As I observe the miscellaneous ramblings over recent election results I’ve been humored by one particularly interesting observation and troubled by another: First, there is the amazing number of media and political curds who are absolutely certain about topics they clearly no nothing about. One topic, in particularly, being the practice of “calling” an election outcome long before the vote counts are certified or before the presentation of the Electoral College to the U.S. Congress. For those who may be paying attention it’s most likely that they’ve already accepted the storyline meanwhile, for those who aren’t, don’t or won’t it likely doesn’t matter either way. The second, not so much an observation as it is an event or inquiry, has been the number of folks who’ve started their solicitation with something along the lines of the following: “Well, I’ll bet your just tickled pink with the outcome of the election! I know how much you loved Trump and despised President Elect Biden. But I think it’s good for the Nation to be, finally, headed in the right direction.” Hmmm! A great, too many assumptions being made in this rather dystopian presumption wrapped in rather adolescent tortilla attempting to appear urbane. At best it’s a didactic intrusion upon an otherwise rational mind but then this type of an assault is exactly what happens to a culture having surrendered to the proven ideocracy of illusion but then again, as I’ve said, who’s paying attention to the details. Read more...
