It is actively hostile to it. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. It gives you a sense of deja vu all over again. As our experience teaches us the reliability of our own point of view, we begin to entertain the dangerous suspicion that those people out there may not know what they're talking about. There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Stupidity is for life.
Unhappiness is the ultimate form o' self-indulgence. It is a supreme form of arrogance to assume someone else's problems are entirely your fault. Nothing happens in the past. What was, was. What is, is.