Blog entry - DoY 056

Who is us?

Pardon me.  I'm still a little in awe.  I know us includes a lot of murderers, rapists, thieves, and misdemeanor-ists.  But Lord love a duck!  Us includes a lot of others-serving people!  Yes, they get paid for it, but that's how we do things in our economy.  They probably don't get paid enough for the generosity and kindness and caring they ladle onto us patients.  And they do it knowledgeably!  They go to school to learn what works and what doesn't in dispensing generosity, kindness, and caring!

Just know, as much as my attention is usually on the viciousness, greed, and stinginess of many of us, I am also impressed by the humane-ness some of us live by.

 For 18 Feb 2021 - DoY 049

Who is us?

Well, us includes some mighty generous people.  On the night of the 11th, I had my 8th cardiac incident in a week.  In this case, a cardiac incident means my pulse shot up to 125 and I had trouble breathing.  So I called the EMTs and they came to get me and took me to Providence Tarzana, a hospital.  I was there less than 24 hours.  Kaiser sent an ambulance for me and moved me to Kaiser-Permanente Woodland Hills.  Kaiser has since sent me to Kaiser Permanente Sunset for cardiac procedures (diagnostics).

The EMTs, the nurses, the doctors, the nurses' aides generously cared for me as if my life mattered.  I could not have convinced them it did.

Us includes some mighty generous people, us does.

 for 11 February - DoY 042

Who is us?

Y'know, we must have an awful lot of get-along-ability!  How long is it we've lived in cities?  50,000 years?  Only 10,000?  What?  Only 7000?  (I Googled.)  How embarrassing!

Even so, for most of the latest 7000 years we've mostly kept from braining our neighbors by entertaining ourselves with distant wars!  We've mostly let the few (our armies) kill, rape, and pillage for us, and been content to celebrate their glory.  (In times of austerity, we burn witches and heretics and other anti-social types.)

And for most of us, most of the time, being more-or-less nice to each other isn't an effort.  Sneakily, we even sorta like our neighbors, despite what we say about them.

So clearly, we must have an awful lot of get-along-ability!

Who is us? DoY 035 sorta

 Who is us?

Us is procrastinators - us put off doing things, and sometimes that works out.  Us just leave things like that, permanently put off

Us is do-ers.  Us claim us are human beings, but us know ourselves best by what us do.  Some of us build bridges, either literally or figuratively.  Some of us build highways or at least roads.  Some of us build buildings, or houses, some of us build homes.  Some of us build dams, raise horses, do science, guard structures or property.  Us do and us do and us do, so us are at least as much human doings as human beings.

Us put together too many of us to live equitably or peacefully, so the ones who have robbed the rest of us most successfully hire thugs from among us to keep the robbees under control.  Us find it most easy to go along with being robbed and being thugged because we live in nicer houses than we did before and we have running water and maybe even health care.  Us call this civilization, and are happy for the entertainers who come along with it.

Us are good at lying to ourselves.