[Alberta's Child]

But for the fact that the world is seemingly full of shysters and full-blown homo-narcissists. How to avoid them?

It’s amazing how easy it is to avoid them when you don’t watch TV or web media.

[one guy in new jersey]

Yes, that’s true as far as it goes.

But the freedom of association we enjoy in this country, having allowed the populace to develop our unique civil society (a necessary boon or blessing), as distinguished from government (a necessary evil), has withered terribly in the past five years or so. Good people getting together in real life for good purposes is difficult, even counterproductive, when snakes and other bad faith actors, sociopaths, psychopaths, are slithering in/infiltrating, seemingly with little difficulty, or with few obstacles to the mindless destruction they seek.