Thanks for this. I believe the positive and negative aspects of our current reality are unevenly distributed. That is, yes, the plants in the garden are growing fine, the sun is shining, and the waves are crashing on the beach. The weather here is better than any other place, and the physical characteristics are pretty outstanding. So there are positives.

Politically, it looks like they've decided to implement dystopia, and most people are just accepting it as the new "guidance" from their boss. That seems like the concentrated feed of the worst aspects of reality has become the new way of life outside my front door.

Where is the civil war? Why are the people openly doing this not being assassinated? The lack of any resistance to the end of our society is a real doom-pill. I've always wanted to be wrong about our species, but I would have to be on drugs to ignore what's happening.

If all you read is bad news, your vision of the world will become distorted and you will start to see things as hopeless.

While this is true, sometimes the only news about certain aspects of reality is bad. Most of our species are herd animals, who follow any orders given. I've been seeing extreme examples of that outside my door and on the internet for the past 1.5 years.

Maybe I need to recalibrate my expectations, as they seem to have become unrealistically high back in 2015. Even though Trump admitted the day after the 2016 election that he lied to get elected, I did kind of get sucked into the fantasy that humans are more than they are. That hopium is a hell of a drug.