The Workings of the World

We’ve covered games, movies and TV shows, but now it’s time to truly earn the lifestyle blog title. I’m not going to pose from my high horse in my comfy home and say that I know all the inner workings of the world. Life is hard out there for a working class slime such as myself. I know what true struggle is because I’ve lived through not knowing where my next meal would come from and a couple of weeks with no active plumbing. I make just below the national poverty line based on the United States so it is accurate to call me a lower class slime. I enjoy serfdom to an extent that I don’t like being in charge of people and I don’t find myself to be a good leader. This doesn’t invalidate what I say though as I see myself as a good second in command or an advisor of sorts. If you ever thought what person would want to be a Vice President then you found them, sorry I’m a slime. 

The workings of the world I will begin to talk about shortly is an American world. Hate it or love it, it is undeniable that America has been a global superpower for eighty years. There were only losers in the cold war but people like to believe that the United States won when the Soviet Union fell. But it may just be my dumb dumb American brain but Russia is expanding all it’s land to the previously held lands of the Soviet Union and the current sitting president of the United States has a wife with Putin on speed dial. All I’m saying is we don’t feel much like winners anymore and that’s because we never were. The double nuking of Japan was a signal to the rest of the world that we’re willing to go that far but it left the world in a state of war and turmoil. To me it was an egregious act that has no moral justifications and made global warfare the norm. I’m not some preachy fool that is unaware of humankind's long and bloody history, I bet most of you reading this don’t know that around 100,000 years ago the norm was eating each other. Violence will always be part of human nature because we are animals. Fighting is just a primal urge like loving and surviving, we need conflict to drive ourselves at times. To divide man from beast is like trying to visualize the difference between saltwater and freshwater. Yes there are some minute differences if you look hard enough but they are still made of the same parts one just has a little extra than the others. 

So what are you supposed to do now that I’ve laid out all of humanity in two tiny paragraphs? Why did I mention America, Russia, the tragedy of nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Well these are very good questions that I promise to answer. . .You’re not getting out of this one Gerdy. Okay so I don’t have anything grandiose or original to tell you. Life is an experience that you should try to enjoy to the best of your ability. That means getting help when you feel you need it but also working with others to try and make it so that people in the future don’t have to try as hard. Some will work against the tide and we all have the desire to just watch the world burn but no one knows what to do with the ashes. Your life doesn’t have to have a greater calling or even matter to anyone else as long as it mattered to you. We are finite beings that have a definitive end so try your best and if you feel your goals are good try everything to fulfill them. If your goal is to just watch the world burn then take a seat but I for one will continue to strive forward until the bittersweet end.