The Grifter Era...

Folk #1: When we recall this era, and well, Dear Pilgrim, if we survive, and have the luxury of looking back, you will be forgiven if you try your damnedest not to recall this fucking lame-ass, era, I mean, I am sure we can all understand why you'd want to erase every last vestige of this era from your reeling, gobsmacked, deeply faltering, & troubled consciousness; we will recall it as the era when everyone fucking cooked their brains on over-amped, shit-sandwich-type bullshit enthusiastically foisted upon us by rich & powerful grifters, scumbags, moral cretins, greedy fucks, super-sized-assholes, corruptly creepy criminals who ruled & lorded over us, stealing all the perks & attention, sucking all the oxygen out of the atmosphere, and filling our heads & hearts with gaseous, noxious, toxic bilge. Compromised weasels lying to us, in all major areas of our culture: business, media, show-business, politics, etc. Searching for Intelligent Life on the Planet is something I do every morning, checking in on the news of the day, searching for those vanishing chimeras: Intelligence, Humor, Grace, Beauty, Humility, Goodness. Let me tell you, those qualities are rare indeed, going extinct moment to moment. We live in the land of manufactured, gaudily-packaged, hard to digest shite.