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A Dangerous Sign of our Error-Free Administration

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There has been an inability for Trump and his Administration to admit any fault to an extent that has gone beyond bizarre.  There have been others that have presented themselves in a similar manner, I dare to invoke Godwins law and mention Hitler.

We see Trumps narcissism on full display through his inability to admit fault on so many occasions, constantly doubling down on ridiculous notions, falsehoods, conspiracy theories and flat out stupidity in the face of nation that over half of its citizens know better, it becomes vicariously embarrassing to witness.

What is extremely odd to me, is to what lengths Trump, his administration, the propaganda machine, and subsequently his supporters go to rationalize every wrong move by Trump in an attempt to skew truth and reason to make it look “good”.  It is far beyond preposterous on many occasions to do so.  With reports coming out that the administration was in turmoil, Trump states proudly his administration is “A fine tuned machine”, a joke that reverberates today to all but those not emotionally invested in what has became glaringly obvious, this political cult.  Today, among one of the most trivial matters when Trump mistakenly tweeted “covfefe”, Sean Spicer refused to admit it was in error and that it was a word known to a small circle of people.  When asked what it meant, Spicer ignored the question and moved on to another.   What was a funny, light hearted error has become a sign of something dangerous, of something sinister.

This sign of a dangerous inability for the cult to admit any error, mistakes or wrongdoing was there all along.  It has gained steam in recent weeks, refusing to admit that Trumps trip overseas was anything but glorious and a massive success,  despite alienating some of our historically and most prevalent key allies further.  There was no admitting error in Trumps call for a Muslim ban, instead threatening the court to see them in court.  The list goes on and on.

Just as disturbingly, Trump’s “White House Director of Strategic Communications”, Hope Hicks, released this:

“President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him,” the statement said. “He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000. He has built great relationships throughout his life and treats everyone with respect. He is brilliant with a great sense of humor . . . and an amazing ability to make people feel special and aspire to be more than even they thought possible.”

A picture that captures this sentiment in my mind:

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Of course, this whole idea of Trump being positive, magnetic and his unparalleled ability to communicate is laughable.  What we have here is an inability to admit flaws, to present their savior in an infallible light.  What is amazing, is that this sentiment trickles down to every day Trump supporters.  Anyone engaging with some negative commentary on Trump in an open forum online will know what I am referring to.  There is no admitting Trump and team is wrong, there, laying in wait is a constant swarm of frothy supporters who wish to rationalize every wrong to a right.  I’m sure a psychological phenomenon ought to be attributed to such mass behavior and today we are living in a golden age for political scientists and psychologists to take to the helm to identify and describe this absolutely queer behavior.  Of course, not every Trump supporter will react in this manner either, but you can be sure there are many who do.

It seems part of this inability to fess up to error to might be do the immense pressure that the White House and their supporters who are emotionally invested in this political cult.  The emotional investment into the most disastrous presidency we have ever witnessed, and I don’t mean this lightly.  There is not one iota of hyperbole here when I write.  The danger of not admitting error, the likeness of that quality to Hitler, the massive push of the right wing to go so far right anything that resembles actual news and fact becomes is a liberal conspiracy.  The massive amount of propaganda that is being dispersed daily, which really ramped up at the onset of the Obama administration and Social media, the wracking of Trump and supporters minds to be reduced to delusional conspiracy theories to justify why their leader is infallible and the victim of a media onslaught.    It is no wonder there are daily leakers blowing the whistle on this administration on a regular basis.

The administrations psychosomatic narrative, this amateur hour hustle that may have gotten Trump somewhere in shady Trump brand dealings, does not cut it when running a superpower. The population, aside from the deluded 30% or so that has been brainwashed by decades of propaganda,  can see through this madness yet they attempt it anyway.  Do they believe the lies and rationalizations themselves?  It is very possible.  It is very scary if they do.  They are on a path that the likes of was never seriously thought to occur in these United States.  A degenerative, fascist, damaging administration who’s impact will reverberate through time and history and not on the good side of it.

We can understand the truth here, we can analyze what’s happening and we can call a spade a spade, regardless of how bizarre and unbelievable it has become.  These are dangerous and interesting times and we the people need cogent explanations of just how reckless, delusional, brazen and perilous that this administration is.

Just who are the Patriots here?

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The absurdity of hijacking the term “patriot” by party loyalists is exposed when they see no problem with a foreign power interfering with our democratic processes. It’s ok for them, because it benefited their *party*, not the nation.

