Do you ever feel as though you’re the only grown up in the room? Like you have an inherent ability to see the world (generally and individually) with greater clarity and rational thought than most of the people around you? Ego-arrogance, I suppose. But I feel like my own path, rather mundanely, follows these days a certain logical progression, amplified by a basic understanding of consequences, adult communication skills, and a sort of ordered, lineal mode of action — while others around me are steeped in their own emotional masturbation, or married to debilitating addiction, or unable to comprehend the circular impact of their adoy-doy decisions, or fetishly hooked on monumentally bad and hyperbolic Internet information, or in full nurturing of the most rank bigotry and infantile (mental) paralysis, or only able to engage others performatively and passive-aggressively, or spend life cringing and whinging and hanky-wringing over the perceived or imagined utter horror of living in a post-industrial cluster fuck. I clearly need to return to some sort of therapy; but in the meantime, I’m utterly, continuously bitch-slapped over how little contextual perspective and rudimentary, reasoned cognition people around me afford themselves. And here’s the $20,000 question: Is it just me?

4 replies on “Is it just me?”

  1. It’s not just you.

    I’d recommend support groups over individualize therapy.

    It’s important to acknowledge that you are dealing with external environmental challenges and not suffering from any personal failures or short comings.

    Not everything can be solved by medication and skill set development, sometimes you need to push back and demand the world to adapt to you.

    Portland in particular is majorly effed, Some through choice or habit have adapted to the unhealthy environment. We’ve normalized a dangerous intersection of unhealthy behaviors.

    And as hard as it can be, humans tend to feel much better when they actively take measures to shape their environment to benefit their health and well-being.

    What you think happened to you that day is real.

  2. As pretentious as it sounds, getting away from technology and reading poetry on a printed page is helpful.

    You need to be exercising daily, there needs to be something you push yourself through each day and achieve.

    also, the internet is a big place, there is not need to limit your connections by geography in this millenium.

  3. It’s not just you. We are clearly surrounded by idiots, and the fact that #2’s suggestion is considered “pretentious” in our society says a lot about America and how fucking stupid people have become.

  4. I can totally talk about illegal/unreported in-kind campaign donations. That is something may have come up on a campaign and I may have helped coordinate how to keep certain types of donations hidden from the public, unreported to ORESTAR as legally required, and otherwise off the record.

    James Ofsink provided advice to the Julia Degraw Campaign and others on this matter.

    Let me be clear. I am not the Michael Greenblatt that works at Hilltop Public Solutions with Neel Pender the former head of the Democratic Party of Oregon. I am also not the Michael Greenblatt that works with the wife of an Oregon Supreme Court Justice. I am not the Michael Greenblatt that worked for Kate Brown’s campaign either.

    You might have me confused with someone else.

    My phone contains some interesting items, I can not say if any of those items would be criminal in nature.

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