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There's a difference today. A calm confidence has appeared and it pinches the cheek of lucidity like isopropyl on an outlook oboe. Whatever it takes. "We want our freedom back, man". There was that time when Revolution 'n Rock & Roll to save us didn't seem as ludicrous. That was before all the 1% understanding. This country is the 1% of the planet. The planet is the 1% of the known universe. The pale blue dot should awaken even the dumbest mind that we're charmed to even be around in the non-hospitable air of space. Now I get it when those lawn order people back in the 60s said "we don't want things to change". It changed because inertia is not a belief - it's there whether you get it or not. The stupid is what needs revolutionizing. Much too much discerning about who deserves what. Shake it first then be amazed by insight.
Dwelling on the rite of passage years needs to be story like.
The sunrise acts like a certainty to even the baffled. All of this "the world is in self-destructive turmoil" pretends Mesopotamian neolithic shit 9000 years ago never happened. This strife is the big one, Elizabeth. I'm guessing but I think they said that so many times so long ago. I bought into to it 40 years ago because of Viet Nam but I was one of the stupids then. Maybe all the living helped me understand that you have to know what sweetness is if you have any chance of bypassing the idea of revolution and going directly to dolce far niente.