People run around like lunatics. “It’s just crazy. I’m so busy.” This may stave off the anxiety of not-having-enough.
Or not.
Something bigger may cause this out of control train behavior.
I think of the Europeans I know, some Asians, stressed too, but not as crazy upset, overall, as we tend to be. Additionally, they are more morbid, or honest, about the truth of their demise---as a person, a species. They’ve been through a lot. Now, it’s just all about living well enough to feel life and to know that death is imminent.
In some ways---Americans seem to have it harder. Are more ramped up. Eat shittier. Work longer hours. Have less deep but more relationships. Is this frenzy, which looks difficult at the surface, easier to maintain than a calm acknowledgement of exisitence-death?
Seems to me.
We are so immature. But damn creative.
Calm us, Jesus.
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It's all about growth, which, of course, is never enough. More housing starts, more profit, more consolidation, and more people. Thomas Friedman had an Op-Ed on Tuesday with the headline, The Earth is Full. Some guy is saying the solution to climate change is working less! Having leisure time! What a novel idea!
Mother/Judith
We are a Puer Nation -- all about the ego transcending Matter and discarding the Shadow.
Our denial of the inescapable fundamentals of matter has allowed us to soar to some extraordinary and impressive heights.
But it has also made more than a few wings melt at a blast of our own hot air.
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