I’m watching the world burn. I got marshmallows.

Every day, my news feed fills with what have to be bad jokes about where it’s going. Thus, I have found myself more and more as George Carlin described himself in this interview. He didn’t care anymore. He wasn’t emotionally invested in the outcome. He simply said what he said, tried to make the world a bit better with his work, and letting it go.

Recently, on some social media or the other, I wrote that while the Earth is burning and I can do nothing to change it, I can have marshmallows. In a comment on another post, I pointed out that people roasting marshmallows were more likely to be talked to than people who are shouting at people and calling them stupid. The ignorance does, indeed, burn, but if they are ignorant, it’s not really their fault, is it?

So hand them a marshmallow and stand by the fire. It’s the best opportunity you’ll have to remove the ignorance that is causing the world to burn.

The world is burning. Stop shouting. Go get the marshmallows.