'how are you doing?' a question i'm commonly asked by acquaintances greeting me. it often annoys me because the easy and expected answer is a lie. i'm not doing well. how can one be well in a sick society of ignoramuses sleepwalking their way to extinction? of obstinate irrationality and political dystopia? oligarchical greed and ruthless ambition, numbing inequality and injustice, corruption and abuse of power, cruelty and indifference to the suffering of others? a world in which one must become numb to such suffering, since it's always in the news. wars, famines, refugees, ecological collapse.
one must be an ignoramus or a lunatic to not know or care about such things. i'm a part of this world. if it's fucked up, i'm fucked up (my shersonal life is deeply fucked up as well but that's another story). so i'm not doing well.
i'm most disturbed by the growing perception / conviction that my species is very stupidcrazy, something not taught in schools because the teachers are part of the problem. and that i'm virtually alone in this awareness, so i have no one to share it with. thus this lonely unread blog. the thought that eventually i will attract readers is weakening if not dying.
irrational to ludicrous optimism by supposedly rational and well informed sheeple deeply disturbs me. they're in complete denial. this characterizes the supposed 'radical left' of the democratic party led by the likes of bernie sanders. he's currently touring the country with aoc rabble rousing progressives with empty promises like how we're going to have universal healthcare. no timetable. sometime between now and when hell freezes over, i guess.
nobody wants to know how bad things are. nobody but me, it seems.
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