I wish I could be funnier. I’ve been told more than once that I need to take life less seriously and lighten up, but I’m finding that difficult to do. There’s too much going on that should have all of us sitting up and paying attention.
No doubt, the saturation of media content can exacerbate the sense of futility and doom, to the point of causing one to think that everybody is an asshole. That’s not true, of course, but the general atmosphere anymore exudes this sense of everyone being either right or wrong, everyone being either a victim or a perpetrator, weak or strong. That overall, humanity is heading for a cliff because we can’t get out of our own way.
Self-preservation looms large, ignorance and old habits die hard, money still talks, and we‘re all learning the hard way that life’s twists and turns can leave some of us shortchanged, scarred, lacking in social graces and coping skills, walking around with a chip on our shoulder, feeding delusions of grandeur, even posing as President of the United States.
Yup, right now, for me, it’s all about the clown who’s loitering behind the Resolute Desk, who spends as much or more time golfing and pontificating and tending to his own personal well-being than he does doing the work he was elected to do. He’s a walking, talking conflict of interest. I hate to use the word enigma, because that describes someone who’s mysterious in a good and interesting way.
Look around. What do you see? Can you honestly say that things are good in the world? That things are trending positively? I suppose if we turned off all our devices and flew blind and deaf for a while, then we could be lulled into a false sense of peace and quiet. The irony is that we need to connect, we need to stay connected, informed, interested, committed. We’re all being called upon to engage in some difficult work, which includes wading through the volume of bullshit that comes our way every day, sorting through the noise and distractions and finding a truth that resonates, that sticks, that awakens a sense of moral outrage over leaders who suck, who keep fitting that old mold of self-interested, disillusioned, deceptive, lie-through-their-teeth, cold-hearted monsters who have no use or respect for the people who were deceived into elevating them to power.
We should be way beyond tired of this same old, same old…
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