Finding Good People in a Bad World

When J was working in Silicon Valley in the Nineties, I was doing therapy again. Everyone was, but few were aware of this.

Two impulses were working in us at the same time: (1) the desire to make things work. and (2) the opposite desire, to make things not work, to destroy everything. This was such a horrible impulse, we could not be aware of it.

The solution was simple: to get out of there. I moved to Costa Rica, where people still liked people.

I was not the only one, there were plenty of Gringos here making a new life for themselves, and learning Spanish.

There was an organization helping us with this: ARCR, the Association of Residents of Costa Rica. They helped me get my Residency and then faded out of existence.

Something strange was going on, that I still do not understand. Most of those Gringoes were going back! They could only live where they came from, usually the USA.

Strange things were going on there: the USSR had vanished, and the US had a Gulf War (that was very successful). The US had found a new enemy but was not sure what (o where) it was.  Maybe Afghanistan.

It also found the Computer (or the Computer found it) and the Coronavirus was added to the party!

Things were so complicated, most people ceased to exist.