Markit wrote
You use the term "crazy shit" 4 times - is this some technical term or a metaphor for something?
I suspect you need a few years Bali time to regulate your "crazy shit" meter.
The couple of things you mentioned are just echos of other similar "causes" that seem to be reverberating around the internet continuously in ever changing colors.
In my view the problem with modern society (western) is that so many sad and useless people are on continuous look out for the next big cause to follow be it Gaza, Global Warming, Gender, Ozone, AI, etc. etc. ad infinitum. The real problem is most of them know absolutely jack shit about their chosen cause and are happy in their ignorance.
Have you ever noticed that once a "cause" is found in NEVER GOES AWAY! Racial equality/black equal rights - sorted, but still a "cause", Greenpeace Save the Wales - sorted but GP still collects money, Gay rights - they've been legal pretty much everywhere now forever, for fecks sake they can now marry!
If that's the "crazy shit" you mean I suggest you just relax, grab a cold one and keep watching cause the next "cause" is coming up on us now.
Okay, I suppose there are different degrees of what I term as crazy shit, but I choose to lump everything together under the crazy shit moniker because for most of what the liberal left advocates or endorses I just can't fathom a logical reason why they would other than to destroy a country or society to progress some other agenda. For example, what could possibly be the purpose of having a drag queen story hour for 5 and 6 year olds at a public school as one of the more egregious examples. The list of examples is long and shameful.
You mention spending a few years in Bali to regulate my crazy shit meter. Are you referring to getting calibrated against all of the crazy shit that occurs here to provide a new frame of reference or marking a few years here to ratchet down the anxiety level? If the former, after working in places like Angola in the early 90's during the civil war, Kazakhstan not too long after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Nigeria in the Niger Delta to name a few, I've seen my share of crazy shit and compared to those experiences, the direction society is heading really concerns almost verging on terrifying me. If the latter, I think the only way to ratchet down the anxiety level would be to disconnect from the internet and go into a more or less outside world information blackout.
You mention causes never go away. Look no further than the internet and amplification or manipulation by social media. The masses are being trained to be lead and obedient.
I'd say we've flogged this subject enough wouldn't you say?
Let's talk about food. My family and I are at our villa that is for sale in the North and I brought a whole cube rol for grilling. I think I'm going to cut it into two and cut individual steaks with one half and will roast the other half w/ low heat and some smoke. I'll post pics of the beef and the sides that I haven't dreamed up yet on Balifrog's running food thread. I've missed my Kamado grill.
