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3 comments:
Blame globalism. You go to complain about something that rudely interrupts your best laid plans, and all anyone can say is, "Get in line." There is nothing individual or personal about the negative anymore. Negative is the new positive, like 60 is the new 40, although we all sense there is something kinda suspicious about that.
Or just whistle a happy tune.
No, I don't blame globalism. The zero-sum universe couldn't care less about politics and such temporal matters. This is a cosmic matter ha ha.
I didn't really mean political globalism--more that we are all in the same boat, some sitting in the deck chairs, others just serving. Ship of Fools, Ship of Fools II, Ship of Bigger Fools. Do you really believe in a zero-sum universe? Physically? Dust to dust? Spiritually? Ever had a transcendent experience that suggests...uhh...transcendence?
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