It's Better Now

(Editor’s Note: This Article is well worth the read, although there were some cleverly disguised links for adverting products and joining a mailing list. Those links that were blatant were removed at the Editor’s Discretion. The remaining links will give the Reader [you!]  the option to act upon the information or not. We, the Staff, feel that the information contained below far outweighs the commercial leanings of the Author, Mr, Vaszily)
There are wise owls, who I define as those older than I am in literal years or in spirit, and who have had the strength and humbleness (same thing, really) to learn from life by honestly confronting and striving to manage the impact of emotions such as fear, greed, envy, anger, and guilt on their being (and therefore on how they treat other people.)

And there are old fools, who I define as a generation or more older than I am, and who have lived their lives largely unaware of and therefore in reaction to the impact of emotions such as fear, greed, envy, anger, and guilt (often stemming all the way back to their youth), and who therefore see the world as a fight and treat others as pawns or enemies.Within both types, just as within all people, is a pure and noble spirit; the question is how much rust and crust from unrecognized and unmanaged emotions has accrued upon the human in which that spirit resides, and therefore to what extent they’ve been immobilized from and have run counter to living the truth and doing the good they were born to.
How to Spot a Dangerous Old Fool

Nothing is as dangerous as certain old fools, because they’ve got decades of experience in smiling for the world — often using religion or other sacred cows to enhance their smile — while, from a deep place of self-loathing and insecurity, they stick knives in people’s backs for what they perceive as their own gain, or con younger fools into doing so for them. (more…)