I am oh so lucky...

Newminimalists make their own luck.

Lucky ladybug.

This ladybug is lucky because she is well adapted to her environs [see photo].

I am lucky because I am well adapted to my environs. Most importantly, I am not the victim of all the branded mass-hysteria of our times. I am not addicted to the noise of those who oppose and those who support this or that because I can see through the slick marketing of these narratives, or ideas, and thus I can clearly identify those who gain from such charades.

I am lucky because I am vulnerable to the full impact of the covid virus. This means that I treat the virus with the utmost respect; but, I treat the noise and bluster accompanying it with pure contempt.

I am lucky because I recognise the genuine threats posed to humanity by Climate Change. Thus, I am delighted that there is a simple solution to reducing the worst impacts of it on our way of life. Of course that simple fact remains opaque to those who scream and rage about the need to usher in a Green New Deal. They claim they must save us all from extinction by 2030. Of course, those who market this type of political and commercial hysteria are usually the direct [or indirect] beneficiaries of a system that perpetuates the real threats to us from Climate Change. If viewed through this prism then the actions of those who oppose the application of technologies, and energy sources, that would eliminate the world's carbon emissions threats appear to be rational.

I am lucky to live in a time of mass hysteria while being able to avoid the incredible mental discombobulation that is being spread around the world in various guises. Those who find themselves trapped in various herd communities around the globe are poor souls for they are even less intellectually free than those who are held captive in solitary confinement in prison cells or at home. I have concluded that this fever of mass hysteria can only be broken if each individual has the fortitude to focus his or her mind on needs not desires.

I am oh so lucky to live in a time when the written word, and wisdom, of past [and present] thinkers is available on my desktop and on my phone. I can escape the rampant hysteria of the modern consumer herd if I flick my mind away from what is popular, trending, mind-numbing, entertaining, loud, simplistic, and another brick in bulwark of the status quo.

I neither support, nor oppose, the status quo and this means that my unique version of insanity makes me a lucky son-of-a-gun.

Richard

If you need to get lucky you can find out more about Newminimalism on the homepage of my website at minimal-you.com