People, get a grip.
We do not have a war halfway across the world with 50,000 American kids slogging through jungles or deserts for no apparent reason, other than to get shot.
Our wars are now fought by people who weighed their choices and thought the pay was good enough to sign up.
We do not have a king with porphyria who is mad as a hatter and talking to toads. We have a bloviator who is mildly demented, but we've had at least one demented President in living memory and he now has an airport named after him.
We have not put American citizens into "detention camps" because they are Japanese or Muslims (yet.) We do have ICE agents storm trooper-ing into homes in search of illegal immigrants, which is bad enough, but not quite wholesale racism in action.
There is little any of us can do, individually. So, I recommend a descent into bleakness. Watch really depressing Ingmar Bergmann movies, watch apocalyptic movies, The Seventh Seal, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket. Read Howard Zinn, A People's History of America. You want despair; it's all there.
Look at Terry Rodgers paintings on line. Here's one good example.
Look at these strung out people, and in comparison, you'll feel cheerful and fulfilled.
We have to know what bottom is and we haven't hit that yet.
We do not have a war halfway across the world with 50,000 American kids slogging through jungles or deserts for no apparent reason, other than to get shot.
Our wars are now fought by people who weighed their choices and thought the pay was good enough to sign up.
We do not have a king with porphyria who is mad as a hatter and talking to toads. We have a bloviator who is mildly demented, but we've had at least one demented President in living memory and he now has an airport named after him.
We have not put American citizens into "detention camps" because they are Japanese or Muslims (yet.) We do have ICE agents storm trooper-ing into homes in search of illegal immigrants, which is bad enough, but not quite wholesale racism in action.
There is little any of us can do, individually. So, I recommend a descent into bleakness. Watch really depressing Ingmar Bergmann movies, watch apocalyptic movies, The Seventh Seal, Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket. Read Howard Zinn, A People's History of America. You want despair; it's all there.
Look at Terry Rodgers paintings on line. Here's one good example.
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Look at these strung out people, and in comparison, you'll feel cheerful and fulfilled.
We have to know what bottom is and we haven't hit that yet.
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