There are people who say that the world is worse now than ever before.
However, I think the world has always been crazy just in different ways always.
Like when I grew up in the 1950s it was PTSD, The Korean War, then in the 1960s and 1970s, The Viet Nam war where more people born my age died there than any other age. This was crazy in a more visceral way than now from my generations point of view because we were dying then in Viet Nam and were being forced to go there against our wills. If we didn't go we could be put in jail or in some cases executed.
However, from my point of view then and now getting drafted and going to the Viet Nam war was more than anything usually an execution. In other words whether you physically survived that war or not you were going to be one of the many walking wounded the rest of your life. So, just getting drafted and being sent to Viet Nam was an Execution of your whole life to begin with whether you physically survived that war or not.
Then people took drugs to cope with being (executed) and brought all these drug problems back to the U.S. with them if they survived all this. And the PTSD killed thousands of people and their families and their friends back here on the mainland.
The point is that life has always been insane.
The ONLY real question becomes: "Can you find a way to survive the Insanity of the world as you find it or not?"
This really is the question for everyone on earth.
"Can you find a way to survive the complete insanity of life here on earth."
Learning to be pragmatic is the difference often between life and death at every stage of life.
Here is the definition of Pragmatism:
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