Yes, it is a very hard thing to change how we live and how we think about life.

I mean it is sort of the same as dealing with an addict. The change has to start with that person recognizing their issue and wanting to make a change. Nothing, no words nor actions of others tend to be what makes the difference. It typically is the person deciding "Hey, I want to do something about this."

So, when you talk about the emptiness and the void in our lives that we are trying to fill...well...we create our own void and we play a part in how we fill it.

I do think we live in a country where we are constantly assaulted by pitchmen and hucksters and we have given in to them. They know about the void and they know how to sell us things to fill it. We are so enamored with...or at least a percentage of the population is so enamored with...con men that we elected one president.

Let's face it, after years of advertisements telling us they can make our shirts and teeth whiter, our sex lives better by driving their car or drinking their booze, or that we will be smiling happy people surrounded by smiling happy people if we just ask our doctor for their prescription drug...well...we seem sort of more accepting of bullshit than ever...or at least some of us do.

I always figured we would evolve, you know, because that's what tends to happen and we would develop better bullshit detectors and instincts so our species would survive.

One thing that Trump has shown me is more people than I expected are begging to be lied to and fooled. I mean they eat up this guy's crap like it is a gourmet meal at a 5 star restaurant. They want to be lied to...like they are begging somebody to just tell them what they want to hear whether it is nonsense or not.