It’s that time of year for sure, my son got sick on Friday as well lol it was difficult timing too! We didn’t have anything crazy planned but it was not what we wanted to be doing. Thankfully it didn’t get a lot worse and he’s feeling better now but it still sucks. 

The cog and hamster wheel feeling is definitely prevalent these days! We are just chugging along and made sure that we don’t get too far ahead or it will kick us back a few pegs. That’s also why I refuse to put any of that “smart home” horse shit in my house and when we buy a new house, whenever that is, I’m taking the fucking bullshit the fuck out! I will smash that smart thermostat and controller on the damn ground. 

Health is said to be wealth. Going out when that little one isn't feeling well is kind of impossible more when you're the one readily available to take charge. My nephew for two weeks hasn't been too well but I'm glad when I called yesterday I was told he now eats and play around. 
Children sickness seems to spread across I'm positive that small steps gets to her feet 🐾 Sooner stronger and healthier. Many government policies looks at first for the good of the masses but the end is something I don't understand.

An extreme reality is that we also have a severe shortage of teachers here, so frankly speaking, no one wants to take up the teaching profession very easily and the funds to pay teachers are running out.  But when it comes to strengthening the military, they find billions to buy weapons.  Thank you for bringing up so many topics in such a beautiful way in your writing.

One can only wonder how many coincidences it must take for some people to realise that Google showing us exactly what we had just said (or talked about) a few minutes ago should raise a brow. 

Just because we don't actually see the flow of our personal data shouldn't mean that they are not gathered in the first place exploited for revenue sake. 

And now, the government just tells us what to believe and makes us want to believe it simply because we can't manage for ourselves.

If only we have not been engineered into submission. But oh well, such is the life we live in now. 

Yowser! More bleak! More we are living in simulations! Great essay! 

My first thought was that I used to love having nothing to do other than to take care of a sick child. It was easier than running around trying to get stuff done or to have an entertaining time. So perhaps you will find some much needed rest. But wasn't she just really sick, in hospital? Hopefully this is nothing as serious as that seemed to be. I'm also reminded of one of my biggest regrets as a parent: when one of my children became well again, she also become rude and demanding. I said "I liked you better when you were sick." 

I got off FB when it started suggesting friends for me who were people I had nothing in common with except a few minutes together with our phones. If FB can do this, what is to stop entities who want to control us from sending us big bills just when we get on top of our finances? I don't think you are far off with the notion that we are being kept living on the edges of knives, just as we are told that we are politically 50-50 all over the world. Not possible! Contrived, managed, imposed, maneuvered, a fake reality, a simulation. 

You make a great argument for anarchy in this essay - we would do better if left to ourselves. We would. We would rely more on our inner senses of good and bad, rather than to look outside ourselves for guidance. When we let others dictate our actions (and if the leftists have their way, our thoughts), we make slave systems possible. Explains a lot! 

>This is NOT the way it has to be

I think the only way to survive Murphy's Laws is to accept them hehehe! Sometimes it seems that everything is conspiring against us and that there is an upper floor designed to put a spanner in the works to our works .. I don't know? What to do? I don't know? I try to take everything philosophically, I laugh and look for alternatives... and I don't do it because I'm a Zen philosopher heh heh, I've simply realized by now that I would spend my life making my liver explode lol!

Do you believe in determinism?  Money come, money go, if it’s meant to be it’s meant to be. 

Our next actions are already pre-determined based on all the environmental inputs and our individual experience, how we affect others and how others affect us.  We are all one.  

Including my typing this.  Aren’t we in a matrix? 

I really believe that we have to make a choice. To stay within a system that controls us or make our own way and disengage.
I have made my choice already. 
I hope that Smallsteps is feeling better, a fever is the bodies way of calling in healing x

>if it was up to individuals, wars wouldn't happen. If it was up to individuals, wealth wouldn't collect in the hands of the few. 

Seems it is up to us, but we give it to the authority by the election, then they lead us to wars and major poverity. This doesn't look sensible.

Some friends have reported that ads seem to customize themselves to phone calls as well. That thing about emergencies being linked to extra money is scary... If it's extremely common, it would almost have to be automated. Could sentient AI's be put to work on that, I wonder?

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Benjamin Franklin once said: 

> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

This is playing out and even more so in the last few years.  People are asleep, but more and more are waking up to the reality. 

Your example is exactly it, no money to make people’s lives better, end poverty and homelessness, on the very same token, infinite amount of money can be donated and spent on war. 

Lots of meds that cover up the symptoms while creating even more issues down the road, but never a cure. 

When the majority are focused on merely surviving, it is much easier to control.