tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-855802737317865685.post7362317485316160976..comments2024-02-24T15:58:56.712-08:00Comments on The Good Typist: Gloom TrainKristen McHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03467256747399406710noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-855802737317865685.post-22476975583057977972020-12-03T12:16:43.955-08:002020-12-03T12:16:43.955-08:00Probably round about 1980 was our last real chance...Probably round about 1980 was our last real chance to avert multiple environmental disasters... since then it's just been, "when do we hit, and how hard?" <br /><br />I've gradually gotten over my dismay that we didn't decide to avoid these things, and now I'm just curious to see how we respond. We've been lucky in having a relatively mild disease for our first-round global pandemic... maybe we'll take the next one a little more seriously. Hard to know.<br /><br />Our political dysfunction here in the US probably looms larger than it needs to. It's local and temporary, even if (as I guess) it gets worse before it gets better. <br /><br />I don't know if democracy or the human race survives the next century or two, but on the other hand I don't have any huge affection for either one of them. If it's time for them to go, that's okay. On to the next thing. The things I cared about most are already gone, so I can face the future fairly cheerfully. It's not what we were taught to expect when we were young, and Progress seemed to be on an unstoppable winning streak... but we were taught a lot of nonsense, it seems.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-855802737317865685.post-73984121855685612432020-11-30T16:31:40.046-08:002020-11-30T16:31:40.046-08:00GreatGreatKhyali kandpalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05814231236614202062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-855802737317865685.post-7792016638607868992020-11-30T08:06:12.153-08:002020-11-30T08:06:12.153-08:00Great post! Great song, too!Great post! Great song, too!masterpoethere@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05152556826227951399noreply@blogger.com