It’s Bad, But How Bad Is It?

It certainly feels bad, but all is not as it seems.

Photo by MJ Blehart (from the author’s favorite t-shirt)

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…