The words hell in a handbasket come to mind.

Oops, sorry, never seen it.

Not a clue what that means. Are you just compressing some chit?

Very interesting. So to be sure I’m understanding you, let’s suppose what you’re saying here is bang-on… wouldn’t that mean we are each and all followers by nature and can’t be anything but?

I get it. It’s just the kind of meaningless babble I’d expect in a social setting, like at a bar or party.

I think the States have some 🤪

So it’s just empty blathering then, when this German ambassador says they have our back. Great.

You addressed me, I responded… not to flatter you, but with my honest answer. If that doesn’t suit you, by all means carry on chatting with someone else.

I believe it was gifted to us, to sustain us, all of us… but have to agree we no longer deserve it.

An original thought doesn’t have to be the discovery of something.

What does that mean exactly, has our back? How?

I think you just came up with rump’s new name.

There’s enough room on this planet for everyone, which rightly belongs to everyone, yet everyone’s at the mercy of a self-entitled few who want it all for themselves. Like, piss off already.

Now you’re breaking off into something else that fascinates me… symbolism as a highly efficient method of communication. If you test yourself, you’ll find it takes less time for your brain to process symbols than spoken words… and there’s a very short amount of time in there where your brain understands what it’s looking at without the need of any other language other than symbolism.

Lol, ok, forget I was here.

I’ve had a hard enough time trying to think an original thought without redefining what a thought even is, so its dictionary definition is fine for this purpose.

I can’t fathom how we wouldn’t be aware if some thought suddenly occurred to us that was entirely foreign to everything familiar to us in this world.

Sorry, I don’t understand what you mean that it would be easier to quantity if in the form of a statement or opinion… original is original.

A 100% original composition, if you could invent entirely new notes. I know it seems impossible, but it can’t be when every single thought had to have been thought for a first time by someone.

Oops, I thought you were serious, sorry :)

No worries… I get a few flashes of almost genius, interspersed with many of remarkable stupidity… at least you only need to wake up (or get some sleep).

I keep going back to the fact that every thought had to have been thought a first time by someone, so that it has to be possible to have an original thought. Could it be then that maybe we’ve just finally run out of humanly conceivable ideas?

The first to explore the thought was Plato, approx 2500 years ago. Try again :)

I believe we’re in this mess because you did choose to have faith in politics… in fallible, corruptible people.