re: Have you been affected by how crazy people are?

Ignore it, be myself.

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It's like everybody has lost their mind

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i'm trying to figure out if my ennui happens to most all people at this age or if this society truly is regressing. knowing history, the latter is more prevalent than the former.

i like to scan fb to keep up with friends and to see how creative/intuitive people can be. what i observe looks like serious degeneration. i'm astonished at what people allow themselves to believe and what they are willing to express.

a prominent example is the occupy democrat propaganda graphics. it's so obvious that they are half truths/intentionally misleading yet people act like they've actually discovered some incriminating truth. it's pathetic and absurd.

what's worse is the class of animals out there. just read the fb comments to the recent fight in b.r. tigerland. there's no reasoning with these people.

the insidious beliefs about islam are mystifying. there is a sect of violent muslims who desperately want to kill all infidels, including moderate muslims. it has nothing to do with jobs, wealth, water or any of that western nonsense. it's purely religiously motivated. yet, libs continue to think that if we would just "get along" or patronize them, these problems would go away. it's beyond naive and ignorant.

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How do you people cope with it?? I honestly don't know how to handle people anymore

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otoh, last night, i worked a shift with about 10 young guys of different races. they were all cool, civil, conversational, joking, helpful, etc. same with the ladies that i work with. i consider them my friends. what i see on tv/etc, i just haven't experienced irl.

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I feel like nothing is sacred or true

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it's easy for us to let skepticism become full blown relativism. G. K. Chesterton-

"“But the new rebel is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist. And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the doctrine by which he denounces it. . . . As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is waste of time. A Russian pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed himself. . . . The man of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella and goes on to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are beasts. In short, the modern revolutionist, being an infinite skeptic, is always engaged in undermining his own mines. In his book on politics he attacks men for trampling on morality; in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on men. Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything.”

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I find myself seriously questioning the existence of good because of this bullshite.

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the fact that you understand what evil is means you necessarily have a preconception of what good is. since that is the case, good definitely exists or you wouldn't know of its existence.

to answer your question, yes. i absolutely have been affected by this tumultuous time. but, my life continues to be peaceful and rewarding.

I work in the mental health field, so...yeah.