Misc. All those mirrors in TRP?

[Michael Bailey]

sorry to go on and on, but it just seems like a lot of the time when
people whose viewpoints I admire talk about current events they say
things that tend to make me panic

and if panic could mobilize me quickly and make me more effective,
that would be fine

but I'm one of these step by step buttheads and panic slows me down
(does it really actually speed anybody up) and I need to construct a
headspace to work within

so I was pleased enough with this one to go on and on about it:

the physical universe is like, vast enough to contain the problem, my
take on it, everything I'm likely to do, all the consequences of any
success or failure I and everybody I know will ever have dealing with
it, and still have plenty of room for lots of other occurrences that
have nothing to do with any of the above; not only that --- that which
I call "me" might be different than what I think it is, even, ya know?

the biological fact is we are finite creatures bounded in space and
time (well, maybe I will never reach an upper bound of my healthy
timespan, and I certainly wish all of you the same) and each of us is
part of a long term process which is often cataclysmic and only tiny
parts of which are ever under our control to any extent, so nobody has
any respect, and anyway they already expect you all to give a check to
tax-deductible charity organizations...

within our culture, there are like, bell curves galore of all kinds of
characteristics, numerous situations going on of which Tyson chicken
or government corruption or authoritarian personalities are only a
couple of which, although within a cultural perspective it's possible
to order things by a variety of schemes...again only some of which
I've even heard of and only a couple of which I might have a smidgen
of facility with, but no harm in trying...and also, safety in numbers,
somebody'll probably figure it out if I don't, which (ymmv) doesn't
make me lie back, but encourages me to keep trying and to keep abreast
of other efforts by others

and so back to economics, 10 dollars of my discretionary income goes
to such and such a cause (Fellowship of Reconciliation, W.A.S.T.E,
Arbor Day Foundation, Amnesty International, so forth) and you know, a
couple grand a year on consumer items etcetera, all of which I
deliberate over.

all of which gives a certain sense of scale of what my efforts amount
to in the grand scheme of things.  But, you know, one like, rejoices
at the notion that there is indeed a grand scheme of things and by
deduction, a grand scheme is set up with like, many interesting
surprises at every step...

anyway, still not being very clear, but maybe giving an idea of some sort?