Reply #14: If you look at most of recorded history it'll scare ya too.

[stellanoir]

One of my favorite quotations is "insanity is a sane response to an insane world."

However I *do* differentiate between gently playful magical thinking versus the short sighted, selfish, greedy, hateful, intolerant, hypocritical, inhumane, unconscious, cruel, unenlightened, disingenuous, and utterly deceitful behaviors that are given platforms and are on parade in our allegedly representative leadership and mostly paltry punditry.

The dumber manifestation of insanity has had me energetically paralyzed intermittently and thoroughly flummoxed throughout the last decade as well. I've known most of my life that government was corrupt though I never thought it would be so blatantly so.

I also sensed that things would get worse before they got better but never thought we'd fall so far so fast. Then again I blogged in '03 shortly after our not so excellent adventure in Iraq was launched that we were witnessing the fall of Rome redux.

Now that the mercenaries have been suitably enriched they're having "fire sales" as they gut the equipment from the bases in Iraq while our educational standards erode, our infrastructure crumbles, and the middle class goes "poof." Oh joy.

Every Imperial power throughout history has largely been undermined by the same influences. Ahhh. . .Those would be the hubris of some coupled with a populous lulled into a false sense of complacency and wrongly presumed powerlessness.

So it has gone.

I'm deluded enough to believe that it simply doesn't have to be that way any longer.

Maybe just maybe superpowers are no longer appropriate for this still new millennium.

Maybe I foolishly talk to too many furry and feathered friends.

Look maybe try to not buy into the fear. The pseudo powers that be spread that like a blinding veneer to obfuscate their nefarious deeds and to avoid their more than obvious direct and indirect culpability.

Not only have they demonized muslims but all migrant workers and people of alternate sexual persuasions whilst perpetuating the need for the former (slave labor) and often repressed and/or masked the latter's proclivities within themselves.

Humor is the best deflector of fear of which I am aware. Sometimes it's tough to sustain levity in the face of all this crap but it'll get ya through I promise.

Don't let the suckers get ya down.

Whenever I have a client who says that they're scared I say "BOO" really loudly and then smile and they laugh and then I say "there I'm glad we got that over with. Now what do you want to talk about. . .?

Chin up. This could get really interesting.