Something in my senses has lost the trust in what is going on in the totality of human life on earth. It is all incoherent, chaotic and collapsing. Life seems to have lost its fundamental survival impulse. I sense that the fulcrum of social power has abstracted itself from the fundamentals of basic life and … Read more
There seems to be no coherence left in the current habit-patterns of normal life. I was thinking about the hard work of going on vacation. The easiest vacation is to stay up-to-date at home. But the thing is, the manifestations of chaos are just beginning to take over daily life. We are in a ‘stay at … Read more
Western life won’t return to what it was before. There remains a broad abandonment of ‘we are all in this together’—life being about “me” rather than “us”. I sense an unwillingness of many to trust that the ‘other’ can be relied on to do what is honest and right—having been corrupted by the abuse of … Read more
What is different today from the 1929 economic crash that birthed the Great Depression, or the Dust bowl that brought devastating hardship to the midwest of America from 1931-1939? These past events have much to say about major changes in human life, including World War I, the passing of the 19th Amendment giving women the … Read more
Avoiding knowledge, facts, and hundreds of years of science, is one way to live. If you do choose to live that way you certainly have everything you need to avoid anxiety of the real, and most importantly, what you feel/believe won’t have to compete with those annoying facts. “If I don’t have knowledge of it, … Read more
The pathology continues, as the collapse into chaos intensifies. One aspect of this mayhem is responding to it in an irrational way. A rational response would be to get information about it from reliable sources—rather than turning away from it. Having a sense of what is coming affords us time to prepare, as best we … Read more