every so often i am struck by the epic stupidity of the people around me. i'm not talking about my family or my kids or my ex wives or anything like that. i'm talking generally about the folk i share this great green all of wonder with. i do not have a specific example in mind right now, but i am shocked by both their displays of it, and my tendency to forget that people are, by and large, pretty f*cking dumb. that happens more often than i'd like to admit. and i always wonder how i let myself believe they aren't.
i'm no genius. i'll be the first to admit it, though i doubt i'd beat any of you rushing to agree with that assessment. i consider myself pretty level headed and stable, and i guess i just assume everyone else is kinda working on a similar level. that's the only way i can justify my continued forgetfulness of our shortcomings as a species here on planet earth.
people and the decisions they make are beyond my understanding. i understand point of view, but for the love of God, there is right, there is wrong, there is what is best and what is going to lead to disaster. i suppose the discipline to make the decision even at the cost of our own comfort is what trips people up.
why are we so selfish?
every so often i get a sense of just how utterly out of control we all are, and the thousands of choices we make daily we owe much to chance and circumstance. i'm starting to believe what my dad calls free will is merely a fragile strand of faith.
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