Humanity is in freefall

[Coventina]

And the world is a dumpster fire
We're spinning out of control
On a merry-go-round of misery
With a madman at the wheel
If life was a carnival prize
No one would play the game.

(Poem excerpted from "Death Strikes" an English translation / interpretation of an original opera by Holocaust victims)

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As a species, we never learn.

[LearnedHand]

1. Who is the poet? Link to the poem?

[Coventina]

2. Sorry no link. The original German was poet / librettist Peter Kien

Translation / adaption by Dave Maas.

I do urge you to check out their adaptation of "Death Strikes."

It was written in the Terezin concentration camp.
https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/3011-009/Death-Strikes-The-Emperor-of-Atlantis-HC

(I guess that's kind of a link)

[NJCher]

3. Individual vs. group

As a species, we never learn.

I once heard it said that humans can be highly intelligent individually.

In groups, however, it all falls apart.

[calimary]

4. SHEESH, sure does seem like it.

[librechik]

5. Yes, however, we have more success when we work together as a unit

So don't fall into the trap of isolation. That will get us nowhere. Like Brexit. Like USAID. Like Trump's attempt to kill NATO.

We have to get together and stay together. Even though we are unbelievably stupid.

All good advice for myself. Wish I had the stones to follow it.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. We the People

The greatest idea in recorded history: the Constitution of the United States of America.