PRECIPICES REDUX

 

 Ever wonder if you are indeed living in a true reality? Ever wonder, perhaps hopefully, that you are actually dreaming, or more correctly 'nightmaring', and a wake up is possible, desirable indeed. Neo times some exponential factor? Unfortunately, this is not the case - (or is it?). We are stuck, mired so deeply within the muck of our own making, that even people who brought us to this point are showing signs of despair and a clearer understanding of 'oh, what you have done!'

“would amend Tennessee law and designate "a person who has been issued an enhanced handgun carry permit" as a member of law enforcement. "As introduced, expands the definition of 'law enforcement officer' to include a person who has been issued an enhanced handgun carry permit; provided, that the permit is not suspended, revoked, or expired, for purposes of authority to carry a firearm under certain circumstances”

The weak in morals, the braggarts anxious to demonstrate 'heroism, the lacking in restraint, those deficient in comprehension of the rules of civilized society would jump on this ‘opportunity. Full enthusiasm. And terror and havoc would reign.

Oh yes - high noon on Fifth Avenue or Main Street, USA. Every day. Oh yes. Be afraid. Very much so. And a "Good day" to you! A situation most devoutly to be unwished. Or is that wrong in the climate of today's negativity, hostility, and brotherhood?

Of course, we could have reached this point through despair. Here we go again with yet another variant, a more dangerous one. Just as we have reached a point of saturation of having had it with the pandemic, with saying "the hell with it" as we braved entry into former behavior. Well, I am keeping my mask on for the future. For how long? Time will tell, right?

Precipices galore; everyone will find one to his/her liking. Here we are on the verge of a civilization killing WWIII. A consequence of which will have us fighting the next war with spears and sharpened staves. Another dead end for humankind. Perhaps we deserve that dead end. We most definitely have not learned anything from history. Watch us repeat it again. Take a piece of a country, like Crimea from Ukraine, and watch the nations of the world cower before the invader. Oh, yes, a new Sudetenland. 

Completing the replication of history, a video is planned to 'demonstrate' the righteousness of invasion, for the Ukrainians apparently, most egregiously, attacked the Russians!! Justify the unjustifiable, and here we go. Not a roller coaster ride with its thrills, but a real, true ride into disaster, into a world too awful to contemplate. But have it we will. And all because of us. All because we refused to acknowledge our precipice standing, our willful blindness to the truth, to the dangers around us, to the necessity for wise leaders who made wise decisions. Nope, that never happened, for our leaders, chosen and not, betrayed us, led incursions into the heretofore verboten land of revolution and treason. “If POTUS allows this to occur… we’re driving a stake in the heart of the federal republic,” read the text, described by The Post as having been sent by a member of the House Freedom Caucus, a far-right group of Republicans, who had “knowledge of the president’s planning for that day”. The precipice, its unstable crumbling edge, gave way.

A new Star Trek series is planned for debut on May 5, 2022, bringing with it "the sense of nostalgia hope, optimism, exploration and sense of adventure.” If we all are apparently yearning for that, why do we not strive to reach that goal, fulfill that yearning. Beats me. People are extremely difficult to fathom at times. Much to our dismay.

Not even a glorious Bee Gee concert last night can take away the awful taste in our mouths, the awful visions before our eyes. We most definitely are not listening to the words of these songs which plead for, speak for, a shared humanity. The words of today too often negate that call with words of violence and hostility, even when speaking of a supposed loved one.

Is there hope. There is always hope, even if only a wisp, even in the most god-awful situations. Humankind has that within its makeup. We hope and pray that it gets recognized within enough good people to resurrect itself and just possibly lead to a better outcome. Or is that wishful thinking. You decide. I know where I stand and what I hope. Are they compatible? Time will give us the answer we have chosen. One way or another.