You just don't realize the stress until you can't deny it.

[EuterpeThelo]

48. Oh lawdy, hj, can I relate.

The last six years have brought me SO much pain and grief on a personal level that I can't even begin to account for all of it (and I know I'm far from alone there). But the added stress and anxiety caused by the never-ending firehose of just pure SHIT aimed at us every day from every angle is sometimes just overwhelming.

I've read "The Shock Doctrine." I *know* on an intellectual level that this is being done by design to flood our defense mechanisms. Doesn't make it any easier when something so trivial (like the filters of which you wrote) becomes the straw that breaks the camel's back for that day.

The worst part (and again, I know I'm not alone) is how many DECADES I have been standing in the street screaming with signs warning that all of this was coming, and hardly anybody even bothered to look up, it seemed.