January 13th, 8:54 am. Restless sleep, weird dreams, mood fluctuations. I guess life is not about smoothness and ease. That’s a different place. I’ve had that before. I enjoyed it probably not enough.
I watched a lot of people on social media upset about our corrupt/authoritarian regime. Gosh, who saw this coming? Evidently not enough of us.
So what do we do as having seen it coming and now being in it. Today, so far, I’ve put in a load of laundry. I made a list. I’m having dinner with a friend tonight.
I looked up the definition of the word mantis. It is Latin for prophet. Any insect that holds their “hands” like praying is a mantis, a prophet. I wonder how many insects are praying these days.
I don’t know if we need prophets, but we could use several prayers.
We can all do work in our spaces, local, where we live. Mostly that works. There are some spaces globally where people can’t do it very well or safely. How do we be everywhere. I guess we don’t.
The big problem is propaganda. Propaganda, when you look at it is especially simple and finely tuned to people’s pleasure center, no more like their sensation of “I’m right,” or “I’m validated with enthusiasm”! No further discussion needed.
It really satisfies.
I just read where it’s not the jobs, housing, wages, healthcare, and so on. It’s the lonely. Loneliness is everywhere and it’s the giant problem that underlies the other problems.
I don’t know how to fix lonely and we do really need better wages and healthcare and all the stuff that makes living better.
Yet it appears we do have a huge lonely problem and I can believe this is a big source of manipulating votes for the absolute worst people to govern a civilized, healthy nation.
Thanks for doing anything supportive for holding up our communities, the people, animals, waterways, and not least of all, the praying mantis.
One last thing, invite someone over. Call a friend.