The slippery slope of turning a blind eye to that, the myopic idiocy of putting the party ahead of the nation is detrimental to the nation. Patriots are the last thing these people are. If a socialist totalitarian regime aided and interfered in the same way to instill a totalitarian socialist, they’d see it differently. But its too late for this disturbed demented political cult. They are not patriots, they are party loyalists and detrimental to the very fabric of what this country was founded on. Independence from foreign powers.

Trump experiences a Freudian Slip, ponders “obstruction” during speech today

Take a look at the 13:40 mark on the video below.  Trump , after he says “obstruct” he pauses and begins thinking..

It’s as if he’s thinking “What, what did I just say?”

A Freudian slip, it seems.

 

The Delusions of the Failed Right Wing.

The list of falsehoods and conspiracy theories Trump has purveyed is staggering. Trump’s reality is a delusion that is sustained by the rampant propaganda of bizarre right wing websites. Not only is Trump a victim of blatant propaganda, conspiracy theories and lies, he is a purveyor of it.

The delusions of the right wing and misunderstanding of reality is due to a lack of critical thinking and confirmation bias that runs rampant in an increasingly complex world.

It’s easy for non-thinking know nothings to misrepresent things you don’t understand them. They characterize and frame a straw-man representation, to argue against something ridiculous. This happens constantly, because thinking is very hard in a complex world. Science is beyond simple truths that water freezes at 32 degrees, its beyond what the average person can even fathom let along begin to understand.

So understand it they won’t, because science and knowledge of the world reduces the fiction of religion at a steady pace. Science doesn’t care what you believe.

As far as the delusions of the right wing, the rise of propagandistic social media and fake news has enraptured and enthralled Trump supporters, because they want to believe it. This causes them to have a conflict with reality. “Alternative facts” they claim, conspiracy theories to rationalize their idiotic perception of reality based on whatever their dimwitted cousin shares as a picture with 4 words on it.

So justifiably “true” news becomes “fake news”. Ignorance becomes strength. They are in too deep and these delusions that millions of illegals voted, that Obama tapped Trump tower, that Hillary sold Uranium to the Russians must persist for them, or their entire world view will become shattered. Psychology tells us the brain won’t allow that. The decay will be gradual. Until then, there will be serious damage to the United States of America and its institutions of knowledge and justice.

Wings for Mom

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I am not sure if I am able to do this, but I’m going to try, after all, Mom always said you don’t know unless you try.

This little light of mine, the strength that allows me to stand here now, that allows me to write and express this, is a gift Mom passed on to me, and I’m going to let it shine, to guide her safely and happily on her way home. This light of hers has been passed on to many, on to all of her children, we all have a little bit of her light, in all our unique ways and I know we’re going to make sure that light is wrapped in love and given to our children, and the children of our children. That’s going to be a lot of children.

While we are all saddened by Mom’s passing, the great thing is that today we can celebrate her life, which was really very interesting. She shined brightly through the end of it all being constantly selfless and always still wanting the best for her children, grandchildren and her large, loving family. She truly had a light within that shone even in the face of imminent death. Our final conversation was one not so much about her, she just had to turn it around and make it about me, making sure that I lived the best life she saw for me. Selfless and caring, motherly, and a fighter to the end.

I read a journal entry that Mom said her life was boring at some point, and she was ok with that. I believe she thought that only because she had a big imagination, a big powerful mind, that was capable of reaching for much more, and reach she did. While she may have been bored at points, she was most certainly not boring. When I told mom I was bored, she had quite the list for me to do. Read a book, stand on my head, draw, clean your room. Mom did something about her own boredom too. She was highly opinionated, multi-faceted, multi-talented, a defender of the true and righteous, a headstrong warrior against injustice, all backed by her love of Jesus and unconditional love of everyone. She was a forgiver and an angel. She loved St. Michael the archangel, and I feel she and him have a lot in common. Mom was disgusted often, which she said regularly, not only during her last few months of being tired and having difficulty getting around, but really throughout all the time I knew her.

She was disgusted by her perception of injustices and immorality of the world. We may or may not agree with what she stood for, I think we can all agree she fought for what she saw was good and holy and fought against all she saw as evil and immoral. A few of Mom’s folders in her email show some of her concerned subjects. Religion, terrorists, politics, horses, down syndrome. I find it so funny that a 74 year old Grandmother would have a folder for her emails that just was in regard to terrorist activity. Yes, she was unique and watchful, passionate about so many things as well.. Mom wanted a better life for all of us, not just her children, and that is what she fought for, for morality, for Jesus, for the betterment of mankind. She made her dent against her enemies and made me a proud son, for one. Even though I didn’t always agree with her, I could openly discuss things with her. I loved our conversations on politics and the world, nature, life, and everything.

