ALL TIED UP - OVERTIME?

An evidently wise man who sees the truth, called Tucker Carlson "the worst human being" - for this country, for the world. How prescient of him! However, I am not so sure that he is correct in his call of the winner? Loser? of this particular contest. There is a plethora of possibilities - much to our detriment. Not to mention, dismay.

Perhaps, though it is that we are 'so' blessed with people of such creative talent that they have filled our shelves and airwaves with new myths, old realities, new realities, and truths that will make your hair stand up.

A particular new, unpleasant reality is the low temperature needed for people to simply explode, negating all social niceties in their determination for ....who the hell knows! Abusing servers, assistants, flight attendants, fellow passengers - it matters not who they are, only that they irritate the person enough to make him simultaneously implode and explode.

Why is that? A Harvard professor opines it is because "We've been skating thin ice in the past year, and if the weight [becomes] too much, the ice cracks. I think that's what we're seeing,".      Perhaps that is the explanation, or at least part of it. However, I opine as well, thinking that people have simply lost the veneer of proper societal behavior due to the lockdowns and lack of real interaction with others. We have, simply put, forgotten how to play nicely with others. Furthermore, we really don't want to anymore either. Simple as that. So ... preschool for adults?

We have grown in self indulgence. What we want, what we feel, well, out the mouth they are. Why not, we think, as we are at death's door, either from the pandemic and the ones to come, with their pesky variants, or we die from the myriad "side" effects of the vaccine, so obviously created under a deep state conspiracy, complete with hags stirring the pot of murky soup of vaccine, - so we are told and vindicated by such talented creators of new myths, new poisons, the demented, deranged former President, Trump.

Everything has become political. A Staunch Republican? Well, of course, you cannot take the vaccine. You have been warned. Simply disregard the current new reality of so many of the former deniers taking the shot - or, more loyal, to the bitter end, suffering, dying in the once again overcrowded ICU units set aside for COVID19. Admirable, loyal - even unto their preventable last breath. 

A corollary is to protest even unto violence the mask. Of course, it is a Democratic plot to mask people up, introduce them to communism through fibers of the mask, to brainwash them, to leave them convinced that Biden actually won the election, a myth, you know, as all right thinking people know, just know, that the election was stolen. Yup. Put down that mask. Breathe on others and breathe in their germs they so generously wish to share with you. Always and forever, be loyal and true to the GOP, never mind the lesser loyalty to one's country. Bah, humbug!!

With so many  Republicans filling the beds of our hospitals, admitting in the last minutes that it is not a hoax, please take the vaccine - too little, too late. How do we plan for a future when the country is so deeply enmeshed in its own folklore, that they disregard the possibility of misinformation from both mythologies and truth as well. No one hears anymore. No one cares to hear anymore. Too many have become deaf to all but the sound of their own words echoing in their progressively emptying brain cavities.

More good news? A glutton for punishment? Okay, so we have plague in Colorado. Overworked health personnel once again. Hopelessness and anger directly building up each other. An Olympics where evidently the message of universality and brotherhood has not yet been caught as one 'Olympian', leaves, avoiding wrestling an Israeli. South Korea introduces stereotypes over the  athletes of the world's nations as they march in, singing, dancing, cheering. Such nerve! Must they be taught to emulate the teaching of hatred all the time? Tsk.

Even so, with all this unpleasantness going on, we can look around and see newer, kinder myths and realities. A prominent sports figure, not Jewish, along with other athletes, Jewish and not, combine their efforts to campaign against the physical, life endangering violence in the rising anti Semitism of this nation of ours and for that matter, around the world. Even as hatred, baseless ugliness, grows in so many, too many places and formats.

Folks, we need to do better, We need to be better. We need to see those staffing the pantries, delivering to shut ins, helping those who need a hand or two or three to stand up and manage on their own. We need to concede that once upon a time this wonderful  country of ours welcomed, as one welcomes clean air, the presence of newcomers, the richness they injected into society. We were increasingly candid about past errors, continuing errors, and tried to correct, though overdoing at times. At least we were trying.

We need to encourage those who wish to build, to encourage, to share in the overwhelming qualities of humanity at its best, celebrate both our similarities and differences. We need to be better. The end.