IF YOU ARE WALKING ON THIN ICE, YOU MAY AS WELL DANCE

 

The world is mad.  But in my memory, the world has always been mad.

  

There is anarchy in the country – there has always been anarchy in the country.

 

There are violent people in the world – there have always been violent people in the world

 

There is social unrest – there has always been social unrest.

 

Political groups don’t cooperate, so nothing gets done, except the rich get richer – it has always been that way.

 

There is war on the horizon – there has always been war on the horizon when we are in the interlude between wars.

      

This is the normal chaotic human condition.

  

The human race is the despicable alpha predator of this earth era.  As individuals we are amiable enough, but as a species we are deadly.   Our only saving grace is that somewhere in that 3% DNA that we differ with our first cousins, chimpanzees, we have been able to create music, art and literature.   

 

Listen to the Ol’Buzzard: There is not a fucking thing, as individuals, we can do about the chaotic condition of the world we live in.  We can try to ignore the crazy; or get caught up in the crazy, obsess about the crazy, and go crazy. 

 

Today is yesterday’s tomorrow.  We are all allotted three score and ten on this earth, and as we get toward the end, we realize how much of our time has been squandered.   What a wonderful thing life is, but it is finite.    The beautiful things we ignore, as we are caught up in the chaos of our species, we can’t go back and retrieve.

 

So what is the answer?  There is no answer.   You put your right foot in, you put your right foot our, you put your right foot in and you shake it all about. You do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around.   That’s what it’s all about!

 

Our thoughts should go out to our brother blogger The Blog Fodder in the Ukraine who is caught up in the insanity of human instigated chaos. 

 

Did I run and Am I tired?

the Ol’Buzzard