This is fine…
March 18th, 2024
I think that humor and my still strong thirst for knowledge are helping me to keep my head up. The situation — locally and worldwide — is not good. Anger seems bubbling and ready to spill out at any moment. The prospects for the next few months (and I don't dare to look any further) are bleak, if not outright dire. It seems that the breakdown of any social solidarity is a fact now, and the divisions between groups of people within the same locations and nations are becoming too deep to have any hope of common goals and aims. I don't like it. I don't like that those divisions are made even deeper so easily by chancers and grifters and media who only see their own benefit in it. I don't see a clear possibility of repairing what was destroyed between social and professional groups, with those who have the most muscles and who are the loudest coming up on top — not knowing that meeting their demand will mean impoverishing others, the most vulnerable ones.
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So I try not to think about it. I try to stay occupied with reading and thinking and learning. And searching for humor — and not any high-brow humor. Any silly, stupid, black, or gross humor will do. Something that will let me crack a smile. Maybe even laugh out loud a little. Let's see how long that will be enough for me.
