I am firmly convinced that societies grow and mature. Sometimes you have to try on different ways of being before you find the one that is “Just Right.” Years ago I was talking to my daughter and told her, “I like the way you have turned out, I was worried for a while.” She told me, “I had to try out different styles.” “Oh, so that explains your Goth period?” She said, “Oh daddy, lots of people in school were dressing Goth, so I had to try it, but yuck. It was not me.”
I think our society is going through it’s equivalent of a “Goth Period,” Trump, Putin, Netanyahu, these are people who are not us. I am waiting for us to recognize that and move on. I hope it doesn’t take too long.
It depends on if I like that person. If I don’t, then they can use the Walmart jack stands, if they are kin or friends then I would have them use a better grade of safety equipment.
In Hinduism there is a name of a cycle called a “Yuga.” That cycle or year, is 4,320,000 of our years long. It’s all relative.