Jason Wilder

I learned at an early age there’s no justice in the world. It’s very rare that good triumphs over bad. Sometimes, if you let bad be bad long enough, another bad will out-bad the other. Or one bad will turn on another bad. Other times, bad will just adopt the goods’ policies to be worse. This is nothing new. It’s always been this way. It’s just more pervasive now. It’s all over social media, the news, at work, with friends and in families. It’s easier to hate or to act evil than it is than to do the opposite. Those that hate the loudest are now martyrs and saints. It’s batshit crazy.

The past couple years I’ve been reading a lot about philosophy and philosophers to try to make more sense of the world. It was helping until it wasn’t. I could read on and on about Sisyphus, Meursault and Josef; I really think even they might have trouble finding purpose in today’s world.

I think for most people, it’s hard to have a purpose outside of trying to survive day by day. I can certainly relate to that. I cannot stand when someone says “just do not watch or read the news.” Or “it shouldn’t bother you that much.” I relate to people who show empathy or simply have some capacity of caring, instead of using those words as a weapon against people who just want good.

Can you tell I’m trying to be polite here? I’m not as eloquent as Pastor John Wesley.

Anyways, have you been watching the news about 3I/Atlas? I’m kind of hoping that any further news about this maybe or maybe not comet will make all of this moot. Maybe smarter, calmer and more precise minds will move to the front. Telescopes and satellites are all trained on to this multi-billion year old object. While I have hope that this will be part of some great event, I’m not holding my breath. And if it is, humans will find a way to fuck it all up.