Will there be any unity of purpose in the US? It's not looking so. [johnpavlovitz.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Every bit of this has been forecast over and over for a couple of decades. When the environment starts to crumble one of the first things to go is the political systems. Unfortunately, instead of trying to understand we scratch our heads and wonder who to blame. We are all to blame and will not succeed until we learn extreme changes need to be made.
JackPedigo
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May 14, 2020
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Well the author certainly has no problem identifying the source. Of course if we didn't live in a society so rife with income inequality it might be harder for someone like Trump to fan the flames of resentment. A culture which placed more value on being educated and informed wouldn't hurt either.
MarkWD
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May 14, 2020
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This doesn't address the article directly, but hopefully relates: since Trump was elected, I've enforced my own personal news blackout...no print, radio, or TV media. I get most of my news here on this site, and thank you for the information!
I think this has helped me retain my sanity and positive outlook, because I did recently peek into MSNBC and was struck by the incredibly dour, negative tone...I had no idea!
I CHOOSE to believe things will be improving soon, because our own personal head space is the only thing we truly control, and I have enough problems without concerning myself with things I can't do anything about.
That's Stoic philosophy in a nutshell. A lot of people here would do well to read up on it.
Storm1752
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May 14, 2020
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@Allamanda It COULD, if one believes a glass-half-full attitude better draws others into the desirable viewpoint and perspective. People who are off-putting, negative, pessimistic, unhappy and cynical (to name just a few unpleasant traits) turn other people off. They think, "If they're so miserable, why should I listen to THEM?!?"
If one is cheerful, etc., people want to know how and why.
Life's too short to be an argumentative, hateful b------!
@Allamanda Are you ANNOYINGLY cheerful, as if despite genuinely bad news? Possibly counterproductive!
I sure that's not the case.
No I, almost to a pathological degree, AVOID bad news because to allow most or every bad piece of information to seep into my subconscious brain would possibly drive me STARK, RAVING MAD!!!
IF I may, I doubt there will be unity of purpose over something as diffuse and abstract as a virus. Maybe if it turned people into flesh-eating monsters it'd be different.
Things as abstract as a deteriorating enironment doesn't seem to be immediate enough to drive us into each others' arms...
Maybe a detonation of a thermonuclear bomb (or two, or three) would be a gigantically spectacular happenstance of sufficiently destructive power.
How about GOOD things? Well, if a man came down from the sky on a cloud we'd all be thrilled, many of us surprised...
Extraterrestrials landing on the White House lawn? I'd feel very unified!
Cure for cancer, a world disarmament treaty, limitless nuclear fusion electricity, a better mousetrap...many things could give us the fuzzy-wuzzies warm enough to push us over the edge into overwhelmingly benevolent love of all mankind.
I'll withhold judgement, but I'm POSITIVE technology will solve all problems, and quickly, once their profit-making potentials are realized.
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