I am not sure I can be bothered anymore. The world is a horrible place and I suppose it always has been. History tells us that it has never been any different irrespective of which age you lived in. This is just our turn and all the pleading for peace and harmony won’t change a thing. This is the human condition. I find all of the goings on in the USA utterly depressing and it makes me feel sick.
I’ve said it many times and I will say it once more whilst we continue to label and perpetuate the differences between us, it will never stop. We seem unable, incapable, unwilling or just plainly to ignorant to address the fundamental underlying issues that fuels all the hatred and prejudices. Those in power never really try to solve anything and so many times just make the problems worse. It is all our responsibility to change the world and we seem pretty piss poor at doing it.
Now days (just like I am doing now) we have all this space in the ether to spout out dissatisfaction to the world, some of it is read, much of it isn’t. We seem to think that having done so we have contributed our bit to voice our disgust at the events surrounding us. We have not.
In America what happens when you actually take action? You are brutally attacked by law enforcement fuelled by a President who hates his own people and views them as inferiors.
Even a man as verbose as I am becoming speechless at the insanity of violence.
On another note all pretence of social distancing has disappeared. Not where those rules are ordered and imposed such as a Supermarket but any where else where no supervision is required our ability to self-police ourselves appears to be non-exsistant
I have witnessed several groups of people gathered in places with not a single thought given to social distancing.
A friend of mine having requested two men to give him some space as they went past and he had to squeeze himself against a wall was viciously verbally abused by them and felt very threatened to the point where he thought they might hit him, fortunately it did not come to that but extremely upsetting and scary. Why?
I suppose in my world I could go on living day to day and in truth none of the things I write about really affect me. They won’t change my life. It is highly unlikely I will ever be involved in any of it. I am a white man so a racial slur won’t ever happen to me. I have a largely safe ordered life with enough of what I need to live and sit in the comfort of my dinning room typing these thoughts and opinions comfortable in the knowledge that I am completely removed from all the madness that goes on elsewhere! I am grateful. By dint of birth I have had a peaceful if not smooth life and have never experienced the problems that so many millions have to cope with.
We must understand that in the lottery of life some of us were winners!
Stay well
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