I was reading email correspondence with a friend. We ranted on current scary events. I replied to her vivid description of the ongoing fall of this republic: "The world is insane. I thank you for reminding me as I had quite forgot." Her reply: "You're welcome." Understatement is good for friendship.
"Too long has the world been a mad-house."
ReplyDelete-Nietzsche, "The Genealogy of Morals"
I keep trying to find sane people, and it's practically impossible. The craziness has gotten totally out of hand. Even the people I thought were more or less sane have become lunatics.
ReplyDeleteCovid is making everyone crazy. The left, having gone woke, have become insane. In search of lucidity, for the first time in fifty years I've read and listened to the ideas of conservatives, and though not all of them are batshit crazy, distressingly many are. For instance, two times in as many days I've found some one among them declaring that people of a certain sexual persuasion should be summarily put to death, no trial or evidence needed. These people are scary.
Can we go back to 1971 please? At least people *seemed* sane. I'll settle for a reasonable facsimile.
Z
P.S. - That Nietzsche guy was on to something.
P.P.S - If I can't find any sane people, I may withdraw from the world and become a sort of hermit. It's kind of like being catatonic, in that you don't have to deal with people, yet neither do you have to stare at the wall all day and you can draw or do something else productive instead.
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Z... I share your same thoughts and observations. It's a wild ride and I fear it will become wilder.
DeleteBeing a history fan, I wonder what future history geeks will say of our era of madness. Besides noting that these periods always happen. They might point out that the tech of our time was unique in spreading it worldwide at the speed of light.
ReplyDeleteWhere once it took years then months then weeks days hours now it's moments. This is a new powerful throw of the dice for the power of the insane.
I've like you also been reading watching listening to conservative thinkers. Many make far more sense than I had realized...being in my commie bubble for centuries. However, like the left some are just as profoundly dangerously nuts. Elements within both sides may yet kill me.
I have few options.
Though you mention the hermitic life as a viable refuge. I was a hermit once. In this culture it called being impoverished/homeless. I don't recommend it. You'll miss showers toilets relative safety and warm beds. There's the Thoreau model. However, he did his hermitage within a network of securities.
Which these days most never had or no longer have.
So our Walden is tenuous.
As in this age it's threatened by insane mobs.
Walden as a kindly ideal is not hopeless but far more fragile.
Uh, yeah, I was thinking of a nice hermitage with a washing machine and some books, not a comfortless cave. Even Thoreau had him mom do his laundry while he was at Walden. I can understand this, as will anyone who's ever had to wash by hand every thread of laundry you wear for months on end. It's bloody exhausting!
DeleteI was speaking of withdrawing from the world in a psychological sense and not engaging with people too much, rather than a hardcore naked-monk-in-the-woods scenario.
Z
In some sense we many are already doing this. The Lockdowns are having an effect. For some an enraged resentment others contemplation. The refusal to return to non-living wage jobs is something our owners didn't see coming.
ReplyDeleteThey should have.
Plagues upset the balance.
Makes folks examine what's going on...because they have the time to think on it. The same with the more secure. We're all of us. The whole spectrum are re-thinking how we want to live.
Tho' yes that 30% as always just wants back what they had.
The rest want something if not better certainly different.
Our owners as #45 said want us to: "...forget about it and go back to work." ...unlikely.