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Stating the unpleasant obvious
in a manner told to be understood constructively
and then believing, consequently,
how it CAN be constructively believed. |
Everyone Who Votes Young, Is! by Alfred Lehmberg
Seems the kids turned out in droves in 2022 to rescue our Democracy from bigoted Nazis, rich-old (and self-identifying!) white men, and the otherwise entirely untoward fascist MAGA imbeciles and earnest deplorables, eh? Yeah, "half" of America is dumb as a bag of broken hammers ever voting against its own best interests, and while these broken souls may be deserving of some civil rights, some common respect, and some small consideration, that cannot include putting them in charge of anything, ever! That right has been well and truly abdicated! Stupid. Has had. It's run!
No? Check Congress for the comedy stylings of a youth-betraying "Lala Bobo" & "Empty G," just to start! Remains, real victory was snatched from the jaws of "unblinking betrayal" in 2020, as is highly unusual, from the sexually bigoted, fulsomely fascist, and wholly psychotic "right"! No lipstick for pigs!
...One wonders in speculations ahead if it won't be the kids who stand as the ones to actually "bring the efficacious saucers down"! Well, them and our Black women! Such is the irony that this nation would be a true fascist hell, but for them! Yes! We'll go there. Truth shall not be knowingly denied! End of this digression.
Astonishingly, to continue, but not ignoring the "silver lining" for the massive "clouds" looming, it seems like it could still be a great time to be alive... to this citizen, at any rate, as this still well-privileged lower middle-class crow flies with some savings, a military pension, and Social Security. Sincerely, couldn't this still be a time of huge potential for a great time, for most of us, one must realize... and must be in a period of general wealth like there has NEVER been... and on the cusp of a true first-category civilization, OURS if our "reach" can but equal our "grasp" ...and we aspire to that! If we tax billionaires from all existence! ...Maybe a too well-maligned George Soros could be absolved...
...With NO thanks, and this writer repeats "NO Thanks" to that rabid and authoritarian "right" only celebrating the sociopathic individual at the clear expense of a well-abused aggregate society, or? Yes... we shall entertain some MAGA talking points here, "points" unable to withstand the smallest honest scrutiny, but... that alleged antithesis of a rabid right and showcased as even remotely legitimate in a legacy media sellin' reverse mortgages and boner pills! This:
We present the, at this point, impossibly rare ANTIFA (who only comes out to celebrate when fascists come out to celebrate it must be noted!) or, that so-called "anarchist" (?) "left," of myth and MAGA manufacture... whoever these persons are (brown, green, or purple M&Ms presumably!), but bogeymen of some mythic left-wing socialist/communist "conspiracy" extremists of errant right-wing conjecture... entirely GOP manufactured to divide and confuse... all these, none-the-less, "leftists," somehow persecuting the individual on the societal stake for the aggregate—but not helping to cop to the new reality? Blame on both sides? Uh-uh. NO!
Sorry! None of that can exist in any dimensional existentiality in a constructive and sensible manner! It never has! No. There is but one side of sane, sentient, and sensibly secular persons... and then... there is the psychotic, senseless, and toxically insensible sectarian, the other side. That's the choice sans the smallest of minuscule hyperboles.
What is the new reality required of needs and for cause? It is this. It is that "both-sides," blamed, patient reader, is a craven lie of but ONE side! The rabid side. See, Hitler was... wrong. Indiana Jones, Captain America, and every good guy in Star Wars cannot be in arrears.
Truly, there is but ONE sentient side... and THAT "side's" mawkish antithesis? Prepare yourself, reader! Bald and unblinking truth follows! THAT "side" is but a fulminating people-cancer of political hypocrisy, color supremacy, reptilian corpocracy, social mendacity, institutional bigotry, glaring incompetency, fascistic autocracy, toxic misogyny, and irreligious apostasy! We'd mentioned lipstick and pigs! No. The MAGA GOP is a scurvy warren of foreign and domestic enemies, enemies hardwired to senseless violence as baseless as it is destructive! Why, these rabid cultists even want a fascistic KING with the same divine rights of old... that bane of the Constitutional Framers!! These are the good guys?! We digress!
More societal reality? Well, prepare for a hard turn. The "child" is the "parent" to the "adult"! That's gonna be true at all levels and indices, and a fact known for many thousands of years!
Cutting to the chase? We start to treat the kids as we would individually be treated, ourselves! To start! We are not doing that! This writer taught for a time in what passes for Public schools in America, and knows.
Consider the current teacher shortage! This puts us off to a disparaged start in sub-standard schools this citizen has actually attempted to teach in, drawing righteous societal blood right off the proverbial bat! The writer has experienced that of which he speaks!
Those children on the cutting edge of this... "experience"? Discover that with regards to their number and furiously unthinking production of same—less numerical humanity may be assuredly more! For Christ's sake, humanity! Put an f'n sock on it! Humanity does not have to be a cancer on this planet, too.
