Great post Hurm, thanks.
I think maybe you're right about this. I've been heavily involved with Facebook in the last few days, I have a reason for being such a sad bastid, forgive me :).I need interaction with people and since my stroke loneliness has been a fear of mine. It's not as if I don't have friends, I have many, but their spread all over the UK and the world. So I don't get the daily 'craic' that I kind of took for granted when I worked, I miss it. Facebook is a way to connect, however inefficiently and whatever your view of it.
I put up a post saying how I couldn't vote for either presidential candidate, I don't really care about the consequences. My wife wrote on her page last night protesting at the latest shenanigans that looks like delaying Brexit,( she voted for Brexit). She predicted the friends who moved in a blur to show how little the fiery Irish woman understood about Parliamentary Democracy. It was like catching fish in a bowl! She understands exactly how things work. One doesn't have to know anything about parliamentary democracy to do so.
I woke this morning in fine form, I had a spring about my step. (Metaphorically only, I am disabled! :D) And I had one overriding thought in my head which I felt may have been behind my frivolity. It was 'Let go and let God'. I had the real feeling that things weren't in our control any longer, if they ever were. Many of my/our friends are bright people, two of them that responded to her post were/are strongly in favour of Remain, she's a Doctor, he's a Director with post graduate degrees. Opinions appear to count for nowt any longer in my view, no matter what qualifications, or how 'important' or intellectually superior the person expressing their views may seem. When I hear fear driven protests from all directions, against or for whatever, on the tv, I have stopped hearing distinct voices. Now it often sounds like white noise - and it feels good hearing it in this way?
Events in the US and the UK both seem to have taken on a life of their own. Logic and reason from all directions don't seem to make any difference. 'The election' and Brexit are now off the leash. The chaos creators are in full control!
To get back on topic, I feel comfortable in seeing all these world events in a spiritual light. Trump really does seem to me to be here to teach us a lesson, Hillary too. Trump has revealed our hypocrisy, with 'nice, good people' despising him - but falling over themselves to promote and to vote for someone who, in a way, is just as bad as he is! If a nuclear WW3 does come to be, it will only be evidence that Karma is real.
That might be a last thought worth considering when we see the blinding flash. ;)
I'm strangely at peace with things. Right, Big Man - Let's see you in action.