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Gun nuts–what can you do?
Anything you can, I guess–even if it saves one life.
America has a love affair with guns and you’d have as much luck convincing them to give that up as you would their oil. Guns, global warming? Non starters in this country. That’s the sad truth. We won’t solve either problem. Certainly not in my lifetime–in this generation.
It doesn’t matter how many mass shootings or family murders or stray gang bullets hitting an innocent victim occur. It doesn’t matter how many ice caps melt–how high the ocean rises, or how many polar bears perish.
There’s a Don DeLillo book called “Point Omega” and there’s a quote(I can’t remember) that says something along the lines of “consciousness is tired” —that it’s ready to pack it in. That it’s winding down.
I get that feeling sometimes—that humanity’s clock is ticking faster than anyone realizes–that this human experiment will go down as a big FAIL. Maybe something better will replace it–maybe just nothing will replace it and like much of the universe or all that we’ve seen so far–things will just be dead and cold in the end as the universe goes dark–and this little failed blip will be long forgotten.
Now–who wants ice cream?
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick
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