My frustration knows no bounds

My frustration knows no bounds. It's likely my most relatable emotion at the moment.

My frustration is primarily directed at the underlying failings of humanity, foremost among them greed.

When we consider everything that seems fundamentally fucked up about how America (and indeed most of humanity) is doing at the end of 2025, it does seem as though greed is in fact the underlying motor that got us here.

I know the familiar arguments about how figures like Trump or Musk or Bezos aren't actually driven by greed, because it "isn't actually about the money" to them.

But it is.

In the most fundamentally venal sense, the striving for capital and the accumulation of it in particular is so painfully evident in the character of all of the players on this stage, that you have to be willfully deceiving yourself to miss it.

You simply can't claim that the desire these men have to "build something" is actually an impulse in service to something. It is so painfully obvious that the business empires, the gigantic rockets, and the oversized ballrooms built on top of the bigliest deals are all just various forms these empty men pour their desperation into as they seek to control more and more wealth all the while haunted by the gnawing sense that it will never be enough. It is all driven by greed.

There on the other side you see the pearls clutched tightly for decades. Clinton's radical advancement of a deregulated financial market, Obama hugging Wall Street close after the subprime crisis, and the sheer craveness of the likes of Chuck Schumer and the rest of the DNC luminaries in the face of an existential threat to democracy. At every step the shadow of greed falls across them as well, and even now the establishment Democrats show themselves to be at best reticent as the call to action shines like a clarion beacon.

So yeah, that fundamental fallibility is a foundational and functional part of my frustration, and it isn't limited to politics. It runs deep into my day job. The ways in which greed has undermined education are both troubling and absolutely fucking infuriating.

and yes, this is the part where I will acknowledge that the rest of humanities falibilities do play their part in an intricate dance with greed. Pride and envy are of course crucial participants, but so too is a fundamental lack of imagination. It's not that humanity doesn't have imagination, but our fear (the root of greed and envy among others) has a bad habit of stifling our best ideas being brought to fruition.

I am frustrated with education, but I am mostly frustrated with the extent to which the tech oligarchs have been able to steamroll us into submission with an AI rollout that is going to fuck us all over...potentially literally, but that would honestly be one of the less bad outcomes possible.

It is absolutely infuriating.

This is not a good path for any part of humanity.

The thoughtless rollout of technology for three and a half decades has made our lives considerably worse, and yet for some reason there is literally no thought to slowing down.

Greed. Greed drives them on, and they drive the rest of us forward towards calamity.

The situation is not without hope, but hope is often the only thing you have left to survive a path of suffering, and in this case the suffering is so absolutely frustratingly unnecessary.

So yeah.

My frustration is boundless, and I hold onto it because at least it gives me motivation.

If I dwell too long on the atrocities taking place, then the despair gets a chance to take hold.

I'll take the frustration for now.