Only Humans... Why would you believe anything else?

I’ve been on this planet for a while now and it didn’t take long for me to notice that all humans are very similar. Male, female, black, white all cultures and all the little segments we’ve made up want pretty much the same stuff.

Now, inside all the little compartments we created there are aberrations, some feel small some feel big, some feel different, for the most part, these things are affects of our minds things we made up due mostly to the negative way we have built our little societies.

If you find it hard to believe that we are all basically the same I direct you to all of human history. 

All cultures and societies have suffered through the same issues… lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy & pride. 

Yes, that old biscuit! 

Any combination of these seven,  (let us not call them sins, in this present age they are more like states of being ) can lead a person to believe that they are more than common and feeling more than common it’s a short walk from there to believing that the right to dictate is yours! 

Maybe you start to think the right is God-given or some perceived genetic superiority, in either case, you’d be wrong but you would still be part of a very large group of deluded sock puppets. 

I may add some of whom came very close to killing us all.

Now anyone that knows me knows that I have a long-held personal theory that one of the major problems with Earth’s human population is bad definitions we constantly conflate success with money, love with passion, truth with justice and so on and so on.

I think that America’s set of bad definitions comes from the ever-growing level of ignorance in the society, ignorance and a double helping of both hubris and malice mix that up in a big bowl with the American superpower of rationalization and you get halfway to the dystopian nightmare we are currently building.

The simple fact is that as much as we say we love freedom and often chuckle at the hijinks of the countries that have somehow held on to their royals we still have the desire to raise some to a level from which they can easily look down on us, rule us. 

How does that help us?

Why would we do something that is so counter to our stated goals?

A country not held together by our similarities but by our differences is what we are supposed to be building, not concerned that we are not there and may never be but even with that knowledge, we keep working on it anyway.

This is a period of time where America & the world is going to be forced to face and reconcile our long-held set of bad definitions the truth is we have been living a lie for so long that it was inevitable that we’d come to the place where we could no longer see the truth, and that has made easy victims to tribalism & conmen.

We do say we want freedom, truth, justice but the simple things we must do as a people to achieve these things are apparently too hard an ask. Even at the risk of the loss of freedom we refuse to come together to defeat what we all know is evil, instead we revert to our tribes in the hopes that somehow we will be somehow spared the results of our ignorance by clinging to our religion, righteousness, intelligence or the foolish idea that “someone else” will come along and fix it all.

Is freedom just too hard for modern humans?

Are we better off being dictated to and made to stand in line until our time comes to leap into the gaping maw of the salivating machine we have built and now must be fed?

Of course not but the path we are on leads only to 90% of us living on the wrong side of a barbed wire fence.

Trump the great emancipator!?!

How Trump may free us!

I feel the need to repeat a phrase that is all the rage in the Trump Error … “These are strange and unprecedented times!” but it’s not ALL bad…
Actually, it is pretty bad but likely not fatal It seems with each rising sun we do discover something new about who and what we are and that's some kind of growth and growth is good … right?
Now we can spend days sorting through who insulted who or which President is not suited to the office and such but instead, I’d like to spend some time on some of the positive things he’s done for us … this may be a very short piece.
While some Presidents bring new words, phrases, and ideas into the American consciousness, “The buck stops here!”, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself!” and our Trump’s “you can grab em’ by the pussy!”

Yes, we have Trump to thank for opening the door and admitting “Pussy” into the popular lexicon as well as “Bigly” and many other newly created words.
With new boundaries being destroyed on a daily basis we are all being freed, freed from the restrictions of polite societal conventions & mores & critical thought… hell, at this point we can pretty much consider ourselves freed from all types of thought.

What a gift!

Let’s examine just what gifts such as these might do for us all, besides the obvious effect of giving some the freehand they have long awaited, freedom to offend and make America great again.
Freedom to put liberals, people of color & women right back at the bottom of the heap the way they probably think God intended.

The long-maligned white men of this world can once again grab the wheel and continue running the world into the ditch but not ALL white men, even the Trumpians can see that it is the select few that will hold the power and as for the rest?

Well… They’ll make great pets?

The Trump plan, as it always is with despotic rulers only acknowledges money & power but also as it always is, this plan will never take into consideration the considerable power of the resistance, the power of history the power of the people.

Society is moving beyond the system that kept the balance by issuing small crumbs of power and regional influence to the surf class and as we move beyond that system we will have to build a new one hopefully one that better serves us.
I know we have dared to dream of a better more equitable future many times but it does fit well into the ironic nature of existence that our darkest President may usher in a new age of light & enlightenment.

How can I say this?

I guess I can because I still remain hopeful because I want to believe that by staring into the dark of the abyss we may be able to fully appreciate the light and that appreciation may steel us to the task of bringing more light to our lives.

Don't let the door hit ya : What happens after?

There’s a lot of talk in the past few days about the last days of Trump some dream of impeachment others of lengthy jail time some sort of vengeance for Trump and the Republican party bringing us so close to the edge.

I don’t know if any of that will happen or that they will suffer any repercussions at all what I do know is that it’s gonna take a lot of fixin’ to undo what has been done in Trump's short reign. The tax Bill alone will scar America for years to come.

So… who goes and who stays? I for one am not ready for President Pence and the right wing, Bible-thumping madness that could come with that option, nor could I stand Ryan, no… that’s too much to bear!

While the future is concerning it could be much worse, if they were better at rigging the system, lucky for us it is highly unlikely that they have an after plan the whole thing has a flukey feeling. Like at some point ( probably at the very beginning ) it all got out of control, that will happen when you have a group that trades in hate it was only a matter of time before they turned on themselves.

They have exposed ( at least to white people ) the horrible underbelly of America while I do believe that there are more American’s that can now see the road to truth & justice than there were at the beginning of this political Nantucket sleigh ride but are there enough?
Will the changes that the left has to make be permanent?
Will Black Live actually begin to matter?
Will women finally get into the room?

Will we actually address what has and is being done to women since the dawn of time?
I cant say for sure, this lesson stung like touching a hot stove to be sure but you gotta admit we are not great at learning lessons if we were the last year would never have happened but it did Blanche, But it did!

This year will leave us changed and forever but now that we have seen the horrors the republican party is happy to inflict upon this country and the nasty face of racism & sexism when they feel emboldened what will we do?

Believe me, no one is happier to see the end of Trump however if we become too transfixed with correcting the Trump Error or the job of fixing it all we may lose sight of what we need to do to make the country fair for all of us.