Go Watch TV

It has been suggested on more than one occasion that the most important step is in the formulation. That precious drop in eternity’s bucket where our analysis, introspection, consideration and speculation meet with our motivation, reality, character, meaning and need. When all of that collides the bucket overfloweth.

The three part process of deep analysis, consideration and formulation of a plan, and its execution is the process by which we accomplish great things. Any idea of merit first passes through this gauntlet. If we can’t dedicate the time necessary to ‘see’ the project in its entirety clearly, be prepared to address its challenge, cost and benefits, and then find the courage and meaning to carry it out, we might as well go watch TV. Let somebody else take charge of our lives and lament the fact that everything is so fucked up while draining another 12 ounces of ale.

This means, dear friends, that even the most inconsequential and trivial actions all wash past this concentrated effort. Look at it (whatever it is), consider it thoroughly and as objectively as you can, and then create a plan of action, a response that satisfies your highest understanding and is a truth you are willing to take a bullet for.

As we age up it becomes more and more apparent that this is all there is. We must stand for something and we must make that stand as if it is our last. Because it very well could be.

I refuse to surrender to the capitalistic consumerism that preaches of big screens and mobile devices, of new cars and more of everything. I will not idly stand by and watch the greedy and powerful empower their sponsors even further with hateful, discriminatory and racially profiled legislation and fascist rhetoric. I will not give in to hate and will never succumb to fear-based propaganda. I will speak up, speak out and speak my truth.

I implore you to do as well. We are at a critical point in the history of our nation. We are under attack. Our current administration, the """leaders""" we (I use the pronoun with extreme prejudice) ‘elected’ are a  cabal of criminals solely intent on furthering their power (money) and maintaining the status quo of white supremacy as long as possible. This is a consortium of spineless hypocrites who will lie, steal, cheat and rob you of everything including your dignity and identity. Once they have taken your job, your family and your home, they will come for your spirit and soul as they conveniently provide others even worse off as those to blame for your ‘failures’.

Take a close look at this. It is happening under our very noses and on our watch. If you are so shallow that ‘the economy’ is worth the pain, suffering and discrimination of half of America, you need to re-access your morality and values. If you claim to be a Christian as this evil unfolds, I am sad to say that you have been duped. If you accept the lies and propaganda relentlessly gaslighting you as a means to an end, you need to re-consider the myth of your entitlement and the errors of your bigotry and racism.

Failing that, if you still feel that God somehow created a superior race and that the poor should feed the rich and that all men are created equal (but some more equal than others) and that all this hate and fear is necessary for the draining of the swamp, please do me a favor, shut the fuck up and go watch TV.