THINGS WE KNOW ..BUT

Here are several ways many of us do life. We don't see reality. If we see reality, we don't act on it. If we act on it, we don't do it consistently. If we do it consistently, we are labeled as inflexible. If inflexible, we double down on how right we are. If proven wrong, we usually conclude that reality is overrated. After all, making sense, seeking the truth and questioning the majority aren't the noble aspirations that they used to be. The writing on the wall is normative rather than prophetic.

Okay, I'm just throwing this out there. Does it bother anyone that the next POTUS could have the last name of CLINTON or BUSH? A second Clinton or a third Bush, I don't think so. It certainly strains the idea of American Exceptionalism when we can't come up with a Capitalist Messiah to save us from our destructive inclinations. But how can voters complain about any POTUS when they keep re-electing tottering fools to the legislature who represent corporate interests or Wall Street rather than anything that comes close to "We The People." Ironically, it all fits into the designated pattern of mainstream acceptability. I think the phrases "stupid asses" or "sheep to the slaughter" seem to fit the way the multiple forms of BS are given normality, equal play or meritorious mention. Funny how the great critical minds are seldom self-reflective. Somehow you can say one thing one day and quite the opposite the next and the press will still somehow buy that it's based on consistency.

We are at this point after many years a blithering bozos on radio and TV saying any pie-eyed or wild-eyed thing that comes to their feeble brains. The best reality show would be a face to face confrontation, the more physical the better. I would go with Joe Scarborough. He's big, gets very angry and is that close to going for the throat with those who disagree with him. Of course, all Rush Limbaugh would have to do is fall on Joe to knock him out of the running. Besides the physicality involved, I think the one who can shout the loudest would do well. For this, I'd like to see Bill O'Reilly against Ed Shultz. Being quick witted should have some place in a pundit strike down, but maybe it should be restricted to those who don't have a staff of writers or a slick editing department.

I'm really impressed with how smart everyone is looking now with the newest development in Iraq. Whether you were fer it or agin it, it's rather apparent that few knew shit about what is going on or they did but still tried to make it conform to a political agenda that had very little meaning or purpose. Well guess what! Everyone who was wrong before will be wrong again. Yet that won't keep any of them from saying what needs to be presently done. Mainly because they know no more about war or religion than they did before because they don't let facts interfere with fantasy.

Contrary to what liberal pollyanna's believe, there is something rather beguiling about the differences in Islam as is in all other religions. Especially when they want to impose their particular difference on everyone else. What did the first Bush know that the second Bush couldn't figure out? But isn't it funny that so little is said of human rights, particularly rights for women and children, in Muslim countries that we do "business." 

What is it about organized religion that wants to dictate how people should live, dress, behave, eat, make observances, have sex, never criticize the teachings, offer blind allegiance as needed, give designated monies, and see the hierarchy  as the mediator between them and God? Less severe approaches seem to be more practical but there are always the extremists who want purity, control and compliance to a particular understanding no matter how that has to come about. All the evil they do is somehow excused and even possibly rewarded.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

It's pretty simple. If you violate the rightful equality of others, if you reserve for yourself that which you deny others; if you profit from depriving others; if you are right and everyone else is wrong; if you believe you have special privileges based on riches, intelligence, fame, position, race, connection to God, class or personality; if you lie or falsely accuse; or if you are just full of hubris, you no doubt have a place in the world. That's just how the mainstream works. ...But isn't it funny that it doesn't work any better than it does?

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN