Mellow.......

[mdehners]

I noticed recently that stuff that used to get me pissed off enough to trigger a Rant....HASN'T. Zip. Nada. The most that's come from anything has been a sigh and a headshake.
Part may be the Meditating but I Feel it's more simply having realized that "Playing Cassandra" gets you basically the same Fate. It's very much like a roommate I had yrs ago that, to save effort simply rinsed dishes off and dried them with the towel hanging from the stove. No matter HOW many times I told him that food-born diseases require more to removed them AND that the kitchen towels also used to dry hands after Washing(at least in my case;>). Even mult digestive "issues" couldn't change his habits. I finally got tired of it and Moved.
Since I'm no longer around any kids, I don't Feel any responsibility any longer to prevent Stupidity, whether it be local or Planetary. After all, I'll probably be dead long before things get really bad and don't have any kids to take Pity on. From now on, Adults ARE.
Think of it as Evolution In Action.
Cheers,
Pat

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[ngakmafaery]

...maybe it's astrology or age or something, but I feel the same way: people I run into are SO very dumb and SO very satisfied with where they are that I feel like nothing I say or do could change their minds...it has actually made me feel really powerless and hopeless to live in Stupidland...

Evolution in Action.....

[mdehners]

I think one of the many reasons I'm Feeling the way I am is that I DID do all the things I felt I needed to do for Planet, Species and subunit thereof. Not always 100% but still in the top 10 of Effort compared to the general Western Public. If anything, the only real regrets are those I missed out on BECAUSE of doing the Right Thing...esp. that which inevitably left me and my Partner at the lower end of the Economic "ladder".
I truly Believe People get what they Deserve and they truly Deserve the World as it is NOW and WILL BE. The Earth will survive, it always has(well, until a planet-killer asteroid or Solar Expansion;>). New species will replace those made extinct through actions of self and/or other species. Humans simply won't Think much beyond Today. The 60's were wrong big-time. The West didn't need to live "In The NOW", it needed to live 7 Generations(or more)AHEAD.
And no Magical or Technological Being(s) are going to show up and be the ADULTS because we're SUPPOSED TO BE THEM!!!!!
Cheers,
Pat