Diary:

[degringolade]

 
Don't Know What It Is

 

Maybe it is just that I have been "warned" about the country going to hell for so long that I really don't listen any more.  I have been watching the academic asshats at the "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists" shriek their dire warnings for their imaginary clock being "closer to midnight" for my whole adult adult existence.  Hell, I even remember huddling under my desk in first and second grade at Wilson Elementary with Mrs. Stanford terrorizing us with certain doom because of the godless commies (obviously I knew nothing about atomics or or commies so I filed them under the same category as I filed other boogie men).

Nope, I am just tired of that kind of shit.  Maybe it is the awkward fact that I am finishing up my term riding the biological/societal joyride that everyone has prepped for me, but folks have been telling me for decades that it is all going to hell in a handbasket and I now believe them but realize that there isn't a damn thing I can do about it.

My generation, for the most part, is mortally offended by my mental model of history being a sinusoidal thing.  I was fortunate enough to be be introduced into this shitshow at the crest of a wave whose 𝛌 is around twice the length of a fat, dumb, and happy American life in the 20th and 21st Centuries.  But whether you like it or not things have been riding the entropy train and for the life of me, I don’t see any way we can reverse direction.  

But I can’t say as I am all that concerned about the high-probability that there is a “Bad Moon Rising”.  We have lived through a lot worse in the centuries before us and, depending on just how far we are from trough (my best guess is 5-8 years) we have a long time ahead of rising fortunes following the end of the shitshow phase we are heading into. 

So, I am thinking that we just need to get back to work preparing to build the new while others finish dismantling the old.  Mostly it is just a time to keep aware of your surroundings, collect your thoughts and try to stay out of the worst of it.