Can I be candid for a minute?
I spend a lot of my day reading politics, economics, AI, world events, and trying to connect the dots.
I still believe it’s important work.
But here’s what I’ve realized...
Living in politics every single day is exhausting.
I suspect I’m not the only one feeling that way.
Lately I’ve been asking myself a bigger question…
What do I want GeezerWise to stand for five or ten years from now?
The answer surprised me.
I don’t think it’s politics.
I think it’s helping people think more clearly, become wiser, stay curious, and enjoy life a little more.
Politics would still be part of GeezerWise. Canada Strong isn’t going anywhere.
But I’d also love to explore things like…
• Critical thinking and spotting manipulation
• Fun “Thought Exercises” that sharpen the mind
• AI that actually improves your life
• Psychology and why we believe what we believe
• Stories that make you smile
• Animals doing amazing things
• Life lessons
• Skills worth learning
• Ideas that simply make us better humans
In other words...
Less outrage.
More wisdom.
I’d really like to know how that feels to you.
If GeezerWise gradually became a place that helped you think clearer, laugh more, and stay sane in a noisy world...
Would that be something you’d look forward to?
I’d genuinely love your thoughts.
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Good-faith discussion over tribal noise.
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I already shared some thoughts with you. No reply, fair enough, but then this message, possibly related. I get why you need to be cautious and you may have more reasons than I can guess because i m old and losing touch with modern communications. To some extent by attrition but also deliberate mistrust and a desire to keep my mind as much my own as I can. I m dwindling in life and yet had a pretty engaged past in social policy. It never lets go. I feel like there needs to be. a place for seniors, like the Senate -sober second thought, like First Nations have for Elders -consideration, advice ,blessing, but noone is doing that in the larger society. Churchs have faded away and local government and small councils and even the family role have all but vanished.What is the cost of that?
You in your admitted mid 70s might create some of that and I d asked what your background was. to see if it works there. I m not trying to pry, just get a feel for where people come from who stay engaged. I was in government others are in academia, media, internaitonal relations, even church and charities. I m better at writing than talking.
I do feel that beyond a personal need to keep up, there might well be a role for us elders because there seem to be. a gaping hole about how society works, about why we have the ideas and structures we do. I do not know about education of young people today and they certainly seem way more adept interpersonally than we ever were but at the same time they do not seem to value things that we fought for to keep them safe and progressing.
Is there a forum for ideas and exchanges and even social action that might work with where you want to be here? nest for ideas and progress?
Fred, I know where you are coming from. The politics are making me tired. I would like to follow your path. I find that I look for amusing and animal based videos in the day. I do not have the words to explain how disappointed and disjointed(?) I feel about the world just now.