I watched something today where someone was talking about the impossibility of happiness as all things to create it inevitably fade. However, this reminded me of the Buddha's enlightenment, as this is essentially the conundrum he was dealing with when he concluded that it was attachment to these things which fade which ultimately leads to this despair.

While I have few things which make me happy, these days, and I have little to desire to renounce these attachments, this idea may form a useful template for thinking about a different matter.

Our modern era is so isolating and all our social constructs have been turned against us, now invoking "righteous hatred" to further divide us. When looking at this, it is hard not to feel powerless and despair.

I don't have a solution to this, as even becoming what I believe is right will be seen as a crime by those using this hatred to control and intimidate any who question or dream of a better world. Plus, I am not so socially confident or charismatic to be such a person.

Even without a solution to this problem, keeping clear the nature of the problem and the avenues I must explore to address it will hopefully lead me somewhere useful. At a minimum, maybe this thought will be my shield against despair.

...Nights