Talking points
Generation IT or is America just a huge Comedy Central
Myth busters are not welcome on the table of glorified self gradation. Myths weave their lore into the fabric of society becoming self propelled mantras of denial. The wave of irony washes over the heap of sheep with pre digested sanity to exorcize myth busting for a generation of laughing stock lead by the talking points and memos by the most influencal host of the new tease party.
National anthems reverberate in the tissue chamber of our collective. Singing in togetherness at the National Mall is a powerful symbolism reminding us that this country is built on shopping our way out of any depression. The mall is the monument in our land of the free the freedom shop until the enemy drops.
The event to restore sanity in itself is an insane enterprise in a world of insane politics. A rally needs intellectual coherence so they say and a speaker with aloud voice back upped by a few famous headliners and a crowd that likes to play prey to smarmy slogans of unity.
Diversity is the platform for tea kettle ideologies brewed together under the common denominator the omnipresent enemy the other the one we have to unify with through our ability for tolerance.
I am conscientiously object to such goading and I can’t deny the willingness to be pandered too through evocation of the fear of the other.
The multitudes united for the reason of reasonableness. Just call it sanity or a competition like the burning of books for the cause of righteousness because everyone claims to be the right one the one with influence over God for the masses will. Silliness reigns, optimism connects a peaceful populous following bin the footsteps of historical rally’s singing songs titled “ you are not alone” by Mavis Staples.
Deep fried metaphors of nationalism are served with freedom fries and a dollop of self aggrandizing grandstanding to ask everyone belonging to the greatest nation on earth to at least get along at least to care about each other because that is really what it means to be part of the greatest nation because that is really all we have.
The phrases fall from the stage like ripe fruits offered to a hungry for answers mass of multi-cultural faces lapping up the juicy bits of verbiage like manna “ the times are hard but it is not the end of times” booms like a sonic wave from the front row all the way back to the last seat the man standing in a crowd of one.
The speaker hits all the key notes to synchronize the masses proclaiming that even he is not sure what it all means and why they all have come. No secret truths are revealed but t-shirts will be available to commemorate this somewhat historical non-event.
So what is there to hear if you have ears to hear. Maybe that “ hating takes effort but love comes natural” or that accumulating a crowd doesn’t make a rally or to see everyone’s humanity is fundamental to understand ones own.
We already live together on a foundation of understanding and tolerance every day we are reminded by the so elevated hero of the moment and because reason means compromise we have to learn to accept our differences. This is you and me making life happening building the message of the future as we go a future everyone deserves to experience in a peace full manner without being harassed from a bully pulpit.
Analyze this moment to remember so the next moment will present a greater understanding of the moment before. We are here because we have life and we can preserve it or give it and share it which leads to the sanity of the individual and the health of a culture.
If we let grace guide us and implicate the wisdom that slumbers in our hearts we all can live at the place where faces dare to smile and nobody needs to cry out in pain or anger but knows that if you help me I will take care of you too. That is the place we all can agree on to call sanity.
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