...that all the ‘cutting edge’ health advice is obvious and in direct contradiction to the health industry’s reliance on drugs and treatment. “Go outside”, “get some sun”, “wake up early”, “sleep on time”, “be active.” In other words, get off yer ass, you sloppy sacks of lard.

...that the double-whammy of desperately wanting to go back to when things were less fraught but angrily deriding our past as full of horrors and injustice creates a strange vortex between nostalgia and condemnation. No wonder we’re all looking for anti-depressants and stopped having sex.

...that confidence gained by the approval and affirmation of others is fragile and is as quickly destroyed as it is built up.

...that if you look at sex as a thing to ‘get’ that’s all it is—a commodity, a transaction, an obligation, a wanton rabid desire fulfilled like an addiction. The key to the dysfunction between men and women is to understand that sex is shared not taken, cooperative rather than competitive, desired but not expected.

...that it still isn’t a big surprise that people you go out of your way to label as enemies of progress, racists, TERFs, and the moral equivalent of Nazis tend to vote against you out of nothing more than a middle finger in your self righteous, moralizing direction. The Trump Effect that seems to be lasting is Politics By Namecalling.