I don't have anything useful to say today

There are so many things I want to talk about. So many different issues. I don't know if my opinion is unique, or even useful, but I still want to express it.

I think so much and so hard about things. I have so many strong opinions. Too many to sort out and express properly, although I can usually make a pretty clear verbal statement if it's something I've thought about. If it isn't something I've thought about, then I can say so.

I'm opinionated because I think about things, and I think about things because I'm opinionated. How's that supposed to work?

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Summing it all up

I think the overall state of the world is awful, but I don't think it's ever been any better. Most places, it's really only been worse as far as I can tell. Maybe someone will tell me that I'm only saying that because I haven't experienced it. "Oh, sure, big american, you don't know what it's like here." But I think about the state of modern Europe—which isn't really good in many ways. And I think about the black death. The bubonic plague laid waste to the whole continent, killing the entire populations of towns, and decimating others. Things suck, but they aren't that bad there.

Are they that bad somewhere? I rather think so. But it's not the whole planet anymore, is it?