at risk at once. We now see things failing in a chronic way. Parts are failing but we can still move or get around. We get used to the pain and ignore it and push on.
But everyone has to decide where they want the world to be and push for that. And push against and away the people who can only see dollars. That’s the only solution I can see.
As usual, spot on… today July 4th feels like going to a wake…staring at the dead nation and wondering how and why no one around me is aware this nation isn’t terminally ill. When we voted a felon in as president a SECOND time, I knew game over, we died. The raping and pillaging have begun and will continue to the end. The new surveillance state will soon be implemented and then the fun will really start. Bye, bye, American pie.
Sadly, everything you say just rings so true. Albania stepped up, which is a glimmer of life in a sea of seeming futility. Yet I look around me here in America and all I see is denialism, apathy, ignorance and greed. I don’t use the word hope, because hope is not a strategy. Hope is a form of denialism and in essence of survival. Nobody has time to protest when they are worried about survival. That is the fait accompli.
The point is sometimes the necrosis has overcome a healthy body and nothing can be done to save it but to amputate. If luck is on your side, you may survive, but the odds are against you. Who in the world would follow you in fighting for civilisation instead of money? Certainly not the billionaires who will use their power to stay the course... or the curse.
I'm so mad that we have such a disgusting piece of shit as President of our country, backed by an army of ass kissers and opportunists. We couldn't have done worse if we tried, and maybe we did try. Happy fucking birthday America. Shame on all of us.
This god forsaken country needs to be in hospice care.
Who reads anyway? Bezos can own any news paper he likes. Politicians rely on 3% of voters swap to win an election. They will listen to you, regardless of what the papers say, or what the money says, so long you represent in their eyes the 3 % voters because of which they may lose or win an election.
The second half needs to be written. I get the exercise of it all, stoicism, memento mori, etc. I can’t find a fault in your logic.
But we have to plant a stake in the future and then pull ourselves there. What we want our kids to see, what we want to be in the future.
The WWII generation saw everything failing in an acute way- Everything was at risk at once. We now see things failing in a chronic way. Parts are failing but we can still move or get around. We get used to the pain and ignore it and push on.
But everyone has to decide where they want the world to be and push for that. And push against and away the people who can only see dollars. That’s the only solution I can see.
As usual, spot on… today July 4th feels like going to a wake…staring at the dead nation and wondering how and why no one around me is aware this nation isn’t terminally ill. When we voted a felon in as president a SECOND time, I knew game over, we died. The raping and pillaging have begun and will continue to the end. The new surveillance state will soon be implemented and then the fun will really start. Bye, bye, American pie.
Sadly, everything you say just rings so true. Albania stepped up, which is a glimmer of life in a sea of seeming futility. Yet I look around me here in America and all I see is denialism, apathy, ignorance and greed. I don’t use the word hope, because hope is not a strategy. Hope is a form of denialism and in essence of survival. Nobody has time to protest when they are worried about survival. That is the fait accompli.
The point is sometimes the necrosis has overcome a healthy body and nothing can be done to save it but to amputate. If luck is on your side, you may survive, but the odds are against you. Who in the world would follow you in fighting for civilisation instead of money? Certainly not the billionaires who will use their power to stay the course... or the curse.
I'm so mad that we have such a disgusting piece of shit as President of our country, backed by an army of ass kissers and opportunists. We couldn't have done worse if we tried, and maybe we did try. Happy fucking birthday America. Shame on all of us.
This god forsaken country needs to be in hospice care.
Yes. I not only hear you, I am there and fighting.
Plenty of nice folks at McKinsey & Company, of course. Ignorant nice folks, which is worse than “evil”, but tour de force , Umair, thanks,
Let's teach people what to do without the fear that all is doomed.
Who reads anyway? Bezos can own any news paper he likes. Politicians rely on 3% of voters swap to win an election. They will listen to you, regardless of what the papers say, or what the money says, so long you represent in their eyes the 3 % voters because of which they may lose or win an election.
I hate to think this way, but perhaps we now know the answer to the Fermi Paradox.