Morning Thoughts: Lack of Understanding vs. Lack of WILLINGNESS to Understand

Sunday, April 16th, 2023

Meh...

Welcome to another edition of "Morning Thoughts" in the afternoon. Because... we just don't do mornings, around here.

The Thing About Mornings...

Occasionally, I sit back and try to remember whether I was ever a morning person... voluntarily... and I mostly draw a blank, but that goes hand-in-hand with the realization that I haven't really had very many occasions on which I felt like "enthusiastically bouncing up to tackle my day!"

Last time I remember having that feeling was 2007-08 when I was actually making a living as a beachcomber, and it did make me want to get up at 5:00am to catch a receding tide and see what treasures the surf had washed up that day.

My enthusiasm pretty much waned by 2010 because by then I no longer had the morning beach to myself... but instead was faced by 10-20 other "morning warriors" who'd often get up even earlier than me... and it pretty much sucked all the joy out of it because instead of a "gentle stroll" it was now a race and competition for ever-dwindling resources... until it reached the point where none of us were getting much reward for showing up.

But isn't that pretty much how life works?

Do You Actually UNDERSTAND?

Lately, I have been more of less disgusted by the whole "storm in a teacup" surrounding the recent "incident" involving His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Google it, if you don't know what I'm talking about.

The whole thing just makes me sad, in much the same it makes me sad to read historical accounts of explorers judging and enslaving natives of other cultures for things like "not converting to Christianity," or condemning them as "evil" for believing that paradise was returning to the Earth, rather than going to the Heavens.

A simple lack of understanding is one thing, and certainly understandable when faced with something you've never experienced before.

What has always bothered me — and I mean that "always", because it started bothering me when I was maybe 5-6 years old — is how the vast majority of people lack the willingness to understand *(or even TRY to understand) things outside their normal sphere of perception.

Idiocracy, Here We Come!

Sometimes I can't help but feel that we are actually regressing, as a species, given the increasing incidence of extreme polarities we see all around us... along with the way almost anything can be turned into "fightin' words."

And that makes me feel very sad, for all of us.

Meanwhile, we are sequestering ourselves into increasingly small and fragmented "opinion tribes" that view anything external to our own (group) perceptions with an increasingly xenophobic and distrustful eye.

"They" Are Out to Get Us!

I got to observe some of that first hand, yesterday, when Mrs. Denmarkguy and I went to a local UFO study and support group meeting. Yes, we're interested in "that stuff!"

It started off enjoyably enough with sharing of stories, updates, new research and information... and then a few more strident voices started to focus the attention of the 50-odd attendees more in the direction of that invisible evil "they" everyone likes to point fingers at and blame for all our troubles... while offering pretty much zero evidence that "they" are even a real thing.

Before you know it, the UFOs flew off and were replaced by chemtrail and Covid conspiracies...

Another point of feeling sad, in the sense that many people seem to have grown almost addicted to being fearful and outraged... at something. and if there's no tangible something around, they'll invent a fictitious something to fill the gap.

Small wonder we have things like "fake news!"

And Now, For Something Completely Different...

I guess it's going to be a somewhat short entry today... because we have friends coming in from out of state, so we need to tidy up Ye Olde Homestead for the occasion. We sometimes like to joke that "it's a good thing we have friends, or this place would never get cleaned or tidied up!"

Yeah, that's a flip and humorous comment, but it's not that far off the truth.

Meanwhile... I am seeing a few raindrops out there, so I guess we'll go yet another day with without the fuzzy lawn getting mowed...

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Created at 2023-04-16 14:05 PST
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