... What's going on?" So questions a Jewish rapper as he interviews people in the street near a protest. trying to elicit answers with some knowledge and forethought, and, typically, received none. None! But oh, so sure in their dangerous ignorance. Apparently, a great deal of misinformation is floating around out there. Israeli hostages were not raped. Thirty-eight children were not slaughtered on October 7. Forty children hostages were not returned with great trauma and two never were horrifyingly manually strangled. In actuality, the truth is that it was all real and bloodily so. Scores of children lost both parents. And even more lost one. But that's a no, never mind, for the truth of the matter, is that Israel is the entity which rapes its female hostages! Sure as the day is long, these ignoramuses continue to spew pure unadulterated garbage untainted by any resemblance to truth. In fact, it appeared to be a great reveal that Hamas is actually a terrorist organization. Wow! Shocking!
Who'd a thunk! Or is that the problem? Is that why both my lands so close to my heart are at war within and without? Is the lack of thought of willing or unwilling instigation I don't know, for if I can answer that with any sense contained within, how can this be in this day and age? When even fake news gives one some intimation of what is going on? How can one remain so perverted, so attuned to the wrong, so deaf to the right. As the King of Siam said, “Is a puzzlement!”
Where do we go from here? There? In fact, anywhere? Is there, in fact, anywhere to go? I think not. As of this morning without much change other than to the negative, from all the yesterdays of recent times, the only change is the amping up of hate, the overflowing lakes and streams of lies and animosity beyond the pale, the weaponization of virulent toxic verbal Hatred, serving only to live immersed in Hatred, and encourage the action resultant - the lies, the encouragements to kill, to shoot, to harm, to maim, to burn, to denounce, to demean.
So, what's going on? Nothing good. See and think for yourself based on the witness of your own eyes and ears, the thought process allowed to operate properly. Arm yourself with knowledge able to refute the attack of words meant to convince you that what is not is actually. Refuse to accept these words of violence and hate and negativity as commands from on high for in truth, the only height they reach is the lowest, deepest depth to which humanity has fallen.
One theory turns to the divine. To find some causation within they speak of ghosts and demonic angels thrust out of Heaven, meant to do damage to the human population. Hence, we are blameless for how could one resist their power and the fear they induce in weaker creatures. Or their anger for they too have been driven from their original home This view is validated by art and literature even by the words found in holy books.
"I seemed to move among a world of ghosts
And feel myself the shadow of a dream."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Princess"
" When the Angels descend, they put on the garment of the world. If they did not put on a garment befitting this world, they could not endure in this world. And the world could not endure them." The Zohar
I disagree. I think this is a cowardly way out. Nothing will happen unless we accept the truth that every mishap, every misstep, every misdeed which has taken place within and by humans is upon humans. We are given free choice and if we submit to the more powerful inclination to do wrong, to let loose, to be free of restriction, then we are at blame. We are at fault That is the truth. Ugly. Disconcerting. Nevertheless, the truth.
Both a root and a result of poor thinking is clearly seen in our poor choice of leaders. Nations fallen prey willingly or not to the dictate of authoritarian figures whose intent is to break the nation's will and follow his dictates to the exclusion of all else, reinforce this rather tenuous condition by going along, or, finding it impossible to mount a recovery. dooms the affected nation. The nation becomes immersed in violence imbued with hate and in the rare moments of waking up are discouraged and yearn for somewhere else, someone else, some decency and welcome. This, too, is difficult, increasingly so, as nations defect from unity, and rather than fighting mutual problems of survival, they go it alone, pulling their heads inside artificial shells and then proceed in darkness so intense there is no way to foresee and plan and they stumble and fall. Some never to rise again.
In the USA how is one to deal with a blatantly insane, demented filled with rage poor imitation of a leader? He's so impressed by his own self imaginings and valuations that it is not enough for him to have the desire of being a Life Dictator of the United States. His ego needs constant feeding. He Photoshops himself wearing the hat of the pope, as if the conclave would select him as the next pope. This is the man to protect and serve this nation and the people within? He continues his attempts to dismantle America, as he weakens its foundations and shreds it piecemeal, completing the job his army of rebels did not in their violent attempt to overthrow the government. He is a traitor who has declared war on the Constitution and the judiciary, having already emasculated the legislative and executive branches of government.
This is a man who cannot understand reality as is, and reality as he would it. One cannot live in a fake world and expect things to go one's particular fashion or way. It is not real, and all things built upon it are gossamer thin and fall victim to any strong wind which comes its way. Such is this man, dangerously incompetent, insufficient, deranged. Lost in a world of his own, for in this real world, he cannot trust a soul. Thus, the constant disconcerting game of musical chairs. There is no balance, no solidity in this administration. Only paranoia and egotism.
Where does one go with that? Jealous of his position and power, insecure and horrified as to possible loss, he compensates in grandiosely wacky manner. In wishing to impress others with his own importance he engages in craziness which further delineates and highlights his ever-growing dementia and his superbly clearly unfitness for his role as president. The further he demeans himself the more people will see him for what he is - nothing good and certainly not of worth or of trustworthiness. Even as he prepares to sell Israel down the river or throw it under the bus as he contemplates the okaying of civilian atomic energy for the civilian population, this even as we know the deeds of Iran and its plans to be and use nuclear power to rain death upon many enemies and damage to humans and infrastructure be damned as far as he is concerned.
He is so needy in his constant thirst for flattery, for reassurance, for praise, that he takes upon himself the rather booed idea of replicating an iconic picture of a beloved President, JFK, at his desk, and his adorable son, John Junior, emerging from the kneehole. To photoshop that shamefully perverted photo and publicize it is anathema for anyone who lived through JFK's presidency and what it meant to America, to the world. In fact, this man is so the opposite of all of that. Feh!!!
Tomorrow, more in this rather challenged and challenging vein as they, along with the arteries of America and the world, are highly, dangerously impacted.
Can we indeed ever fully comprehend and understand the question and the answer to "what's going on"?
Perhaps before many yesterdays, we could have possibly answered with some confidence.
Today does not look that promising.
As for all the morrows to come, only "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" will inform us.
What the hell is truly going on?
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