She was a proud member of Eagle Forum, Birthright, the Hammond town council, and quite a bit of other organizations and causes. She really took a lot. She was after all, disgusted, fed up. It was all sickening. I understand this in her, she had such great empathy she could feel the pain she perceived in the world. Her medicine for that pain was her own beautiful mind and her drive to fix them.

How she affected us all, in her own little way, or in sometimes her big way, was not through her voice, which was somewhat quiet and some might say, even little, but through her actions and intent and meaning of words, her justice and fairness, unconditional love and the eyes to see what was right in the face of all that was wrong. The way she extinguished all her pain and anguish that she has endured, to come out a fighter.

Not only that, Mom nurtured my intelligence, my sense of awe and wonder, my curiosity, my love of storms, science, everything and anything.

She was a great writer, with beautiful elegant cursive, which was a reflection of who she was. Studious, self taught, she used to read every night. She read a lot, about politics and faith, her causes, stories of courage and honor. She subscribed to Readers Digest, read Ann Coulter and called in to political talk radio shows quite a bit, so much that she had some contacts of radio show hosts in her rolodex. She wrote so many letters to the editor, she ended up getting her own column a couple times in the Hammond Times, which you can see in her scrap book she left behind.

Mom was organized, she had so many things saved sometimes I think it might be because she knew she was forgetting things a lot. When you are interested in so many things it’s easy to forget, but she was smart enough to take precautions to remember. I love this in her, who she was, because she was a good person with good intentions, very capable and easy to underestimate, because she was humble, smart, and cautious, but not too cautious. She was somewhat introverted and I know I got that from her as well. I understand her to be always thinking and making sure things were “good”, as in moral.

Mom was a great artist and that never died in her. She was great at drawing faces, people, and horses, something that many find to be the most difficult, including me. I saw some of her drawings from this past year, and they looked like they did from over 30 years ago. I imagine her drawing, all alone one night, at her old age… If only I could’ve been outside looking in, watching her draw, seeing a sweet little smile come across her face when she knew she still had it, because knowing mom, she did just that.

Not only did she do all this, she raised or helped raise 6 children and treated the Markowski children as her own as well, caring for Janice in all the time she could, her loving unselfish way is something to challenge us all. Mom passed down to us so many good things, just in actions alone. And those things came back around, especially in her last few years. Her life was redeemed and made pleasant, exciting and comfortable by my lovely sisters, who took great effort to care for her in her dire time of need.

Every time I look up in the sky and see the stars, I think of Mom. She always looked at the stars, those stars up there are very special for her and me. And it’s something so little, to say, “look at the stars, they’re beautiful tonight”… but it became something so much more, forever more. The light of those stars for me represent her awe and wonder, her beautiful curiosity. I always have her in my mind when I look up at the starry night sky. That light of hers, penetrating through so those injustices almost as numerous as the stars themselves, was tested in fire for long enough, give her her wings, she earned them.

 

The Alt-Reich’s Attempt to Push Fascism as a Left Wing Trait

[image error]There have been attempts by right wingers recently to attempt to distance certain right wingers as fascist or certain fascists as right wingers. In turn, they are also looking to seek out that the left can be fascist too. One of which is Dennis Prager, a right wing talk show host that I listen to around lunch every day on Chicago’s AM 560 right wing talk radio station. Dennis has become increasingly alt-right since Trump’s nomination. In any case, it was just yesterday that Prager was parroting this same type of sentiment which seems to be passing around the right wing hive mind, in which independent thought has been obliterated long ago.

Fascism originated in the right wing government of Mussolini and perhaps was perfected in its conceptualization in Hitler’s Nazi Regime, which was also right wing. The interesting thing about what is currently going on in the intellectual realm is the attempt to put Hitler as a “Socialist” because the Nazi’s, after all, was dubbed the “National Socialist Party”. Dennis Prager mentioned this just yesterday on his radio station and it was utterly ridiculous. The Nazi’s were adept in their propaganda in naming themselves this, in order to garner votes, but they were anything but socialist. It was in name only. Hitler worked closely with CEO’s and corporations to get them on their side, as he needed the owners to get in line and as well as profit industrialized build up of the war machine to come, against the treaty of Versailles that prohibited their rearmament.The far left can similarly reach labor suppression through corruption and authoritarianism, as a result of an excess of power by the state which indirectly leads to authoritarianism due to what seems to be, human nature. I wouldn’t call this fascism, but left wing totalitarianism. Stalin was a totalitarian, not a fascist. He was on the left. Totalitarianism and fascism can be similar, but there was a specific reason fascism came about, as it was distinct from totalitarianism in its corporatism, nationalism, sexism, and often involved the use of slave labor.






























