The veneer of civilization is very thin. My own experience has shown me that a great number of people, some of them relatives, friends, colleagues, church-going people (!) are actually very unprincipled and selfish to the extreme. Is it the human condition? Are we being manipulated into become zombies (rhetorical question)? At any rate, knowing this does not make life any easier. To end on a more positive note, thank you for the information in this article, particularly the piece of advice about sharing a safe word with your love ones. Great, thoughtful work!
Thanks for the lovely comment. If you look back in history, yes, I think selfishness and deceit seems to be the human condition, with the exception of a few honorable figures that stand out. It's our responsibility to rise about that natural tendency, and those handful of folks show us that it can be done.
Amazing revelations , statues, safe words and getting ahead of the queue. I have been tempted to use that ploy at Airports 😂They are so confusing and tiresome.
Travel will not be possible soon with all the mandatory bio metrics coming in. That solves that problem.
So true, @Courageous. We have resigned ourselves to driving most places and removing international travel from our lifestyle... which is fine. Between the airport hassle, the cost, the inconvenience, the throngs, and soon the social credit carbon score that will be linked to air travel, we'll just hunker down and keep writing.
The veneer of civilization is very thin. My own experience has shown me that a great number of people, some of them relatives, friends, colleagues, church-going people (!) are actually very unprincipled and selfish to the extreme. Is it the human condition? Are we being manipulated into become zombies (rhetorical question)? At any rate, knowing this does not make life any easier. To end on a more positive note, thank you for the information in this article, particularly the piece of advice about sharing a safe word with your love ones. Great, thoughtful work!
Thanks for the lovely comment. If you look back in history, yes, I think selfishness and deceit seems to be the human condition, with the exception of a few honorable figures that stand out. It's our responsibility to rise about that natural tendency, and those handful of folks show us that it can be done.
Amazing revelations , statues, safe words and getting ahead of the queue. I have been tempted to use that ploy at Airports 😂They are so confusing and tiresome.
Travel will not be possible soon with all the mandatory bio metrics coming in. That solves that problem.
So true, @Courageous. We have resigned ourselves to driving most places and removing international travel from our lifestyle... which is fine. Between the airport hassle, the cost, the inconvenience, the throngs, and soon the social credit carbon score that will be linked to air travel, we'll just hunker down and keep writing.
We have one big trip planned for next year, it will be our last Global foray. We have checked and no Bio metrics yet, so hopefully it will be ok.
Then we will be willingly hunkering down as well.