Wrestling with how to deal with the new reality. It's an on-going conversation in our household. Things are moving fast, things we thought we knew, and believed in, seem to be crumbling around us. Truth has turned out to be fungible, the rule of law fragile, the constitution a raggedy old piece of paper. The liars, con-men, creeps, the filthy-rich tech bros, the newly-minted American oligarchs, white supremacists, yes, the new American fascists, are out front and center, goose-stepping around, and lording it over everyone else here and around the globe.
I am the type that is always looking for a silver lining in any dark cloud. If everyone is leaning to the dark side, I look to the light, oh yeah, and sometimes, of course it's vice versa. You know maybe I'm just a recalcitrant, subversive mother? I was something of a left-wing radical in my teen years, that same righteous feeling is zipping thru me these days too. Anyway, the "power of positive thinking," is not exactly working for me. I can see the downside of our present circumstances in vivid technicolor. The upside is barely even a wispy little cloud.
Still, I do my best to try to conjure up some hope and positivity. Seems it's just in my nature.
Maybe these evil-doers, these over-the-top liars, these chaos agents, are so public, so bold, so arrogant, so blundering, and so obviously wrong they will burn out sooner than later? Maybe folks, the teeming millions will wake up to their malevolent idiocy? And they will rise up and throw off the bonds of evil? Yikes. That is a slender reed to cling to. History tells us that the lies can live and rule in any era.
Human Beings are expert at lying to themselves and are happy to live with the lie until their last breath. Remember those folks dying of Covid, refusing to believe that they had Covid? Yeah, that was a thing. It's hard to watch our fellow humans swallow and cling to, the lies, that's for sure. And it could sink us all. I will be over here leaning to the light, but, you know, the boat has hit the ice-berg, we are taking on water, and there aren't many life-boats to go around. Sounds like a movie...
