Meaning vs. Meaninglessness

Existential choices and our partners in politics.

Health is wealth. It’s a big part of what money cannot buy. In case you’re wondering, another’s love and happiness are the others.

Health requires lots backup for support and success. More than doctors and hospitals, health is one of the things that comes with a U.S. citizenship, or once did. An extended life with less disease. Good food, relative peace and safety at home and in one’s neighborhood. But this is about the MAGA cult and the party it swallowed nearly whole and how they are accelerating damage in the country to each of us. Guns, lost safety of our children in schools. Educational possibilities. The discussion on abortion is more complex, fraught with more lies and deflection than a discussion about Hunter Biden‘s laptop and I wish it were hyperbole.

The kernel of who we are begins and ends in a miracle moment. I imagine it as one and although I entered the scene, I don’t recall, but I think it was in an excited silence and I imagine the end will be similar. Even if surrounded by noise, the moment will be if not sacred, important. It’s the one and only I get. I’m feeling crowded out in the yelling for owing the other guy. oh, it’s me, too, yikes.

The stage of Republican’s desperate to find supremacy within the confusion of the variety packs fantastical versions of reality. These are the creatures asking to caretake you, me the planet and our future, at least four years of it. While shouting over the candidate at the adjacent podium, the crowd is booing and cheering in an attempt for one to overtake the other. We are assaulted and insulted in one motion, way to go media.

Monte Hall and COME ON DOWN tactics sprang from the Mom of All reality shows, Queen for a Day. I recall the applause meter and the teary lady with the best sob story was helped into the chair, a crown put on her weeping noggin as the certificates for food, the washer, the help she needed, but couldn’t afford, was wheeled out and audience participation was a feel good time for all in a gush. As a side trip to what is called the origin of reality tv, and the grand daddy of the MAGA cult as developed by Trump, I offer a clip of the tv show, which was developed after the radio show was a hit. A staple till 1964, a gentler than todays MAGA, a blast from the past, in case you’re too young to know.

Buying votes with lies the campaigning has begun in a lane unlikely to win no matter how wonderful the impossible sounds. Queen for a Day was more real than the awful display offered by Fox. A station that’s so lost it’s way, why would we expect differently.

The “other” Fox, still in play is Tucker Carlson, weaseling around with Trump in a one to one festival of creepy lies and talk of Civil War and if I’m not mistaken a wandering down memory lane about dead Jeff Epstein and Barr and did he kill himself? and well, what happened there Mr. Trump in inexplicable wandering into murder territory unless I simply wandered into the wrong clip.

The consensus as to who inhabits the presidency and how is still undecided by the offerings of candidates being weighed against their golden child who surrenders to his arrest later today, 8-24-23 at 4:30 presumably.

Niki Haley had a few moments of true wisdom. Abortion can’t be eliminated by anyone on that stage because of 60 votes needed featuring a the math concept of greater than and less than, leading to tweets that dems sanction abortion through and up to and until the moment of birth.

Turning back the hands of time isn’t possible or necessarily wanted. In the case of civilization, polite and functioning is my choice over hollering and the anger displayed in the whole presentation of candidates offered to the public for consideration for the office of President of the United States.

Thanks for being here. Odd times indeed.