Reversal of Values

This has become a global phenomenon and has become normal behavior for most people. Behavior that is invisible to them, and cannot be explained to them.

As I try to explain this, I have to start with the word "phenomenon". I had to look this up in Merriam-Webster, where I could see how important it is. This refers to what has become our normal unconscious behavior. Where to go from here?

Let's try the word "behavior". Can we understand this?  Yes and no. We can almost understand it, but we can also not understand it. Can you see where I am going?

I am saying, for reasons no one understands, that our values have become reversed, and we cannot see this.

They Can Not Only Survive, They Can Thrive

In an completely crazy world - and they will have no other.

Once again, I am trying to understand the world I left behind, when I moved to Costa Rica. And am finding the going difficult. How do you explain insanity?

I can only do what others have done - classify different types of insanity. And make an attempt to describe the American Madness.

I am living in a little town, that had many Americans and Canadians - a few years ago. I liked this, because it gave me someone to talk to, in English. But recently they have left in droves, and I have no one left to talk to.

I am reduced to trying to remember my past, and writing about it in my blog. And reading whatever I can get my hands on.

Such as an article about Freud, in the London Review of Books: From Shtetl to Boulevard - this describes the German Madness, that he participated in - and understood not at all.

I participated in the American Madness, that Americans have resisted understanding, with all their strength. This is one way to classify it - as a reversal of values. People who are determined to not be. And to not be good. And to make a world that is not good. 

Got it?

I'm Just Learning How It Is

This should make me like everyone else. This is what people have always been doing - learning how it is, so they can move into new territory.

But sometime late in the 19th Century, they went into reverse - and instead of getting more territory, they got less.

What do I mean by getting less territory? Less intellectual territory. We had always been living off our smarts, and now there was less of that.

This was such a shock, our minds went into reverse also - and we decided we were better off - instead of worse off.

We had a double-whammy working against us. We were worse off - but thought we were better off!