GAIL'S BLOG

The Golden Age of Stupidity

I try to gain wisdom over smart as I age in place.  I always thought wisdom was less in supply than smart.  We have many smart people who just aren’t wise.  We have individuals with numerous degrees or credentials.  They became well educated in specific areas but they never became wise.  Maybe that is why we see the outpouring of stupidity we see today.

I recently read an article from the Wall St. Journal  regarding  the Golden Age of Stupidity, (written by Lance Morrow, August 30, 2021) that nails the idea of our glorious state of stupidity.  We don’t have to look far to see numerous examples of it.  A large most recent example is the withdrawal from Afghanistan.  An older version was the long deadly war in Vietnam.  Another modern day stupidity is the refusal of millions of people to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus.  It makes one …

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Let’s Remember to Laugh and Dance to Love

What a crazy funny week this has been. I have to laugh at the nuttiness of it all. Just when you think

the world can’t get worse in the news or social media or any media, you remember a few basic tenets of our current life. This all will pass away. All of us will someday too. So, it behooves us to think on the things that are beautiful, wonderful and kind. The news will just always be negative because that is what sells and people like to be scared or angry or right. The news is plastered with the ending of this phase of Afghanistan’s evolution. It is plastered with covid counts. Gosh, I can’t read them any more. It’s plastered with shootings, car accidents, droughts, excessive heat, floods and other “acts of God”. How about inflation, lack of housing, homeless souls and religious zealots. It goes on and …

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The Day of Reckoning Has Arrived

We humans love certainty, safety, dependability and trust. We have relied on our jobs, marriages, good health, our investments, our pensions and even our pets. We think we can control our lives by routines and good habits. We never think about pandemics, food deprivations (in the developed countries) and other devastating acts of God and nature. We depend upon this earth world for everything. We look for our perfect mate, our doctors to take care of us, if we can afford it, our jobs, our vacations, our happiness and leaders who will make wise decisions for us.

I can remember when it was possible for the average person to buy a home, go to college at reasonable tuition rates, raise a family and put your children in college without going into debt. This was actually possible. I also remember when cosmetics and certain basic pharmacy brands were not locked up. …

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