[sugErspun]

Bob, I have noticed a lot of what you describe above...and Plato's analogy is as relevant today as it was. It's like describing green to someone who cannot see - impossible, and it's good for me to know it's impossible.

But I have witnessed, in my AA fellows moreso than my non-AA friends - that there can be this 'fight' and what I consider over-concern with the state of the nation, economy....though it is not my experience as of yet. I think it is a form of grieving. Resentment is so warm, and nice to entertain and feels like a really good place.

But we know where it gets us.

I think you are better off in the long run, I realize there isn't much condolence in saying that - but the biggest truths are not easy...and a life worth living is the same.

I don't know if you have to accept the things you cannot change so much as the other part: "know the difference".