Made weak coffee
I wasn't sure how to make this coffee because I put two heaping tablespoons in the mug i made earlier, thinking it would be just like regular, ground coffee but this is instant coffee, so it is much more potent. I only used half a tablespoon this time, and it turned out drinkable, but a little weak. Oh well.
Dark times in America, they are. I read a story on Medium just now (a Medium.com exclusive) titled “Do Americans Know How Much Trouble They're In?” and it was an appropriate title because we, Americans, ARE in fact in a lot of trouble in regards to the authoritarian government that has taken over Washington D.C. I read the article in-full (and saved it to Pocket for future reference) and it was a sort of history lesson in the collapse of many empires in centuries past, but, one thing that I see, that may make this time different (stay with me), is not so much that it is democracy, itself, that we must worry about (though it is included in the cart), but the Earth and what will happens when flooding, amongst many natural disasters, continue to get worst and worse? Yes, to answer the question of the article I read, the answer most assuredly is “Yes, I know the amount of trouble America (and for that matter all of it's citizens, including me) is in.”
So...am I deflecting the “REAL” issue of American democracy being the main topic/issue worthy of the world's attention by saying that global warming and the immense destruction soon to face Earth's ecological system is the main focus HUMANS (all over the globe) should be concentrating on?
I say “No”. People need to look at the common sense fact that; without an Earth (a habitable one) to speak of, we need not concern ourselves with maintaining a democracy. Remember, democracy was just a “theory” at one point centuries past, and it was one that turned out to be a very effective, very powerful tool for the “progress” humans have made. But, like I have mentioned many times before, do humans “NEED” progress? We, ourselves, are not evolving. We are simply living day-to-day, doing the best we can, and our bodies remain virtually unchanged for all of recorded history (or at least since we created to tools to which retain a record, of...anything). So when someone says “the evolution” of modern-day humans (yes, we DID evolve from monkeys, and also, yes, that was a pretty fucking long time ago), they are confusing what they are perceiving as the “illusion” of progress-making with ACTUAL evolution of the species.
So let's not make mistakes. Let's not put progress, social issues, or even democracy before the VERY platform we need to even possess any of those things. Let's concentrate our energy on our actual planet.
This is my take.