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Re: Is anyone else just tired of it all?? [DavHamm] [ In reply to ]
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DavHamm wrote:
I have reached the point .. I DONT CARE ABOUT..

Trump
Covid
Protest
Counterprotest
Peaceful / not peaceful protest
Mask
Don't mask

Everything seems to be controversial or cause an argument..

There doesn't seem to be any stable center. Reminds me of a poem

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Politicians tilting one way and the next to the flavor of the week. Two weeks ago we were all urged to avoid crowds because if we didn't our fellow citizens would die.
And now police are told they cannot disperse them.

They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

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Re: Is anyone else just tired of it all?? [talking head] [ In reply to ]
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talking head wrote:
I’m paraphrasing but my favorite quote from writer Brendan Leonard:

“I used to want to change the world, now I just let people merge on the highway”

I care, but I get sick of the spin, the controversy, the all or nothingness, the unwillingness to compromise, the fuck you I've got mine.

Started well before covid and I don't see it ever getting any better.

So I just let people merge on the highway, makes me feel better.

I like Brendan Leonard. If you mean the semi-rad guy. Even better if there is a chart.

They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

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Re: Is anyone else just tired of it all?? [DavHamm] [ In reply to ]
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DavHamm wrote:
I have reached the point .. I DONT CARE ABOUT..

Trump
Covid
Protest
Counterprotest
Peaceful / not peaceful protest
Mask
Don't mask

Everything seems to be controversial or cause an argument..

Social media seems to be a big problem. It seems to suck the context out of everything. On social media you only see one little slice of someone but seeing that people seem to want to go for the jugular. Or it just becomes and echo chamber. I read somewhere that one reason privacy is important is because it protects people from being judged out of context. We seldom see the whole picture. Have a great day.

They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

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Re: Is anyone else just tired of it all?? [spockwaslen] [ In reply to ]
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Do you think we shouldn’t share videos on social media that share information that most of us wouldn’t get any other way.

Should we let the news organizations have exclusive right to share news? They have a professional responsibility to present full and truthful news, right?

I’m aware that I am intentionally contributing to the unhappiness of ST. I’m sorry for doing it.
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Re: Is anyone else just tired of it all?? [DavHamm] [ In reply to ]
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DavHamm wrote:
I have reached the point .. I DONT CARE ABOUT..

Trump
Covid
Protest
Counterprotest
Peaceful / not peaceful protest
Mask
Don't mask

Everything seems to be controversial or cause an argument..

I too am fatigued.

But I'm not sure we can be good people in today's society unless we are angry about something everyday.

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It doesn't really matter what Phil is saying, the music of his voice is the appropriate soundtrack for a bicycle race. HTupolev
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