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What the feck is going on?

It's great to see US cops behaving brilliantly. I think I get what the guys taking the video are about but in my view the cop owns them. He's the one being reasonable and really he shows them up as jerks.

"No good deed goes unpunished"
— my father-in-law, Brian Potter
15-May-1939 - 18-Oct-2013

A friend commented on Facebook first thing this morning:-



My thoughts in response to this are as follows.

It does seem depressing, specifically that decay sets in as soon as the initial product (the person) is formed. But perhaps this is Nature's in-built resilience providing well for us. Furthermore, the efficacy of the brain improves (or can improve) with time, as the innumerable interconnections within it increase.

An individual spends his whole life filling his mind, potentially amassing a wealth of knowledge and wisdom, only for it to be mostly lost when that person dies. Now that's what I find depressing.

"There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in ..."
—Leonard Cohen