Canadian Politics Today

I am broken.

A lifetime news junkie, I have started avoiding listening to the news for the first time.  My feeling is that the culture is broken, that we haven't been forced to listen and engage with each other politically for a long time - with "media" forging a kind of middle way for too long.

The fringe elements have come in, and demanded we listen.  Fair enough but they are not here to deal.

As such, I am looking for new answers.

Latest idea I am exploring is 'Metamodernism' - basically acknowledging the discoveries of postmodernism but taking them back into modernism.

I'm with you.  Shady is taking a break, I thought about that, with the sun shining after another long winter I'm thinking of taking a break too.  Too much negatively.

I'm hopeful because despite the angry fringe online and on TV when I talk to most people in the real world they seem pretty reasonable about everything.  Angertainment gets the retweets and ratings, being uncontroversial doesn't.

I'm not religious but I believe in the simple beauty of the universe.  I also believe people are like celestial beings with the power to emit light into the universe like a star does, or suck all the light from their surroundings like a black hole.  Which one we choose to be is always up to us, and the light always wins out because it's life affirming and life creating.  Much harder to create a newborn through hate, and it won't survive long if not cared for.  Evolutionary psychology.  Love and creation are the building blocks of the natural world.

What if God (or whatever force created or makes up the universe) is neither male nor female, but both. And what if it's only when man and woman come together mentally, emotionally, and are ultimately physically fused (when a sperm enters the egg and a new life is created) that for that moment we become like Gods.  Ying plus yang, night plus day, a perfect whole.

Hope your family is doing well Michael .  Maybe we should all spend more time with ours instead of worrying and arguing about all this nonsense so much lol.