We Can't Get Much Crazier. Right?

Few things hit me more in the face than the modern obsession with the idiocy that is TikTok. And now--with a looming ban on it hovering over America (no clue how they enforce that with VPNs, but I digress...), well, you would think 200,000 people aren't homeless after L.A.'s ravaging and Apocalyptic fires of the past few days.

We are a country that has lost our way so badly, we don't even have a sideview mirror for it anymore.

You will survive without posting your latest iced cookies or what meal you had in Thailand to complete strangers. Really. Much harder is putting your life back together after not only losing a home, but everything in it, including papers (note to self: everyone says those "fireproof" envelopes for important papers are all ash now).

Until you have been through a few disasters, you really have no sense of what constitutes one. I started very young with mine, and there have been plenty since. I watch the fire news now and instead of being depressed, I think, "Ok, I have four walls and food in the fridge. My life has some kind of order. It ain't that bad."

Perspective is everything in life. Truly.

I actually hope TikTok disappears, just so people realize what a trivial and utterly unimportant medium it really is. I've been off all social media now for about 14 months, and I am never, ever going back.

It's mindless drivel, designed by billionaires and governments to direct your mind and your wallet and everything you believe in. Not a new concept, but a new and very efficient methodology.

Wake up and smell the propaganda.