It's still summer I've been blissed out down here, chasing the grandkids across the beach They do funny, startling and often "crazy" things.
What's "crazy"? That's a good question. But let's take the opposite approach: what's "sane?"
Here's a brief thought experiment: what would it be like if everyone the world was sane?
Think about it.
It can't happen can it?
Is there any way we could all agree? Or, if we disagree to act respectively, be accepting, make reasonable adjustments and accommodations?
If we are all sane, would we have similar standards of what is fair, of what is reasonable?
I guess it goes back to Aristotle, who was looking for "ideals", and the perfect forms and pure ideas to guide us.
We haven quite found them yet.
That leads to disagreement, to tension, to conflict, to stress, to anger or depression, and there you go, You end up with ISIS, mass shootings and 16 Republican crazy people wanting to be President.
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