How would you describe this era?

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Nothing wrong with being analytical. I'm a pretty analytical person myself.

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"How Would You Describe This Era?"

Hmm, i Asked A Squirrel Munching on Free Sunflower

Seeds We Provide Outside my Bedroom/Office/Art Window,

Nestled on the Concrete Perch, Surrounded By Climbing White

Roses, and Brilliant Variegated Red And Green Shrubs Exploding

Into Spring Life

As Leaves From

Deciduous Trees Burn

Green With New Birth of Life

RiSinG in Living Trees Still Evolving Growth

Against the Backdrop of Cool Azure Blue Sunny Skies;

Oh Yes, Real 'Gardens of Edens' Do Exist Still For Those Who

Still Create and Enjoy Them For Real, Bringing Back to Memory

What my Great Aunt Jettie at 94 Told me at 47, During a Truly EPiC

Empty SoULeD 'Autistic Burnout;' All the Pain and Numb Without the Colors

For Real Left

in my Organic Soul;

She Grew Up on the Beach,

Homesteading With Her Father, my Great
Grandfather in the Early 20th Century; Holes for
Windows And OutHouses With only iMaGiNaTioNS

And Human Voices to Carry For Stories to Entertain All
The Colors of Humanity; Still So Soul Deep Then And Real to Reach Out and Touch;

So Frail, Crippled With Walker Yet the Power of the Mind As 'Soul' Over Matter; Yes, For

Real Bio-Feed-Backing Her Pain to Go Away For Real; Her Emotional Strength Carrying

Her Through Hours Long Poetic Voice of Song of A Life Well Spent in Colors of Life;

She Said, "i Am So Fortunate

To Go To the Refrigerator

To Have Ice Cold Juice, Milk,

Or Water" of Her Choice of Course

That Didn't Exist on that Beautiful

Beach in the Early 1900's of the Smile

of A Young Girl of Wonder and iMaGiNaTioN Free

Yet You See if i Turn the TV off, if i Turn the Computer

Off; Yes of Course it Helps to Be Financially Independent 'Booming'

in That Financial Way Free At Least; These Are the Best of Days Never Stronger Or

More Creative, More Loving And Happy Than Ever Before Reaching 63 on June 6th...

And It's True,

i Do Exercise

Still Both the 'Spock'

And the 'Van Gogh Go' of me

As Reason Holds Hands With Art of Creativity...

At my Finger Tips Practically Free; True, With Almost

A Total of 400 Dollars A Month to AT&T To Connect

in Every Media Way, Most All the Arts And Sciences Ever At my Finger Tips

To Absorb And Synthesize in Brand New Arts and Theories of Science too;

the Same

As Free
Association
And iMaGiNaTioN

Does and Will BRinG True And Or False...

This Era For Humanity is One of Tremendous

Change in Both Destruction of the Nature Around

Us (Yet No Sign of that at all in my Real Forest Deep
Garden of Eden Home) And Potential For Human Evolution

And Growth in One Lifetime, Like Never Before Where Freedom Still
Rings For Those

Who Discern

What Works

For Them and

Actually DO Evolve Still

in One Lifetime to the Best of their Abilities...

Not Much Has Changed Really; Some Adapt

Thrive and Survive And Some Do Not;

If You 'Think' Life is Fair, It is Not;

If You Don't Find Life to Be

A Gift, Keep Seeking

Till You Find That Or Not;

There are Many Other Opportunities

on Cold and Hot Rocks in Space With No Colors

on the Outside or Within For Those Who Seek to Live in Dead Places...

OBTW, The Squirrel Completely ignored me; If i Get Tired of the 'Other World'

i'll Just

Turn on the
Off Switch and

Continue to Thrive
in A REAL Garden of Eden at Home All Paid Off

For Now At Least on the Outside and Within For Real...

The Greatest Success of my Life and My Wife's Life is That the

80 Year-Old Cashier at Walmart Insists on a Hug From Us Each Visit...

In 'Real Life'

i Tend to Go Naked
Enough Whole Compete;

And the Hell with Machines,

Unless i Need to Get Somewhere

Or Use This Fancy, Dancy, Singy, Typing

Machine to Communicate With the Smartest,

Most Beautiful And Creative Souls All Around the World...

Bottom Lines...

It All Works For me...

Key: Master The Tools;

And Do Not Become Mastered

By The Tools or More Tool Than Human...

It's Quite A Challenge i 'Know;' Particularly

For Those Still Slaved As A Part of A Cog in A Machine to Even Eat and Drink...

Anyway, It's All About Perspective; One Person At A Bus Stop Living in 'Hell;' the Other in
'Heaven' For Real (Not Unlike Sitting With my Great Aunt Jettie at 94, in Her Living Room at age 47,

Where She Was Actually Still Living and
i Was the Living

Dead For Real)

Or the
Vast
In Between...

True, As i Observe 'the
Crowds,' 'Purgatory'
Seems Most Relevant...

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I think we're f****d, or at least the West is.

Western Civilization has been hijacked by idiocrats and kakistocrats who are selling us all out.

We're screwed. Game over.

Possibly, but we have to try and save it.

This world isn't worth saving.

I think we're too close to the era we're supposed to be describing to be able to see it very clearly. Time will tell.

Not that I do a lot in the way of characterising eras. The experience is different for each individual. Personally I've seen enough strange local weather to make me think this global warming thing is really happening, which is worrying. Beyond that, nothing much seems very different to the way it's always been. There's probably been something of a right-wing drift since the 1960s when socialism seemed to be just around the corner. Jobs seem rather harder to get, even naff jobs. Living standards seem to be getting a bit worse for most of us. One good thing is that we've got the Internet now, so we can look up answers to questions and communicate with others more easily than we could.

It could be worse.

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I agree with this. I think much of the reason people are so distant from one another is difference. Plus social factors come into play. We also haven't really learned to appreciate other humans' company beyond a small handful of people who've broken our glass ceiling, and I do think technology is partially to blame. But I also feel that we don't value life nearly as much as we could. This hypothetical sounds ridiculous but it tests how you view life in general. If a fly were to enter your room, would it upset you or would you embrace the fly as you observe that other life has entered your space? Most wouldn't view the fly as an ally, but a distraction. Some would be in awe and embrace the fly.



This is a really great comment.

I kind of view this era as the age of polarization, loneliness, materialism and narcissism. Obviously a very bleak outlook but kind of applies. Not just the ubiquitous neuroticism found on the internet but the lack of communal welfare, introspection and philosophy. It's sort of like pieces of what made us fulfilled are slowly being forgotten about entirely as our planet continues to devolve. One of most common things you'll hear someone living at rock bottom say is that nobody cares about them.