Post-truth optimism

I've become increasingly cynical since the advent of post-truth, especially after the half-wit bigot with the fox on top got elected.

• Yes, he is a half-wit since he would be three times as rich if he placed his inheritance in an index fund instead of trying to manage it himself;
• yes he is a half-wit since he did try to start uni, but - not unlike The Donald Himself - it was full of feelings, but no substance and it has received a whooping 1.3k lawsuits as a result;
• yes he is a half-wit and a bigot because he doesn't even know about climate change;
• yes he is a bigot because he builds walls instead of tearing them down and he wants to prevent muslims visiting although "the threat they pose" is only 0.02% compared to that the NRA poses;
• yes he is a bigot as he doesn't understand the meaning of the word birth certificate;
• yes he is a bigot because only after he learnt from president Obama what Obamacare actually is, he changed his stance.

It's easy for common sense-people to become utterly tired of the man who obviously has problems with facts. And I'm sure he would have been pleased to got help winning - when you don't know the truth you need all the help you can get. But he's so generously ignorant, he doesn't even realize when he's been helped. Ahhhh... wounderful to get that off my chest.

Putin on the other hand is not beating about the bush either:

Nuclear-ready КУЗНЕЦОВ in a power display through i18n, British, Swedish and Danish waters.

And of course Facebook's not only selling our opinions any more, its machine-powered "news service" strengthens our ignorance. Myself, I quit looking at all news a year ago. The word news has always been another word for what shit has gone down lately. But globalization and ever-increasing distraction has put a spin on both what and lately. There is always something horrible happening, and the attention span to care enough to actually do something (by which I, being a typical westerner, of course mean donate funds) is zero. That's why papers and journalists don't sell any more.

I'll try to drag my ass out of cynicism by simply looking the other way. My goal is to be more ignorant than Trump. Ok, that's unfair. To myself. Nobody could ever become that ignorant unless actually locked away in an asylum.

What I mean is I'll focus on the good news. What's good at work, what's good in the world, the good people. The Elon Musks, Bill Gateses, Dalai Lamas, Nelson Mandelas and Justin Trudeaus.

And at the same time I'll start experimenting with lysergic acid diethylamide, so my already twisted worldview is bound to escalate. I had forgotten how much freedom it meant being a bachelor: