Endurance

The history of humanity is one fuck-up after another. I see no reason to think the future will be any different.

What perplexes and amuses the vast audience in the arena of ideas is that modern social conflict primarily consists of sociopathic philosophers, psycopathic nihilists, and delusional do-gooders. The apparently inescapable paradox of the modern human condition (as a consequence of the accumulated traumas, grievances, and ideological baggage of human history) that is inexorably leading humanity to an increasingly discordant future.

Acknowledging the reality of this situation is the first step in contemplating initiatives consistent with the rule of reason in a distinctly unreasonable world.

Hysteria
Euphoria
Depression

alternating between flattery and disappointment

• ·         U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (RFK), with approval of U.S. President John F. Kennedy (JFK), authorizes FBI wiretap on Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK).
• ·         MLK leads Civil Rights movement March on Washington.
• ·         JFK assassinated.

• ·         Gulf of Tonkin incident leads to U.S. invasion of Vietnam.
• ·         Civil Rights Act passed by U.S. Congress.

• ·         MLK leads Selma to Montgomery march.

• ·         MLK opposes Vietnam War.

• ·         MLK assassinated.
• ·         Race riots erupt across America.
• ·         RFK assassinated.
• ·         Chicago police riot against war protestors at Democratic National Convention.

American history, like other human relationships, apparently goes through love/hate cycles.

1967 Summer of Love
1968 Chicago DNC riots
1969 Woodstock Festival
1970 Kent State Massacre

Everyone has their limits and shortcomings.