As for “dispensing judgments as usual”, what else to do when faced with perceived foolishness? Don’t you yourself act similarly in much of what you write here? Or are you excluded from such a “judgment”?

You ask, “why me?” – well, I ask, why not you?

Provided that yours is not an attempt to avoid recognizing (as you often reproach Shantam of doing) your inappropriate intrusion while I was giving a taste of Realpolitik to Bob.

The problem is that you did it dispensing judgments, as usual, although I would have imagined one like you, supposedly into spiritual growth, surely with far better things to be involved in, maybe advaita exercises: neti Osho neti BL, neti Sheela neti Reagan, neti Assad neti May, neti Putin neti Trump…then why me?

If you rebel against the domain’s system of the few in charge on the planet could you ever do it alone with your sense of righteousness or would you try to share that seed?

Is it so hard to free yourself from that English feeling of quiet desperation?

Perhaps my only illusion could come from ‘new humanity’ like you, who have been close to such a flame of grace and rebellion, certainly not from my fellow fighters who recite all of Marx and Keynes by heart but know very little about themselves.

In your eyes, it seems that my fault is witness to a joyous way of organising existence.

I do not watch the news, especially those that indulge in horror, but the horror that still reaches me does not make my head bow under the sand, I prefer to rebel, along with others, even if not yet everyone knows how beautiful a man can be.

What good has your apparently extreme concern about any of the world’s ‘evils’ actually achieved? Except waste your time and energy – or give you a feeling of ‘righteousness’ amidst all the soul-searching and condemnation of ‘the enemy’?

To give just one example, can you or I do anything to get rid of or even ‘change’ Trump, or Putin & co., or anyone or anything else they control? In your dreams, perhaps.

‘Enjoy’ the 8pm news – but don’t imagine watching all that means anything, or enhances your credentials as a standard-bearer of a so-called ‘new humanity’. Unless you want to sink further into self-delusion.