The World Is A Joke

Yes, the world is a joke ... but it isn't funny.

Superpower Russia has invaded Ukraine, an independent neighboring country that spent decades under oppressive Soviet domination, as the Russian megalomaniac president seeks to restore the country's domination of eastern Europe. Ukrainians, military and civilians alike, have done a remarkable job of fighting for their country against overwhelming forces.

A Russian athlete at the winter Olympics, who tested positive for a banned drug, was allowed to compete but not to win a medal. Apparently the pressure and the controversy affected her mentally, as she repeatedly fell during the competition, placing a distant fourth.

Truckers and others in Canada and elsewhere felt it was their right to interrupt commutes and international trade because they oppose vaccination and mask mandates. Boo hoo hoo.

Crime rates in the United States continue to skyrocket. 

Attacks on women's reproductive freedom are proliferating through more and more states. 

The threats to the American democratic form of government continue to bring us closer and closer to becoming an autocracy.

The number of states passing legislation designed to reduce voting rights for minority voters is growing.

We continue to treat the planet as if it will always be there, ready to support the human species despite being polluted, overpopulated and despoiled.

We continue to attack each other in the name of greed or religion or some other unimportant offense to our beliefs..

The state of Florida has rejected more than 40 percent of math textbooks because of its obsession with 'critical race theory.'

At least in the US, our former sense of community has been replaced by a prevailing 'what's in it for me?' attitude. Shoplifting, home invasions, car thefts and other crimes are skyrocketing. And we cannot overlook skyrocketing gun violence.

I don't like what this world, this country in particular, has become. 

Humans are supposedly the most advanced species on the planet. We need to start acting like it.