“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”/Erich Fromm…….
Back in a lifetime, for me 7 decades of a lifetime, this nation decided that certain President should be honored with a holiday to celebrate the day of their birth. We had when only black and white television was our vision to the world, and a human being, actually changing channels, raising or lowering the volume rather than a remote or just a mere, “Siri change the channel.” Our 24-hour bombardment of news could be found during the waking hours of reading encyclopedia’s and or The Farmer’s Almanacs. At the movies, or on the TV, most characters were always white, the good guys, if they were white and if bad, they were usually loan sharks, tattooed looking longshoremen, or women of the night, I remember them being referred to as hussies. If you were of dark skin color, you were identified as (the names throughout those decades rambled from) Negro to Colored, to African American to Black, or if your skin tone was of a lighter sepia perhaps you were a Puerto Rican or Mexican, rarely did the words Hispanic or Latin seem to be relevant. And if your eyes were slanted in shapes unlike most Caucasian’s all of you were Orientals. Jews, back in the day were “Christ Killers/Moneylenders, and always played the bad guy in the movies. Queer was the description of the LGBTQ community, and if anyone dared film a movie or produce a TV show, the Queer character was even a more insidious villain than any Jew of Colored person, and no matter what one of those three demographics would commit suicide or be shot/stabbed/thrown from a bridge right before the END, floating on the screen.
“For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.”/Noam Chomsky………
Today, we have combined our Past Important President's birthdays into one holiday calling it President’s Day. Today, as the presidency has evolved or perhaps de-evolved, we are witnessing a turning point in the prominence, prestige, professionalism, and patriotism of the Guy (so far no women permitted,) who if truth be told was hacked into office by foreign interference/an asserted and intended dismissal of democratic voting rules/ and a population for whom selfish spite takes precedence over the welfare of others. Hillary, at least for me was correct in stating “It takes a Village!”
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”/Voltaire…….
I am confused, concerned, and absolutely perplexed at the ability of the hyperbole and hypocrisy, the sheer sinfulness of the abuse of common sense, the selfish machinations, and manipulation of mere mortals to mold my life THIS life here and now into something where truth is a consequence, and consequences seem to deny that truth matters at all. The Double Standard for me is like a fourth or fifth or sixth dimension and I dread the destiny it might from which it seems to delight!
