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Journal: May 13, 2010
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written today Seas of Knowledge

Maybe I am crazy, staring out the early dawn window, smoking dope, watching the day begin from the birds to the people to the sky. But if I am, or am not, the word doesn’t bother me. I know, I know, it’s not PC; hmmmmm, let’s see? Mentally disabled? No. How about mentally handicapped? No. Some crazies are very gifted mentally, so what about Mentally Ill, Yes, just right.

That makes it an “illness” that should be treated by doctors and drugs to make to make the “illness” go away, or at least not get “worse.” But what if we like it, even as we commit suicide or some such “socially unacceptable” act.

The hurried up, stressed style of life we applaud in this culture maybe self-eliminating. (Tragedy of the Commons). With such a lifestyle have come, among others, two things: economic “progress” and falling birth rates, currently below replacement rates of about 2.1 in several European countries. Or perhaps it’s a self-preserving behavior to bring population growth under control.