AN INTRODUCTION...
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Retired, but not too retiring, a work still in progress.
I enjoy many things: Music (making it & appreciating it), balance (within myself, in my relationships, and in my world), Tai Chi (practicing & teaching), cooking (especially for friends), Dancing, Karaoke!, teaching, mentoring, reading, some crafts...and trying daring things on my birthdays.
I've been single, married, now widowed, but not forever.
I thought I was straight; found out I'm not; am happy about it.
Believed in God, then god, then Universe; now happy not knowing and just being stardust until or unless I find out differently.
I Could Weep: Arguments in Favor of a Human Extinction Event
The world is insane.
I think it might be endemic to the human species...not sure I'm using that word correctly..
I can't figure out if we can survive and/or overcome what we have become..this day is may 19, 2024.
And I think we (humans) have always been this way. survivalists. And I am afraid of the Survivalists living in my own town & forest.
Humans are (seem to be, to me) tribalists, racists, bigots, misogynists, patriarchal arrogant elitist SOBs.
I don't see any evidence of a trend for improvement. In fact, I believe that I could build a case for a long-term, consistent decline in human happiness, and in the qualities of fulfillment, relationships, personal integrity, focus...anything that might provide some reason that this species - human - should survive beyond the next 10-20 years.
We are destroying the planet; killing each other; and teaching our children to close their minds for one reason or another...imo, mostly religious ones.
Don't even get me started on that one... at least not tonight.
Posted by Kate on May 19, 2024 in Current Affairs, Journal , Social Commentary - Mine & Others' | Permalink
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