Born in a refugee camp post WW2, to parents fleeing from Lithuania just ahead of Stalin's army. I am always an outsider, a foreigner, the stranger. Till 18, I did not even have citizenship of any country. Truly an ousider.
Always being the "other" has given me a different perspective about life & everything else. The unique perspective is often not in line with expected norms, & for that, I am tremendously grateful. To be "normal" in today's world would require me to be crazy. Yes, I'm crazy, but not in the way the general (m)asses of people tend to be. I'm "crazy" in that I don't buy the horseshit that everyone else believes in, like the foundational myths of Western Civilization, which I see as tremendously flawed & going over a cliff. I am standing aside & cheering as it goes over the edge.
The foundational myths? Religion, nationalism & patriotism, democracy, capitalism, competition, schooling, the family, monogamy = all BS & at the heart of why the U$$$$$ is folding up shop & going on a suicidal rampage which, unfortunately, will reverberate around the world because too many for too long have looked at the U$$$$ as El Dorado.
The world is now paying the price for following the U$$$$'s lead. Nature's vehement unacceptance of its climate collapse is being placed on the heads of all the dummies around the globe that have gone along with idiocies like owning individual cars, walking nowhere, using plastics as though it were water, using water as if it were air, & using air as though it would infinitely clean itself.
