In the scheme of things

Keep zooming out.

More, more, more.

See it?

The Greek civilization. Rome and all its glory. England, China and much later the US, CANADA and ROW as seen now. People love, hate and divorce. Kids abandoned, adopted and alienated.

Generations after generations. (personal) History repeats itself. In a cycle of self-destruction. It’s either self-inflation or self-deprecation. Nothing in between. Until one day, it ends after transferred onto the next gen. Then it’s recycled: used, abused and misused.

Give me one person who thinks “macro”, I will name ten who think “micro”.

No wonder we’re in such a mess: burned Maui, shot-and-killed schoolchildren, and week-after-week of self-litigation as a nation and people.

Keep zooming out. See? Those who see in themselves capacity and potential to rise above themselves lived on in history as great. Those who are petty, short-termers, and looters left behind “Amazon” cardboard all over.

Hint: sell those box-cutters. We’ll need them always.

Back to zooming out. See the cover-ups? I refer to the break-in at the psychiatric office of the “most dangerous man”, our “Deep Throat”. What do you think I was referring to?

Through the locks that got picked, we saw ourselves. Our debased and low life tendency to take without giving back, to loot without cleaning up after us, to loiter without wiping after the act.

So here we are. A messy mess. At global scale. Ejected and spent cases. Empty cartridges still hot and barely out of the nozzle. Rambo rage. “Do we get to win this time?”. Short and cryptic lines. All action. The revenge and rage of those who were abandoned, forgotten and turned invisible.

So help me God. I did solemnly swear…(to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic). What an ideal. By definition, hard to reach, to keep and to maintain. So help me God. Appreciate another day of living. Of wanting and seeing longer-term consequences of inaction.

In the scheme of things. We’re all short-changed. By our very selves. Who alone are our worst enemies.