Christmas has come and gone and getting and spending has had a hay day in part because AI knows and IT knows if you’ve been sleeping, it knows when you’re awake, IT knows if you’ve been good or bad so be Good for Goodies sake.
Alas, you were so profoundly correct Ms.Tomlin: no matter how cynical I get I just cannot keep up. But darn it all, I just can’t help trying. Think it may have something to do with sanity and surviving and being too old and unable to retreat into de fault my chums and I discovered in the 60s when the bad guy assassins never missed the good guys and my country, tis of thee destroyed Vietnamese villages and their occupants in order to save them…. and the cons, neo and otherwise were happily shredding our safety net.. That is to say, in them bad ol days: when they went low, we got high.
But we also took to the streets, the parks and the campuses with our music and our marches. Has anyone noticed that since forever and everywhere, it is more often than not that it is the students who ACT on their compassion and understanding before their parents and their teachers?
We need to raise hell and educate again because the President -to- be is poised to make this nation white again, restore patriarchy and burn up the planet. Not content with owning Boardwalk and Park Place and having innumerable Get Out of Jail Free cards to hand out, our Dear Leader is switching games and is now a Ready Risk Player wanting to eminent domain or employ the Marines to possess Greenland and Panama, perhaps annex Canada and if need be, according to his mighty mentor Musk, ‘we’ may need also to ‘coup’ them Lithium Republics to the South in order to liberate their lithium to keep our screens serving us sex and violence and whatever else will get us to reach for our credit cards.
Onward with and for Peace, Love and Justice.