…that those who are unabashedly fervent in their support of religion and the police are those who believe others and themselves lack a moral compass to do the right thing without threat of punishment from the Heavenly Sky Father or by the muzzle of a weapon.
Dear Weirdos
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Nobody wants your 10 year old, used, ratty, rained on, left out on the edge of your driveway raccoon love nest of a mattress. Even if it is free.
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Thank you for the $10 discount off of the MSRP on the kitchen appliance used only “a handful of times” over the last 7 years.
Reconfiguration
I am trying to give up swearing. It is proving to be difficult. Even more difficult is attempting to give up being sarcastic — and whatever derivative or similar humor that’s in the same vein.
Sarcasm is too expensive an activity to engage in for me personally, and frankly, the same goes for the United States. The ability to be able to detect the nuance of that kind of humor is absent in most. Certainly part of it due to mere naivete. More alarmingly the line between what is reasonable and what is absurd is all but gone. The mundane is unbelievable, and the norm is irrationality. Satire requires a common reference point, and that reference point is so divergent among everyone, that it renders satire irrelevant. A practical example is The Onion. With an uncomfortable amount of regularity, it is cited as an actual news source. The insidious corollary to that is The Onion also seems to accurately predict cultural shifts towards the absurd. Or it reports actual news in a screamingly satirical tone. Sigh.
Slow Motion Train Wreck
It’s easy to be glib about things we feel we cannot affect. Even moreso when social media (and mainstream media, too) encourages you to be the most 15-seconds-famous as you can be. Entertainment is valued above purposefulness.
We are living in history. But we cannot be passive observers that the neverending buffet of media teaches us to be.
Fuel your purpose with love, not hate. Be resolute, but always introspective.
TwEeTeR
