Writing

 There are many forms of writing as you can see. Writing can be a way to understand yourself, to heal yourself from things hard to understand in your past. For example, I wonder if democracy can survive anywhere on earth during Global Warming. People are getting so crazy and lacking common sense it seems.

As people get more distracted and fearful during global warming I wonder where civilization is going to go next?

There seems to be a real lack of common sense in the world right now of finding what is actually important beyond individual wants and needs. There doesn't seem to be the common sense that once seemed to prevail like it once did.

Intelligence without common sense after all is just another form of suicide.

When I was growing up in the 1950s it was pretty obvious that most people were crazy. They had been driven crazy by the Great Depression and World war II. I found growing up in the 1950s pretty boring as people with PTSD from the Great Depression and World war II tried to find enough peace to stay alive and sometimes succeeding and sometimes not.

Then came the 1960s which were crazy in a whole new way which can only come from plenty and privilege. A 17 year old then if he was white could buy a car, a house, and support 5 people pretty easily (even without a college education) where as now even a college education doesn't necessarily bring certainty to a person's life.

I think in the end it is becoming an opportunist looking for opportunities that seems to work the best.

It's not really about college per say it's about learning how to benefit from living on earth enough to survive.

It isn't about working for other people either, it's about working for yourself and maybe starting your own business or businesses. Otherwise, you just become a victim working for other people ripping you off in some way.

So, learning to survive in this world is no easy thing and some succeed at it and others don't.

But, I think it was always this way.

I was told I could be anything and do anything when I grew up but mostly I just found thinking this way sort of confusing from too many choices more than anything else.

Then I traveled the world and met people whose families had lived in the same place in the same house for 1000 years or more and had to rethink in some ways how I thought about everything. Because these people  had often also done the same work as their ancestors too for thousands of years.

As an American that is sort of hard to fathom.