If I’ve spent money that I shouldn’t have or treated someone badly.
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The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
If I’ve spent money that I shouldn’t have or treated someone badly.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2025 source ↗
I worry a lot about how to juggle being a single parent and working – scheduling keeps me up at night!
I sleep very soundly.
Now that’s what happens when people go crazy, where the only thing that matters is whose camp are you in, whose side are you on, what tribe do you belong to — where facts and discussions become irrelevant. And it made me wonder whether the way I was raised and all the listening and storytelling skills I learned as a boy would even be relevant today. They’d be good if you’re in. They’re still really important to getting anything done, but if you live in an environment where everything is a litmus test and everything is a-hundred-to-nothing, and the only thing that matters is feeding your resentment, and anger blinds you to answers, and being very sanctimonious somehow proves your sincerity and authenticity, it’s really hard to get anything done. It’s a whole new challenge now, and that’s why — and the Russians knew that. You know, that’s when they get in here and start fooling with all these politics. They realize you just sort of load it up because once people take sides based on what tribe they’re in then there’s no difference in facts and fiction. There’s no difference in truth and lies. It’s just, does this confirm what side you’re on? And you can’t run a democracy that way. It is utterly impossible to preserve democracy.
Watching tennis.
A guitar – a 1959 Gibson 335.
I wish I could go back and not be the anxious child that I was. I spent the first 25 years of my life just trying to survive human interaction.
I felt like I messed up my marriage. I don’t feel that way any more, but at the time I was devastated.
My fear of confrontation.
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