Things are getting scary. I don't really know what to do. It feels like my country has gone completely mad. Empathy and reason feel forsaken. Some things incite protest, journalists point out what looks like insanity, and at first I'd agree and feel some vindication that perhaps all is not lost. Now each article, each sign held up, feels like just another example of powerlessness and inefficacy. Screaming into the void. We've become everything I was taught we shouldn't be and those fighting seem to be doing so in vain. I don't really understand what's happening or what can truly be done.
Human society and history is a lot older than us and we are subject to forces set in motion long ago with very limited capacity to change this.
And human nature is a problem priests and moms and governments have been working on for a long time with very limited success.
It's kind of like when it's raining. You can't really get mad. It's a natural event that happens as the result of a proceeding sequence of actions and will eventually play out. So put on a rain coat.
I'm not advocating for helplessness either. We have to do what we can to improve the quality of human existence. That's our whole job. But acceptance of the scale of our lives and efforts and our current place in space and time I think is peace. We can't look at things in isolation but rather as how they connect in a series of cause and effects.
Sorry for the ramble. Just trying to discourage agitation. Agitation doesn't it make it stop raining and renders us less able to deal with it.