My Fear We Are Becoming More Demented And Berserk And Divorced From Reality As A Nation Every Day.

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3. Just a few minutes ago I was just overwhelmed with exactly this feeling. What drove the nail

right into my skull today was the fact that someone can say he has "no regrets" about killing another human being, the he experiences it as "god's will." He can say this sitting calmly in a public place where all kinds of people are getting extremely well paid to facilitate his saying this. And the conversation proceeds as if it's just another day in the life, which it actually is, in the world we're in now. And the donations to his fund will spike.

I know you are talking more generally about politics, but it all seems of a piece to me. I'm sixty-eight years old and I have of course been deeply pessimistic about politics several times in that long a life. But today it came over me that we're in a new level of meaninglessness here.