In the midst of huge crowds do we indeed look for Waldo? His bright striped cap and his forever mingling among the masses or will Waldo now be found hiding among the elites, the top 1%. who hold most of the wealth of the world in their hands. Or one of the chanting mobs calling for what they do not know. For what they do not understand. In mindless acquiescence to those who are pulling the strings of them all.
Or is it in fact better that we put aside Waldo. In the vain search for the real one, the challenge is too overwhelming, too difficult, as the disappearances of so many American icons have accelerated or been changed irrevocably, at least under present world situations. so changed, or discarded, that their discovery and identification is quite difficult.
And so, we turn instead to another icon, Rod Serling and his constant everlasting background theme: doo, doo, doo, doo, etc. That is a theme that many of us realize is quite appropriate for today's times, for indeed, we know not very much in any type of secure and comforting manner, what exactly is in store for us in the most current episodes of life. In fact, it is indeed quite difficult to understand how the hell we got into this situation.
How and why have so many turned to an evil past, a backwards past. Endorsed it over too many times into the greedy and evil hands of those who would make it much worse than the original source. The instigation and raucous, evil intentions, it's inappropriate and dangerous positions on life, are certainly out of our hands and out of our minds as we follow like sheep the latest most current ideations of the ugliness that has suffused the world before.
Now we have allowed it to be brought out into the eyes of the world under the bright light of the sun. Under this exposure, the ugliness is fully exposed. Yet few have seen it or admit having seen its future, the ugliness which awaits the viewers. Its exposure. rather than putting pressure on the evil and wrong, is perversely turned into an invigorating, exhilarating, encouraging element of life. The gates to Hell are opened, crushing beneath their weight the social mores and morals, all the legal positions defining and inhibiting evil and wrong. It indeed liberates those who buy into it. Who enjoy the wildness of its evil intentions and its evil actions.
More and more of the population of the world are taking this developing situation, well developed in too many cases, as permission to take it and run with it, to grow it. The crowds grow. Evil chanting intensifies in words and intent and volume. Threatening those at whom it is targeted. Individual acts of violence to the point of murder are proliferating.
And unfortunately, most of the world, even if they disapprove, say nothing. Thinking that if they ignore the squeaking wheels, the quiet ones will win the day. But that is poor thinking, for that is not the way of the world. Not at all. What results is an intensification of the potential and actualization of evil and horror to the point of no return. The sum of the parts is equal to more than it seems, for the synergy is maximized in its power to do evil, to do wrong, to indeed drain the humane out of humanity.
This is not a new thing in the history of mankind. We have gone down this horrible road many times before. So many times, these wars on those roads have been deemed "Last war". The "final war". "The war to end all wars". But it is never so, is it? We managed to gin up old problems, old arguments. create new arguments, defy the truth and the facts, ignore Justice and Right. We give way to our worst and most base intents. With the refrain of Rod Serling growing louder and louder in the background, we begin to feel the hopelessness of what, in fact. is awaiting us? Power and Wealth. Arrogance and Exclusiveness. These are the names of the games in the approaching episodes.
One is supposed to think and wonder. One has cause to worry. Millennia ago, the power of the true Prophets was taken away from mankind. After that, our connection to the Lord was diminished. Humanity was left quite often to fly alone, and our flights often went off course. In some cases, people were thrilled that there were no more scoldings, no more threats. Freedom to forge ahead as they saw fit. Unfortunately, humanity forgot the warnings, too quickly, too deeply, almost completely erasing them from their soul and their memory. And here we are now,
Everything in the prophecies, in the warnings of what would happen if humanity did not get its act together again and return to the proper pathways through life. Look around and see them come to life. Europe is burning in literal fire. Enormous degrees of heat. Mighty rivers round the world, including in the US, are running dry. Water is becoming the most precious natural resource.
We have damaged the economy and the environment so that it is impossible to carry on in a proper and predictable manner. Shortages, scarcity, rising prices and fewer products available, growing tension as to whom is entitled to a portion of whatever is at stake and the inevitable disagreements. The population of the earth is more than capable of doing the research and applying the elbow grease necessary for new pathways and new ideas and new medical research. We prefer to ignore that path and fight over what remains rather than what could be. Our energy and our funds are expended on misplaced priorities. And though we are so advanced, at this point, the muck is too thick to move forward. In fact, it pulls us back.
Fire. Drought. Crazing heats. What is next? I think we're already beginning to see that. The very earth itself is breaking apart. The sun. The eclipse. Once considered in earlier societies as an omen of evil, that they have displeased their Lord, Well, what about the total solar eclipse? What is that meaning for us? Is it to remind us of the power of the Lord above? That He does not have to wait for natural things to coincide? That he can create and collide and do as He so desires, for He is the One who created it? He is the one who has been disrespected.
"Nature is not on our side anymore."
Fact checking the administrations claims and finding great holes and fallacies and exaggerations. Even gross lies.
"Democratic Socialists.” All over the world, promising the pies but never reaching the skies and never reaching fulfillment. Other than an increase of poverty, intolerance, and dictatorship.
I read of these words from the 1967 film As Good as It Gets. One character says to another, "Where do they teach you to talk like that? Sell crazy someplace else. We're all stacked up here." The writer of the article in which I found this, goes on to say, "I wish we could say to both these extremes we're all stocked up on crazy here in American politics. Sell it someplace else". But it is not just here, is it? The crazed rumors permeating the world. Even as the tragedy of Ceuta is blamed on Israel!. The clear gaping divisions in the choices we are facing in the current and soon to be elections. With choices neither good nor bad, in fact mostly evil. Boding more troubled years and a vastly challenged earth.
Do we accept the growing monarchy as desired by Trump and his followers. And worse, if the far right attain office? Or do we vote for those who plainly and openly claim to be wanting to destroy society. To cancel banks and police. To cancel democracy in the name of another political system which has already failed many times over where it has been installed. And along with them comes the blatant and toxic JewHatred - of the Jewish people as a whole and the state of Israel in particular and very vocal in this Hatred and intention to foment and install and grow wherever they are in the seats of power.
We need to ask ourselves. Why do we stay quiet in the face of the truth, reaching up and smacking us right side and left side? Do we turn both cheeks? Ignore the filth and the horror, the hate. The filthy name calling by the members of ICE who chase down those they deem as animals and treat as such. Hurting them, harming them. Using terms which I do not care to type up on this blog. From whence did this come? From what darkness deep within America?
We must ask ourselves what one reporter asked of another. "What is it that ordinary Americans want of their government?" I believe we have to add the question of what we will allow for our government to be and to act.
And extend that to the world at large. Why? Because yesterday, today and tomorrow tell us the truth. We do not live in boxes. We do not live behind impermeable walls and blockades. We are all susceptible to what is going around. Remember, what goes around will indeed come around.
Ask yourself, ourselves. Who are we? What do we wish to be? Where do we wish to go? And what will we do, allow or disallow in that quest?
I think I already know how the good Lord Above. thinks. How we have been evaluated and found wanting. I only hope and pray that we can do something to forestall any further consequences foretelling of more harm, more discordance, more danger and more existential questions.
doo, doo, doo doo....
And where exactly is Waldo now?
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