How is everybody holding up?

[usonian]

31. As I posted, I post action items and satire.

Action helps one focus on the positive.
We don't need to completely ignore the negative --- there's always MORE THAN ENOUGH of it.

Humor and satire give a different kind of boost, and ridicule is the dictator's biggest pain.

Some efforts get great big LOL replies.

Others meh ...

But both of them keep me from being gloomy.
If you feel down, connect with someone else (DU is good) and get going on something,
Action stops the gloom, even if it can't stop the negatives.
And when we act together, even the negatives can be lessened.

I lived through the Cuba missile crisis, the civil rights era, the assassinations, Nixon, the frickin Vietnam War, tons and tons of crap.

I guess that Thoreau and Mark Twain helped me get through it all.

Stand up to bullshit and ridicule the bastards dishing it out.

Read "Walden"
https://ia800504.us.archive.org/35/items/24299993-thoreau-walden/24299993-Thoreau-Walden.pdf

"Civil Disobedience"
https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/files/2017/10/Civil-Disobedience-by-Henry-David-Thoreau.pdf
and

"Letters from the Earth"
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~mvz/bible/ltrs-from-earth.pdf

I got mighty iconoclastic.
Lovin every irreverent minute of it.