World History

I am sure it is tedious to the optimists among us, but my thoughts and mind are torn into dystopian hell as the natural outcome of the events unfolding by the hour.

Free speech? Tell that to the vicitims of abduction and deportation for opinion piece authorship or protesting. Tell it to the news organizations that watch helplessly as their owners and managers capitulate 100% Tell it to the universities that are being treated like the mark in a mafia shake down..."nice college you got there, be a shame if it lost its funding".

Leadership in science and technology? Not any more. Firing the best and brightest to give more money to the richest is not a recipe for success - it is the Jonestown Kool Aid being fire-hosed into the public.

Allies and a post-WWII security order? Gone.
Friendship and peace on the North American continent? Gone.
Security at home and abroad? Gone.

Honestly, the longer I interact with the current events and the world these days, the more depressed and hopeless I become. Without losing myself in reading - fiction and biographies mainly - I am afraid I would go quite mad.