I've been petitioning for RFK, Jr. and what I'm hearing most from people under forty is that they feel like the whole system is corrupt and they are no longer voting (although if they were to vote, it would probably be for Kennedy, so I can sometimes get them to sign to get him on the ballot).
A Gallup poll last July showed that a majority of Americans trusted only small businesses and the military out of all of our institutions. All three branches of the federal government, banks, big business, the media, EVERYTHING else isn't trusted, and for good reason.
We have an Administration and Congress that are actively supporting a genocide because of a combination of bribes from the Israel lobby and delusional dreams of global American hegemony. Neither will do ANYTHING to help the working and middle classes when their standards of living are in visible decline.
Is it any wonder that Trump is starting to look comforting to many people? Is it any wonder that decent human beings, even lifelong Democrats, can no longer support the Biden Administration?
The main thing I have done for mental sanity is just think very local. And by that I mean my neighborhood in Santa Cruz and in Hilo. I put a lot of energy in my immediate neighborhood and neighbors. It's very satisfying. As for the nation, yep - you nailed my thoughts. That said, I know my streets will be good come what may, and I am very thankful for that.
Well, a physicist friend of mine just wrote an article about the alarming increase in climate scientists who say that the most accurate predictions are just exponentially worse than anything most of the public is aware of.
He also cited an impressive number of climatologists who say they have come to the conclusion there is NO tech solution. At least one said the only solution is for human nature to evolve.
I had the feeling from the first time I saw your first post-liberal post, that somewhere in you was an inchoate desire to articulate such a radical evolutionary possibility.
I believe, in spite of your current trepidatious stasis (great phrase, by the way) it is still there, waiting to be fully born.
(note - I'm not sure it's relevant but your trepidatious stagnation brings to mind Dr. Herbert Benson's first foray into mind-body medicine, which he initially conducted in a basement lab where his physician colleagues wouldn't mock him, and which he described as engaging in with "much trepidation and foot-dragging" - I wonder if the fear of letting out one's deepest heart's desire, for a truly radical newly evolved populace, might keep us from embodying such a vision.
I've been petitioning for RFK, Jr. and what I'm hearing most from people under forty is that they feel like the whole system is corrupt and they are no longer voting (although if they were to vote, it would probably be for Kennedy, so I can sometimes get them to sign to get him on the ballot).
Totally share this sentiment, thanks for articulating it so well!
A Gallup poll last July showed that a majority of Americans trusted only small businesses and the military out of all of our institutions. All three branches of the federal government, banks, big business, the media, EVERYTHING else isn't trusted, and for good reason.
We have an Administration and Congress that are actively supporting a genocide because of a combination of bribes from the Israel lobby and delusional dreams of global American hegemony. Neither will do ANYTHING to help the working and middle classes when their standards of living are in visible decline.
Is it any wonder that Trump is starting to look comforting to many people? Is it any wonder that decent human beings, even lifelong Democrats, can no longer support the Biden Administration?
The main thing I have done for mental sanity is just think very local. And by that I mean my neighborhood in Santa Cruz and in Hilo. I put a lot of energy in my immediate neighborhood and neighbors. It's very satisfying. As for the nation, yep - you nailed my thoughts. That said, I know my streets will be good come what may, and I am very thankful for that.
Well, a physicist friend of mine just wrote an article about the alarming increase in climate scientists who say that the most accurate predictions are just exponentially worse than anything most of the public is aware of.
He also cited an impressive number of climatologists who say they have come to the conclusion there is NO tech solution. At least one said the only solution is for human nature to evolve.
I had the feeling from the first time I saw your first post-liberal post, that somewhere in you was an inchoate desire to articulate such a radical evolutionary possibility.
I believe, in spite of your current trepidatious stasis (great phrase, by the way) it is still there, waiting to be fully born.
(note - I'm not sure it's relevant but your trepidatious stagnation brings to mind Dr. Herbert Benson's first foray into mind-body medicine, which he initially conducted in a basement lab where his physician colleagues wouldn't mock him, and which he described as engaging in with "much trepidation and foot-dragging" - I wonder if the fear of letting out one's deepest heart's desire, for a truly radical newly evolved populace, might keep us from embodying such a vision.