Random Thoughts

[Paraselene]

It depends on what you, or someone else, considers "good". If you're living a simple life in a small town generally away from the disabling politics of the nation, a cup of coffee in the morning and a casual telly show in the evening will be good. If you're being mentally weighed down by others locked in constant political battle, focusing on "good" tends to be a matter of self delusion rather than facing reality.

And yet rural voters overwhelmingly vote Republican in an attempt to Make America Great Again, ostensibly to recapture a golden age when things were good.

Then allow me to correct myself in stating that we're all self-deluded to some degree.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Is the world just shittily designed, or are we just especially good at focusing on the bad rather than the good?

Option #2.

Professor Tolkien once said something along the lines that pleasant days and happy events are not something people especially want to read about, but things that are terrifying make for gripping scenes in a novel (he was being asked about the narrative pacing in LOTR).

Art imitating life.

Boru

[Paraselene]

Also, fighting the "good" fight tends to be a fantasy of the young who think they can accomplish what thousands of years of civilization has never managed. Unfortunately, as we age, we realize that there is no end to the fight. We either persist futilely until our dying breath or we choose to focus on other aspects of life that are more self-fullfilling.

[Paraselene]

Is the world just shittily designed, or are we just especially good at focusing on the bad rather than the good?

Option #2.

Professor Tolkien once said something along the lines that pleasant days and happy events are not something people especially want to read about, but things that are terrifying make for gripping scenes in a novel (he was being asked about the narrative pacing in LOTR).

Art imitating life.

Boru

It's why I write. It's the only way for me to reconcile my disdain for a society that never learns.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Option #2.

Professor Tolkien once said something along the lines that pleasant days and happy events are not something people especially want to read about, but things that are terrifying make for gripping scenes in a novel (he was being asked about the narrative pacing in LOTR).

Art imitating life.

Boru

It's why I write. It's the only way for me to reconcile my disdain for a society that never learns.

‘Whatever gets you through the night.’ - John Lennon

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Why is it that when I get a song stuck in my head, it's always a song I hate?

Boru

[Angrboda]

I don't know. I've had several songs stuck in my head lately, but they're songs that I like.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I don't know.  I've had several songs stuck in my head lately, but they're songs that I like.

Show off.

Boru

[Angrboda]

I don't know.  I've had several songs stuck in my head lately, but they're songs that I like.

Show off.

Boru

Even songs you like can be annoying when playing nonstop while you're trying to sleep or think.

[Angrboda]

There's an amazing circle jerk on X right now. MSNBC showed a video of an aerial shot of the No Kings rally in Boston. Some moron using Grok, Wikipedia, and reverse image search convinced themselves that the video was from 2017. So he proposed a community note, which, AFAICT, hasn't been approved. So now right-wingers at every level of the food chain on X are reposting the claim and raging about how the mainstream media lies, even though at present these are just unproven claims, and even Grok is saying that they're false. Never let a pesky thing like facts, fact-checking, or sources get in the way of a good story.