The Half-a-Brain Guide to all the Answers You Need

Easy answers to tough questions.

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There are a lot of questions being posed all around the internet and in the news that have one answer: NO.

There are actually several answers that will cover you in almost all cases, they are:
No shit.
Absolutely not.
Not a snowballs chance in hell.
We won’t.
They won’t.

If you pick one of the above and apply it to any question that asks should we, could we, or would we, you will be on the mark.

One title, that is more a statement than a question, Rich People are Becoming Less Willing to help with the World’s Problems, can be addressed with, “no shit.” This statement is like someone asking where the sun goes at night.

Another one, Can the World Address Climate Change Without the U.S.? is just a flat out no. If the world wanted to address climate change with or without the U.S. it would have done it by now.

I’m not sure what is driving these authors to continue to ask questions that have obvious answers, perhaps it’s because if they thought about it for a moment they would realize that the question is moot, which would also make their article moot.

Maybe they get more views (and we all know how important that is) if they offer some sort of pablum about humans still having some say in what is going on.

This situation is one of the reasons it is getting so hard to write about collapse. Anyone with half-a-brain knows what’s going on.

I had thought about creating a niche that would be writing, extensively, about why it’s hard to continue writing, an idea that’s as doomed to failure as my idea about creating a club for misanthropes.

There’s a guy I know who wrote a story where he talked about people looking at their ancestors and realizing, “they were who we are, and what happened to them happens to us.”

That statement recognizes that people would not or could not effect any meaningful change, and if given a choice would choose comfort and stasis over anything that might impact their current living arrangements.

This is a situation on steroids, because a large percentage of the population wants more than anything to have the clock wind back to a time when they could be complacent and uncaring, and will engage in any behavior and belief system that allows them to maintain that fiction.

The authors who recognize that and are capable of sleeping at night after publishing yet another article advising their readers that we can fight this and providing “solutions” that a third-grader on acid could come up with (That’s actually unfair to third-graders on acid) are most likely doing quite well.

We have moved past doom fatigue and entered into the arena of everything fatigue.

Staying psychologically sound is like trying to catch your breath after you’ve been knocked over by a big wave and are being pummeled mercilessly by water and sand.

The “hope” that we have right now is limited to one of two options, we’ll be able to get our footing and push toward the surface to grab a breath before going under again, or we won’t.

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