Words and phrases once rarely heard now common currency.
‘Unprecedented’ sums up the cascading varieties of disbelief that many feel when looking at the state of the human world.
False flags, false news, misinformation, disinformation, beyond belief, narrative, propaganda.
Begs the question – who is running the show?
I don’t know but ‘they’ couldn’t do a worse job if they tried.
Democracies flounder and founder – a ship of state taking water and near the rocks, the captain unsure and startled, unable to act.
‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie’ is the silent scream headline, clickbait, look over here, look over there distraction – no wonder mental health is a major issue.
Let’s not forget conspiracy theories on this remembrance day.
‘Shared values.’ …. What shared values? Corruption as a way of life?
Very still, early morning cool Spring day. Much to do in the garden.
Utter disbelief elsewhere.
Ah – feel much better now. A few days pass, my hands are deep in the soil planting summer flowers. My back will ache by mid afternoon but much less so than a year ago regardless of compressed discs. Hands and knees, stretching in the garden does wonders.
Auroras are seen in the sky, marvellous to behold. The news is full of ‘How rare it is to witness this sight’ without mentioning Earth’s weakening magnetic field, tied, of course, to the movement of the magnetic poles, another major item not mentioned in climate change talk.
It's not as though these things are hidden so is it wilful negligence, dumb ignorance or … who knows what that prevents salient facts from being heard by those who make the policies.
Meanwhile Donald Trump embraces the phrase ‘Doubling down’, a gambling phrase which enters popular usage when generations have previously used the analogy of ‘Chess match’ when referring to world politics. Trump is an empty vessel constantly refilling himself with flattery, acting on whim and as an Emperor in all but name.
Sadly the whole of the American political system is as corrupt as China’s – all theatre but no substance – a ‘tofu dreg’ edifice.
It’s a vast Universe, I remind myself.
Alan Watts comes to mind, a remarkable man, speaks with clarity.