Wartime

Escalation continues.
The downward spiral keeps on heading further down.
Consumer prices explode - and polititians behave like fools in trying to combat them.
While actually not really trying to fight them.

Winning a war, protecting the world climate, preventing an economic recession from happening, and keeping up the growth - all of this, they want to achieve at once.
While ignoring the technical (im-)possibilities to do so and, even the more, how much these targets altogether contradict themselves and cannot be unified.

Some more big names die and leave the world - like rats leaving a sinking ship?
Or just their time having run out - and it just happens at the right moment to still depart in happiness and not see how the world goes down...

Wishful thinking continues to conquer the human brains all over the world,
narrowing the corridor of their sight - fueling aggression and dogmatic thinking.
Valuing some rules or standards higher than the practice that comes attached to them - and which may require an adjustment of the rules because of their unworldly overidealistic absoluteness that no-one can truly live.

It's almost like the human behavior itself wants to say "we're too many here on this planet to be able to live as lavishly as we want to"...

Another year of bullshit,
another year of fight,
nothing of the usual business in sight,
everyone trapped in the moshpit.

You don’t wanna hear,
you don’t wanna be near,
you just wanna go to sleep for a couple of years,
coffined until peace and quiet reappears.

Turbulences, tribal patterns - modern man goes on and on to grow back to believe kin and family more than facts and events before its eye.
Lots of dirty laundry surfaces, gets used to execute the will of a few which refuse to let go of power - as well as to leave the previous path. Not even for the purpose of surviving or going on living well...
Smart mind better withdraws from this turmoil, and starts picking up the remaining pieces when everybody else has died from their foolish clash.

Age of hate, big noises made, positions unalterable.
Fraction against fraction - the incarnation of the plebs fighting against itself.
The enemy is not out there, it already is in your own ranks...
It's symptoms are indoctrination, manipulation, confusion and narrowmindedness.
Sometimes, its accomplices are need and lack of personal honor. Paid jobs, done for a higher agenda... Which each party will even label as "noble".
Opinion is the currency to let peasants sacrifice their lives. For whatever meaninglessness they shall dive into the cold water.
Many people jump on that train, ready to throw everything away for something they heard somewhere through a chain letter.
The mind fades away and primitive emotions reign...
Let's hope, one fine day, brains rain from the sky and end this time of foolishness and revolving around oneself.

"The storms of fate cause misery for many, and few will be able to calm them once they start."