It's Worse Than You Think: Halftime Between Two Lost Decades

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2. Its your third paragraph....

Wish I had your insight. Pretty much mine compares to Vonnegut in "Harrison Bergeron"'s normal intelligence. Can see the pieces but not put them together in a coherent manner.


Was it in Ayn Rand's "For the New Intellectual" she uses the term "human ballast"? Assuredly that is the perception of the "1%" to the 99%. WE have the numbers, but that doesn't produce sanity or change. The ONE thing my Democratic party has always driven me nuts with has to do with the layers and multi-focus, we get so busy consumed with our personal focus, we are the perfect target for being "divided" not by our differences but by our difference's impact to a platform, plan, intent.

Perhaps the best we can do: I really am one who rescues turtles. Can't recall it ever being some goal that was set. But they are the "least among us". Still every time I stop my vehicle to carry a turtle across the road in the direction his head is facing, there is this moment of wondering if somehow in the gust from a passing vehicle he got turned around.
Not long ago in the same week, it was the same very Large Red Eared Turtle, returning from the direction I had carried him across the road from. Loaded the Big guy in my car, and drove to a neighbor's , they have a small creek flowing in front of their house. Learned yesterday they have seen the big guy several times, and he seems to be doing well. The creek empties into a cove of the lake. Perhaps, she concludes, the BEST we can do is to care about the least among us.