Lastly, understand that their world is more vital to them than is your world. Their perception is the reality! We can improve that which is perceived! "School" is the best place to start. The sectarian can have no part in this State function where the secular must hold sway... frankly, because... at this point? The sectarian teaches only scienceless division and baseless hatred.
Lipstick. Pigs.
Pre-forming first impressions about young human beings won't respect your inability to make a good one yourself or mistake another one. One can only be genuine! There's no profit in the reflexive ridicule of their nascent and naive inexperiences. To them, passion burns hotter, if not brighter, than your own...
Their world is filled with singular challenges, imminent threats, and anxious priorities we have forgotten, or repressed, as abused (so distracted) adults. Evolving Adults aspiring to a certain "non-distraction," we can discover that even as all things known can be new again (!!!), we achieve but a fraction of what first-time experiencers experience, or make, of their first encounter with their reality!
"First" encounters with that initial "felt presence of the moment." Delicious! Then, it's not about you. It's about them because they're the ones coming up. That's going to be hard to remember when you really believe you have something to tell them... ya gotta have a solid "why" and you have to have a genuine way to transfer that.
See, it's up to us to provide the bridge and relevance to them... a bridge to our presently very contrived, mal-defined, and very situational "adult" reality... whatever the hell that is! Though...We can MODEL a more sane and sentient reality, ... and the aforementioned "separation of Church and State" guarantees the rights and efficacious QUALITIES of each!
Secular State. Sectarian Church. Ne'er the twain to intercourse or it's madness and misogyny! Where has it, NOT?!
Too, about our largely psychotic realities imposed on our youth, ours is a situation t'would repel them if they only knew, and resent upon finding out! They have suspicions! This person, did! Their confirmation was an astonishment to this writer suddenly understanding why the revolution first starts on the college campus... cited truth is freeing...
Ous easy mendacity and dissonant hypocrisy repels the informed... us, now, when we're forced to remember... it did this writer... unencumbered, now, by that "cowl of cognitive dissonance" self-imposed... or in other words, rejected: convenient rationalizations required to buffer us from the truths we would deny... god, but we have sucked as a species... and so then must seem to suck into the foreseeable future?
There are
consequences for groking the primary histories (first exposed to this retired soldier at the
Defense Race Relations Institute in 1972) of things learned upon returning late in life to an accredited university in
serious pursuit of a quality teaching credential.
Tilt!
...But that's our problem, a problem withering away into the startlingly obvious when confronted at last by the generic, real-time, and non-genuflecting "genuine," eh? You know, "reality" that curls your short hair! That's where the kids are, eh? ...And how can we expect them to reach out willingly to our lurid prosecutions, especially currently, of our "adult" distractions, hypocrisies, mendaciousnesses, dissatisfactions, hatreds, inefficiencies, unnecessary obsolescences, and even cultural betrayals? How, indeed!
For the mercurial reader, then, consider this an "absence-of-love" poem composed in the under-appreciated traditions of one Theodore Sturgeon. ...Sire once or not at all... give it back! Siring, again the writer asks, "do we do our kids a favor to turn them into us?"
Though, leave us not retreat too reflexively into those wounded "frowny pouties," pouties facilitating those seemingly obligatory cheap-shot recriminations of some stupid wounded backlash. ROFL! Let us look, instead, into a MIRROR for that first assumption of blame... or the "reason" for that first "thrown stone." First? Do, as one would be done.
Admitted! None of us has the deadlock nut on the aggregate craziness, and one performs a public disservice, one can presume, to suggest that one does, eh? We're, all of us, grains of sand on a backwater beach concerning adjacent entelechies and their view of things, perhaps: a view reflected fractally across a vast range of various universal entelechies... if speciated self-awareness recapitulates in the same fractal expression of, seemingly, everything else... anyway! Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny everywhere else, after all... right? Another fractal expression...
Still, one "grain of sand" on the backwater, as mentioned above, "beach" only presumes to instruct another, eh? The late Terence McKenna nailed it. One must aspire to be their own Guru, and should be where one can winnow that out... or what's the point? Is it true? Is it real? Does it ascend? Does it find that greater darkness out of which our more constructive novelties are snatched or winnowed?
...Any and all expressed opprobrium, of course, goes to your garden variety Shermer-smirker or hypo-literate, if rabidly homocentric, faux-skeptical klasskurtxian skeptibunky [tm]. These know who they are, don't get it, and we don't care. These can pack sand and broken glass passed a prolapsing pore, eh?
To close with the poetic:
MAGA is abject regression,
has codified its glad repressions
—then abrogating all progression—
provides for needless deep depressions!
There! There's your latest from the responsible void, aspiring to the genuine and undoing entropy where one can!
ÆL
