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It’s Bad, But How Bad Is It?
It certainly feels bad, but all is not as it seems.
It’s impossible not to recognize that things are bad in many ways for many people. On a big-picture level, there’s the awfulness of the current state of the Israel/Palestine dispute, the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, a United States Supreme Court that cares more about the religious beliefs of a few over science, not to mention a candidate for President who should be in prison for a lot of super blatant crimes. It’s depressing, frankly.
Then, when you start to dial it in from the big picture to the next level down, it gets no better. While taking a walk today I saw where a neighbor couldn’t be bothered to pick up their dog’s poop, garbage clearly just dropped along the path, and numerous other signs of the growing lack of kindness, compassion, empathy, and (apparently) acceptable rudeness.
It’s easy to let these overwhelm you. Look at the news, social media, and numerous other sources. You and I are utterly bombarded with this idea that it’s all going to shit, the bad is overwhelming everything, and the bad is getting larger and larger.
Greed, control, waste. Abuses of systems, tools, resources, and people. A mental health crisis that’s being ignored because it’s taboo and/or not profitable. It’s all really, really bad. Right?
