Venting

Is it me or did the mood change with the weather? Is everyone else feeling a little squashed by life? Not wanting to make plans to do anything because it’s suddenly too hot and it costs too much to get anywhere. I don’t want to drive anywhere…not even to a lake to cool down because it’s going to cost me nearly $100 to fill up my tank…and I already fill up 3 x week for my job and the weekend. Having fun isn’t fun anymore. I would rather just become a lethargic potato hogging the couch and a nap sounds perfect. Work is stressful. My response, be like a clam and just shut it down. Close the lid, stay inside and forget the world as it is.

It’s a mess. I am not a political person and I have avoided the news for years in the past because it really gets me down. Lately I can’t avoid the news and when I see it it’s just a bunch of censored crap and I wonder…did I move to Russia? Is anyone else aware of what is going on with our “reporters”? Why are we no longer a nation with a border crises that is literally being ignored. Drugs abound with people shooting up in the street. Automatic gun fire is going off in the city of Denver. The cops literally aren’t allowed to stop crime or enforce laws…because they no longer matter. Want something!?! Just take it! The rhetoric is insain, literally insain…no one can think anymore. Critical thinking has gone out the window and people are brainless zombies who literally can’t form an argument because they are no longer taught to form sentences, reading and writing aren’t important, you don’t even need to do it in order to graduate! Go to college, sure you can! You don’t have to have skills to get a degree, just claim victim and you’re a shoe in! Have no where to live? Don’t worry you can camp on someone else’s lawn, have a fire in your tent with a can of propane right next to the fire and no one will make you put it out (it’s only dangerous if you have a permanent address and pay taxes to have a fire pit in your yard). Want to go out to dinner? Ok, but you have to be willing to spend at least $100 for two people with the kitchen fees that are added because of inflation and living wages, and you have to be willing to wait longer for service because no one is working and everyone is short staffed. Want to own a gun or learn how to shoot one? Oh be ready for people to hate you and assume that means you approve of innocent people being shot down in schools because guns are evil and thus you are now evil too…not the criminal who lost his mind and did a bad thing. Mad about gas prices? Simple fix, drop 65k on an electric vehicle, then you can also save the world from Armageddon climate change (never mind how your electric vehicle is built using lithium batteries that die and have no second life purpose but rotting in some junk yard, along with the car. And while you’re at it where exactly does lithium come from and how do you get it?) Don’t worry…you are still totally saving the world! Gas is bad. Green is good. But how do you pay for it? It’s not 100% replaceable.

This idea that everything is black or white. Binary options with easy solutions. (with two sentences labeled as racist and bigoted instead of modifiers to describe, and a noun simply meaning “plural, a whole composed of two. Mathematics”) You quote the script, you sing the jiggle, we all drink the cool aide and nothing is fixed. The only change is that two sentences instead of describing a picture become racist and bigoted. What happened to conversation? To talking through issues because your confused and need more information. No one talks. Everyone yells. Anger abounds and blood pressure rockets. Words are screamed or avoided and suddenly friends are no longer called as lines in the sand create barriers to connection. Where is the grey? Does anyone else live here on earth? Where nothing is simple and everything has multiple views…and complications? That was why we had 2 parties. One to check another to keep the course straight ahead working for the good of the people…the nation that votes for it’s elected. We have all gone soft and have lost our direction. What direction are we heading in? From where I sit it doesn’t spell democracy. Guess we are all slowly becoming illiterate.