SOMETIMES I WONDER....

     Sorry for being AWOL these past few days. Could not be helped and I just forgot to tell of this prior to my absence. So mea culpa!
     Did you ever wonder at the absurdities of life? For example: why is it that it is always a "courageous" battle with some disease that has a fatal ending? Why is it courageous? Shit happens. Period. And one has to deal with it, like it or not. So yes, it is a crappy card one has to play when hit with cancer or some awful disease and one knows the inevitable outcome. Sometimes one is lucky and there is a cure, or something to hopefully lessen the impact, but why courageous. What is one to do? Just give in, or commit suicide? Well, I think that the ability to accept something or decide to take one's life is also a decision of courage. A different kind of courage, but still courage.
     And what about people out there who simply cannot see where the world is headed. Or the people who cannot see the irony in situations. Example? Okay. So the man who hides everything, the man who refuses to release tax information, medical records of truth, who lies through his teeth every time he opens his mouth, this man is now demanding, raving about the 'mustness' of releasing secret papers by the Justice Department!!! Goose and gander, folks, goose and gander. But it seems that truth and transparency is a forgotten term and policy in this administration. It seems that separation of powers, of three independent branches of government, a basic founding principle of the country - all this is to be tossed out with the trash as we more and more accept a raving lunatic, no better than any two cent tinpot dictator who is doing the same to his republic. Orban. Duterte. So many African and Asian countries. South America as in Venezuela where the supposed head of government is actually starving his countrymen to death! And in the meanwhile, Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump are getting fatter and fatter, more bloated, even as more and more of their countrymen fall into the category of food insecure - meaning they do not know where the next meal for their children or themselves is coming from, will it even be there?? 
     Have you ever wondered at the scary future in sight, the one that echoes the past? Talking with people over the past few days I began to tremble as I thought over their words and beliefs. These are good people, thinking people, kind people, charity givers, helpers to those who need help and yet, and yet...
     I sat there and heard the canards of the past being applied to new groups. So immigrants are the people bringing disease into the country, from the flu to polio and beyond. So these are the people taking the jobs of deserving people. These are the people who are demanding equality. Truly? So they want socialism, or so I am told. How we get there from here is beyond me. I hear the scary echoing of the accusations throughout the centuries that Jews were filthy, that Jews brought disease, started the Black Plague, brought cholera to the populace, sucked the blood out of the economy, and various other disgusting claims and of course, do not forget the horns. And now these canards are being applied to others. Does no one wonder at the similarities, for hate never changes, only its targets. 
     Does no one wonder where the future will go, what an apocalyptic world will be like? Evidently Sweden has hit the point of belief in a problematic future as they hand out pamphlets explaining what such a world will be like, be it from war, natural disaster or cyberwarfare which brings the world back to pre electric times!!!
     Does any one out there wonder at what we are doing to the world? Does any one wonder out there if all these natural disasters are messages from a Higher Power or is it just our own stupidity and limited or blindfolded or ignorant thinking. Does one wonder how we got here? And why we continue to allow it?
     Does one wonder at the gross attitudes and actions of child molesters as they openly advertise and order their next victim? Yes, order! Like a meal from a fast food outlet. Disgusting. But why do they think it is okay? Because we have lost our morality. We have lost our sense of humanity, our oneness of humanity, never mind the color or the religion or country of origin. We have become perpetually angry, non hearing of others, deaf and blind to the necessary turns and paths we must negotiate. We skip over the story of infants, children still toddlers and in fact, all minors, who are separated from parents because these same parents dared to dream - just as our parents and grandparents and great grandparents dared to do. Only they do it in a more hostile world, hostile to those who would join us, become part of our country. We have a messed up system and rather than fix it, we make it worse.
     Did you ever wonder if we are going to hell in that proverbial handbasket or have we made it there already?