Will all these disasters all around us, make us more empathetic, or less? This essay "All these Simultaneous Disasters Are Messing with Our Brains" tackles the subject.
There is the sense that the ship is sinking.
We are going thru a slow-motion disaster, on all fronts. Much of this can be chalked up to the Looming Climate Catastrophe; fires, floods, pandemic, mass migration, famine, drought, incredible heat, melting permafrost, species dying in droves. You know it is a long gruesome list of mayhem.
Add in the story of our Human Idiocy across the board, and well, it's an Ugly Stew. You are gonna want to cry, maybe you want to laugh too. The world, reality, really is messing with our brains. And you wonder if our brains are up to the challenge.
Beats me.
I don't think I'm gonna solve the riddle this morning. One breath, one step at a time. Be here now. Smell the roses, sip the coffee, listen to Cat Power on the CD player. It seems a bit paltry, and off target. But you know, that's life. Damn the torpedos.
