A few weeks back I was in the pool. It was pool weather!!!! Then I went back to only being outside to take the trash out and other tasks. I can’t for this cold front and weather to go away.
The world gone raving mad or I have. I just think we were not aware of just how much insanity really was in it. Now we are reminded every constant moment. The world will just seem more and more dishonest and disgusting as the population increase. Crime could be down but you could hear triple the amount of news about bad things happening. I fear I’ll still be around when we are stuffing to such overpopulation that there are global wars over water supplies. It’s already running out in a number of towns. Even most sea areas are not prepared to extract water from the oceans for drinking purpose.
As far as what I stood up for as a kid. I was the nerd with glasses. I avoided trouble as much as I could as it was easy to spot back then. All I cared about was math, science, and playing the violin. Sadly, I care very little about those things these days. Trouble is also much harder to spot as well.
Maybe the world has always been somewhat mad, but with the advance of technology the pace of the mad has gone crazy. Besides, "bad news sells," or as they say in the newspaper industry: "if it bleeds, it leads."
Bad news, however, can also be a tool. I am not a conspiracy theorist or tinfoil hatter, but there's a definite purpose to serving us a steady diet of violence and disaster-- it keeps people in fear. And people in fear are manipulable. And they do "reactive" things, rather than think things through. If we live in a "post scarcity" world, there's no more need to be afraid, and they we become less controllable.
Aside from my strange sense of "social justice," I was mostly the weird kid in the corner who kept to himself, as far as it was possible. In one sense, it was a blessing to be almost 6'2" by age 12-13-- it made me "scary." On the other hand, the knuckle draggers (who measured everything in terms of brute strength) saw it as an opportunity to pick a fight for "territorial" reasons.