“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”Albert Einstein

I don’t know about you, but this has been a stressful time, in terms of the Golden Age of America. It feels very much like fool’s gold. The worst part is a total helplessness to do anything about this shit storm of self-indulgence, piloted by a man with a very small penis and a very low IQ.

Now, before you get the wrong idea, this is not going to be some asinine treatise on the Six Easy Steps To Coping. On the contrary, it is just me, trying to give voice to the feelings many of us are having at the moment. 

I think many of us like to take comfort in the idea that there has been a positive progress in the trajectory of humanity, a big mistake. There is this flaw in our DNA that seems to inevitably come to the fore. It goes by the names of Greed-Hatred-Ignorance. My pal, the Buddha, was quick to point these out early on in his teachings. What it means to me is that these traits are an inherent part of our human nature. Our task is to be conscious of them, in order to overcome their temptation and we can and we do, just some of us.

A major challenge with those tendencies is they can be intoxicating, especially with penile and IQ deficiencies. Now, when you add ego into the gumbo, you got yourself a clusterfuck of historic proportions. Actually, they feed the ego and create the rite of righteousness, worst of all.

None of the above is any consolation for people like us. Trying to understand the why doesn’t mitigate its effect. Hoping for instant karma is a great song by John Lennon, but not a valuable tool in the coping toolbox of the moment. Ultimately, history will be his karma. 

I got a good one and it is called compassion. It doesn’t change the reality, but it can help ameliorate feelings of being alone with all this. Angry, individual outbursts may feel cathartic for a moment, but then you are right back where you were. Writing about it is not automatically like talking about it, but it’s close.

Since the beginning of our time on this planet, whenever you choose to start the clock, we have been and always will be a work in progress. We have this horrible tendency of getting lost in our power over others and it has never worked out well. The pendulum has swung from seriously fucked up, to not so fucked up and back again. We are incredibly imperfect and our inability to accept it and make peace with it has been our own worst enemy. 

“Mirror, mirror on the wall” is a fairytale. There have always been people, who see what they want, because to truly look at themselves is soul blinding. To have no idea of the consequences of your actions is to have no idea who you are. Causing the suffering of others is a crime against all humanity with no pardon in the Court of Conscience.

It is one thing to be an incompetent fool, but it is totally another to be so mean spirited, you don’t care at all about the suffering your actions cause others. His legions of supporters simply embolden him to be his worst self. The runaway ego craves and thrives on applause.

We have barely begun to witness the legal pushback that is incubating and calculating at this very moment. Yes, the system is corrupt and always has been. At the same time, there are people and organizations that lay in wait for their moment in the adversarial sun. By the way, State governments have enormous power, bequeathed to them in the Constitution and don’t count them out. There are many blue, State politicians who will suck up to the spotlight of national attention and do their job.

I must say that as of this moment, I am seriously disappointed in the lack of donkey defense in our House and Senate. They were spun around royally in the national election by choosing a candidate guaranteed to lose, whether she appeared on Joe Rogan or not. A woman of color was never going to win, the delusion of a completely out of touch group of people. It didn’t matter how many famous people got on stage with her. The wish and the truth can frequently collide. In the meantime, they should knee-jerk, vote NO on absolutely everything vomited up by the White House.

It is a bit late for the blame game, not to mention it is totally unproductive. Of course, none of the explanations and rationalizations are of any help to those of us, who look in that same mirror. The truth is, what I am looking for can’t be seen in any mirror, because externals are not the issue. How we deal with what is inside each of us is the task at hand and we do have control over it, which I guess is my theme.

I am going to take a leap of faith and assume if you have been reading my stories for a while, I am not about to become the recipient of whacked-out hate mail, although it would be entertaining. So, when I use words like “we” and “us”, I am not walking the one-way plank to oblivion. I am certainly no influencer with the secret formula of how to endure what is coming our way. 

So, “we” are all in this together and I think it is important to not lose sight of that. No, it doesn’t make it any better, but none of us are alone in all this and I think that matters. Being there for others is one way to be there for yourself, too. Am I holding on to some secret solution for enduring this shit show? Not a chance.

It is important to realize where you are at the moment, regardless of what is going on around you. Who you are and what matters has not changed in a couple of weeks. OK. OK. It has been fucked up since the stolen 2020 election, not to mention the love fest of J6. The idea you can do whatever you want in society is a formula for chaos. Being on the receiving end of chaos and relentless, political-power orgasms absolutely sucks. 

Not that it is any consolation, but the show has just started. Smothering the system with executive orders temporarily sucks the oxygen out of the room, a brilliantly, calculated move by the Petty Penile One. We are not the only ones feeling overwhelmed and gasping from a lack of sane air. I know it is not some political, rope-a-dope, because there’s no opposing strategy in place,  there wasn’t and there isn’t, but it’s coming. Plus, plenty of MAGA maggots are going to find themselves on the receiving end of his messianic, megalomaniacal, unconstitutional,  muscle-flexing. It’s a guarantee, because he doesn’t give a shit about them. He only gives a shit about himself.

In the absence of having a seriously out of date bottle of Soma, we are all stuck having to deal with what it is. Like all of you, I have no idea where this will take us. All we can ever ask for are moments of joy and that hasn’t changed. I’d say it is a good time to pay more attention to it, making it more important in your life. 

I wish I had a magic wand, but I don’t. If it is not too late, I want to tell you about the Six Easy Steps To Coping. Only kidding, but if you have read all this, you are alive and that ain’t half bad. Right?

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