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Rather fatiguing times, to put it mildly. Read some classical literature. Think outside of real time.
I’ve never forgotten the 70’s. Watergate. The US selling out the decent people of Vietnam, a betrayal my fellow Boomer will never acknowledge. The NY Times gloomily proclaiming imminent race war and social collapse.
But what was really going on was a couple of kids in a garage inventing the personal computer, and the gnomes at the DoD creating an embryonic computer communications network. The Soviet Union was in fact stagnating into collapse. Sensible conservatives in France, Germany, and Great Britain turned the entire direction of government around.
I don’t know what’s really happening now. The virus and the dreadful, purposeful obnoxiousness of Trump obscure everything. (His record is actually pretty good, but the failure of style is so colossally catastrophic that he has to go. I shall cast my superfluous vote for Biden, and when K. Harris inevitably takes over, hope that she learned some political moderation from Brown in addition to other stuff. Trump has to go if we are ever to have sensible political dialog again.)
But there may be all sorts of good stuff happening technologically. Our educational system, particularly higher education, is going to be permanently affected. Good bye credentialism, of both kinds. UBI will be with us, and that will be interesting.
The story never does end.
I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness - yeah, and a little looking out for the other fella, too.
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