SITUATION NORMAL
The human social condition is
like war: there have always been wars and there will always be wars; the
weapons change; the venue changes; the participants change but the results is
always the same: people die.
The point I am making is: I
am 70+ years old and I have seen it all before.
There has never been a time in my lifetime when everything was not
fucked up. My first memories are of the
Second World War – then the McCarthy era, Southern states rights and segregation,
the Korean War, the Cuban crisis, the Presidents assassination, Vietnam War,
integration struggles, race wars, Nixon, Clinton ’s
blowjob, Russia , the Cold
war, Bush years, Iraq
It is amazing that we have
the internet and we can express our frustrations and incredulousness with the
state of our individual worlds; but nothing has changed and nothing will ever
change. The players will be different,
the venues will be different, the crisis of the moment will be different; but
the world will remain fucked up – that is the natural order for the human
race.
Most individuals are basically
decent people; but as soon as we pack – we heard up – we take power over others
we become corrupt. That’s who we are.
It is hard to find something
positive to blog about – perhaps cats.
But in the meantime my blog will join the majority seventy percent and
continue to express wonder at the insanity the human race brings to bear
against itself.
There is a ZEN story about a
man on a journey that builds a boat to cross the river then drags the boat with
him for the next hundred miles.
It is good to be cognitive –
it is good to be aware – and it is fine to be troubled; but let us remember we
all have eighty-six troubles and let’s not drag the boat once we have crossed
the river.
Have a good day
the Ol’Buzzard
There is a reason I have a blogroll of Sanity Savers. When I start to feel like there's an excess of negativity in the world, I go to Cute Overload. Hedgehogs, kittens, otters, piglets, puppies. . .
ReplyDeleteWell said!
ReplyDeleteHah, your zen story about the man building a boat and dragging it 100 miles made me think of my favorite Italian Spaghetti Western the original Django! Except the dude was dragging a coffin through the desert and there was a circa post civil war machine gun in it....It was great when he finally opened the coffin.
ReplyDeleteI need to find that quotation from Jonathan Swift about how humans are the most contemptible and evil vermin that have ever cursed the earth by existing. There's truth to it. But not the whole truth. I guess that's the point.
ReplyDeleteWhat's always been interesting to me is how people are fine alone but as you say, put them in groups/herds then they are very much a different beast. I've never understood why this is so.
ReplyDelete"Wherever we go ... it is thus."
ReplyDeleteor!!! when in danger when in doubt ..run in circles scream and shout. repeat.
ReplyDeleteSome people are only happy when they are bitching about something.
ReplyDeleteWell, since I started blogging again, I sure have been adding to the gloom and doom. as to the human herd...Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
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