What is it exactly that has caused a huge pandemic of sorts which has infected the entire world. In fact, it seems to me as if the situation is simply getting worse, not even by the day, but by the hour. This is the pandemic which grows ever deeper and deeper, making its cure ever more distant. It is the epidemic running amok through the ranks of all society, from top to bottom. It is the epidemic of stupid.
We have a President who claims not to know why he had an MRI at his last physical, which was early, but he knows the result was terrific. He cannot remember the name of a book he wrote. But it was a fine book. He cannot remember where he stashed several members of his cabinet, but they're all doing a fine job.
Just ask him for an example, and he might point out to you his oh so wonderful member of the Cabinet, RFK Junior, in charge of the health and wellbeing of the people of this nation, even as he engages in disemboweling the CDC. At the exact time when we hear there is a new flu strain circling the world. For which the current vaccine does not work! How long will it take to regear up, relocate the scientists and researchers? And who the hell knows how long it will take to get a vaccine in place, even as Japan is already suffering under its presence, as is Canada. And guess who abuts Canada? But everything is just fine and dandy.
Just ask.
For sure it is.
When the same idiot man mentioned that we, whomever is 'we', have lost some sovereignty over New York State what the hell is he talking about? He then states proudly that he has canceled the swearing in ceremony for thousands of people awaiting that special moment in their lives. People who have jumped through the hoops, dotted every i, crossed every t, did everything they had to. For over 10 years. As legal residents and now denied the culmination of that effort. Canceled by the Orange Dude who "wants to make sure that everything is the way it's supposed to be." As if the people doing this are amateurs at the process and he knows best - as usual.
So he says.
So we know it is not so.
It is simply his xenophobia especially for the common people, even as he wines and dines in a gala dinner The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, tainted by the murder of Khashoggi. Or deciding it was ok for Wittkin to negotiate with the evil head of Hamas, that murderous barbaric horde of terrorists and advocates of bestial behavior.
'Funny', because I thought we don't negotiate with terrorists. But I guess I was mistaken. That's gone by the board too.
As far as the plebeians of the world, perhaps we really do need to examine to the slightest detail our diets and the air we breathe. The water we swallow and the medications we ingest. And yes, even the violence that has suffused this world. How do we voluntarily and insanely cheer people who are murderers? Abominations on the face of this earth. How do we allow the application and assignment of all the pejorative terms that they deserve on to their victims?
Where have our brains gone?
Why do we persist in voting for those who know not how to govern, who have not a scintilla of true caring for the electorate? You struggle to put food on the table, nutritious food, not always succeeding, not always enough for three squares a day. They dine on items of haute cuisine phenomenally expensive and just about most of that food is tossed into a garbage can.
For that matter, why is it that so many of us struggle to keep the roof over our head and keep it leak free as well? How are we to afford constant rising rents and exorbitant housing prices? Even as the Uber rich flip from one house to another, from one side of the world to the other. The comparison and contrast is so vivid, so unbalanced that people in the throes of desperation to change the status quo, end up electing and championing people who will only make the situation worse. With pie in the sky promises. Impossibilities to ever become realities.
For that matter, why and wherefore have we all seemed to have taken deep quaffs from the goblet of Hate? Since when and why have we justified the growth of Hate, the arrows it unleashes, the fear it induces. The demented actions pursued in the name of this Hate have no logical explanation, for there is none to be had. Nor is there any room left between the thought and the evil deed. It has become almost simultaneous even as its violence spreads throughout the globe, wreaking havoc upon individuals, upon communities, upon their infrastructure. Upon their dignity, upon anything that reminds all that we, humanity, are all one mankind and if we hate others, we are actually hating ourselves.
Oh, good job!
What is it that has legitimized this terrible situation? Did we indeed drink too deeply from poisoned wells? Have we ingested tainted food, been prescribed pills which attack the sane psyche and delivers at the other end a twisted, warped view of life? Is it the way in which we ignore each other? Speaking more to our phones and robots than we do to people with whom we used to converse easily and often. Is it that we cannot hear anything anyway as we walk around with things stuffed into our ears, blasting music and blocking sound from others. Otherwise known as words of conversation.
What is it that has gone awry? In this world is there, in fact, any possible manner by which we can unkink our paths through life and each other? Discard pessimism. Choose optimism. Negativity for positivity. Can we indeed do this before it becomes nigh on to impossible. The gate has slammed shut and reopening will require great effort. Can we possibly find that effort within us?
Great doubt on that.
What I do know is that if we do not straighten ourselves out, if we do not take a look in the mirror, shake ourselves by the neck, we are going to quicken our slide down that slippery slope at ever increasing speed. Evermore dire consequences to the point of no return
Empty promises will not do the trick. Pie in the sky predictions will lose their taste, go stale, for there is no reality to them. We, the people of this globe, are in dire need of Education, proper and truthful. We need to learn how to be friendly with each other once again rather than always be looking for the point of difference which will make life even harder and more violent.
The instructions how to turn our society around have been written over and over again in both the Old and the New Testament. In the words of the prophets. In the Psalms of David. And the wisdom of Solomon. We have also been given the words of the Lord G-d Above.
Charity. Justice. Humility. Kindness.
To walk hand in hand with G-d.
Time is almost up, folks. We have squandered our yesterdays. We have trampled over the possibilities of our todays. We have made it ever more difficult to achieve good, positive tomorrows.
We have done that, all by ourselves.
And ain't we proud!
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