You are a raindrop being consumed by a toxic swamp
You live in a world where the pond formed by individual raindrops has become far more important that each individual drop [see photo]. The pond formed in Washington DC is appropriately called "the swamp". The mystery is obvious when we ask this simple question: "how can a pure drop of rain turn into a murky toxic swamp?"
The swamp forms because some raindrops get badly corrupted and become far from pure as the driven snow. If we collect raindrops in tanks for our own consumption we can drink it with no bad consequences; even if we do not have filters on our taps. I lived this way for a decade and it was a delight to drink fresh water captured from our rooftop and stored in our tanks. Good clear rain water fulfilled my family's needs.
But the raindrops that intermingled with a wide variety of contaminants eventually become the toxic brew that forms the Washington DC swamp. This swamp has turned America into one of the most corrupt nations on our planet [it still lags behind Ukraine... but?]. It is a nation that owes the world [you and me] $US 32, 000, 000, 000, 000 [and you need a solid "work effort" from umpteem raindrops to cover that debt]. America is a nation that has been in decline since 1945 and that process has been stepped up since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. I refer to the fall of America because it is engaged in a process repeated from the EU to Britain to Canada and so on. And these processes all around the globe have been built on the back of debt [future earnings of you and me].
My message to you is to retain your view of yourself as a raindrop not as an integral part of the collective swamp. You can separate yourself from the collective. And my way of doing this is to focus on your individual needs [pure rain drops] and largely ignore collective wants [a stagnating pond]. To do this you must insulate yourself [as a raindrop] from the collective wants that surround in your mundane life. To do this you must eliminate your reliance on collective wants which means you must "want less" and focus on your individual needs. The more you can remove "collective wants" from your daily life the more you can return to a life that is sustained by the core essence of a pure raindrop.
Richard.
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