So I’m talking to my friend Donald over drinks, mostly to do with the current state of affairs. A glum conversation to say the least. Many dark corners. Few bright spots.

“There are times,” Donald declares, “when I wonder if I might not be a whole lot happier if I was able to stop paying attention.”

“To what?” I inquire.

“All of it,” he says. “Politics mainly. But the whole warp and woof of history even.”

“And how would you go about that exactly?” I wonder.

“That’s the problem, isn’t it,” Donald acknowledges. “How to stop giving a fuck.”

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