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Yes! We need more of this message. Shout it from the top of the mountain.

No human being is “garbage,” and no one will improve from being shouted down or shunned because they speak an opinion one does not agree with or care for.

The world is beautiful and cannot be controlled or subjugated to one’s political leaning, not does it care for the judgements or complaints of people. Just as the moon is beautiful and constant without needing validation, life is magnificent and if a person cannot see past their own ego to realize this then it is on them, not the world.

I was a far left lefty, but mainly from an anti-corporate globalization stance and against systemic policy that harms a group based on traits they cannot possibly have a choice in (skin color, biological sex or growing up on “the wrong side of the tracks”).

I have found that white conservative men have been far more accepting of my views, as they are carefully thought out and not based on disenfranchising one group to benefit another.

Conversely, the shaming and vitriol I have experienced from the lefties or progressives I used to organize with on various environmental or political issues caused me to disengage from such efforts and such people.

I see up close how generations behind me are taught to throw shade on everything that isn’t entrenched in politicizing and celebrating victimhood, and it is obscene.

Life is beautiful, if you can get there. And that is each person’s challenge. It is not for someone else to hand it to you on a silver platter. And without obstacles and suffering and loss, nothing would have much meaning. Just a flatlining, monotonous journey to nowhere.

I pray for solar storms to knock out satellites so people have to remember how to live without all the distractions and junk that amplifies all their complaints about life. It’s so ironic/hypocritical to hear people that wax poetic about how primitive cultures lived, while simultaneously wanting to cherry pick what they want from modern culture and never actually bother to learn any of those primitive skills they speak so highly of on their social media pages.

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