The fact that this discussion is occurring more recently with the advent of a more fascist authoritarian rise is evidence of not only the rise of a more fascist authoritarian movement in the world but evidence of the propaganda currently being dispersed among the population.

The politics are so polarizing that everything has become a political stance. With Trumps loudmouth virulent campaign that took aim at anyone and anything that wasn’t him or his classless ilk, the current supporters rally around a weird concept of free speech for the right to offend people. Perhaps when it goes further, it can be free speech to call people of certain races certain ethnic slurs. Not moderating it can be labeled “snowflake liberalism”. Letting people offend freely would be going towards the right, taking a political stance. Not letting people offend would move away from the right, taking a political stance.

It is my impression that the right is so far right though, that requesting normal civilized behavior, a normalcy for any regular public discussion, is now essentially attacked as a result in favor being able to blurt out deep seated prejudices that is commonly now known as “hate speech”.

The right is attempting to distance itself more so than ever before from fascism. Why? Because the mainstream right is closer to fascism than perhaps ever before, perhaps at least in the past 50 years.

The Fall, the Downward Spiral Continues…

“Pride comes before a fall”. We’ve certainly had our share of pride. You don’t hear about excitement for the United States and the future anymore. That was decades ago. It has been replaced by analysis of its decline, the end of an empire, predictions of doom and gloom. Countries like China stimulate discussion of growth and it’s rise of power, postulations about it overtaking as the premiere superpower in decades to come.

 


Of course, this is normal, its likely the United States has peaked. Just as Rome “sank into debauchery and dissipation as a result of great wealth and luxury”, we too see the effects of this. Crassness is certainly linked to debauchery in essence, however that is just the tip of the iceberg of a population filled with sloppy thinking slobs who forsake discipline and intellect in favor of hedonistic pleasures. Nearly 70% of adults are obese in the United States – certainly not simply because of genetics. Thug culture is glamorized, science scorned, all institutions that uphold the sanctity of discipline, intellectualism, knowledge, health and human services and technological advancement are all no longer trusted.


 


Corporations feeding propaganda to people who promote fake science, people that don’t even partake in actual science are righting “scientific articles” that in effect only reinforce the money making machines of oil companies. The dimwitted lap it up, defying all past common sense and past instances. Billionaires feeding lies to the people, to make more billions. This is what happens when the rich become too rich, the rich aren’t upholders of justice, truth, and light, and America has had its share of corporate and individual greed, ever growing, ever becoming more powerful to control and manipulate naive minds who care nothing more than getting a good buzz and talking about how “some nigger is comin for our guns so we better go get em before they ain’t available no more. “


 


 


The end is in sight, the decline of wisdom and virtue replaced by narcissism, crassness, slobbery. A major chunk of the nations values were built on a fraud of belief / religion. This crumbling of the religious structure is itself not detrimental to a disciplined, thinking, wise people, however the era of discipline has come and gone. What values to replace it? How will they know where to look? The culture has become corrosive, eroding into a competition to find out just how outrageous, grotesque and low we can go.


 


While we race to the bottom, there will be those of us who fight it tooth and nail, but a minority that seems to becoming even more of a minority cannot save a state such as this.

The Destruction of the Presidency

Trumps Presidency began with lies, by stating the crowd at the inauguration was the biggest ever. It likely will end in lies, the question is will he be impeached with the Russia saga currently ongoing and showing a deeper connection on a daily basis. There is a disinformation campaign put forth by far right wing pundits, such as “Susan Rice” currently in the news, where they are attempting to legitimize a Trump tweet in which Obama “wiretapped Trump tower”. Of course, the claim coming before the evidence and evidence being twisted to suit the narrative. A sign of a squirming white house that reeks of guilt.

Trump has been anti american in attacking directly every U.S. institution aside from the Christian religion, but his actions and his claim of being Christian is an indirect attack against the faith in which he promotes directly or indirectly essentially what can be seen as an anti Christian philosophy on nearly every action and word spoken, if abstracted an analyzed.

Aside from that, the Trump Presidency has been the worst presidency in the history of the United States in only just a few months. Damaging the United States irreparably. Here’s how:

-Over a dozen sexual assault allegations. Elected after this occurred. Judging by his “locker room” talk, many of these probably did happen. Sexual predators are now allowed into the white house. Rabid Right wingers will foam at the mouth yelling Bill Clinton, but he was impeached for that and likely would not have been elected if it came out before his election. Personal integrity has been destroyed as a prerequisite for the Presidency.

-Conning members of Trump University in which he has had to pay out 25 million dollars to settle lawsuits. This may not even be over yet. Allowing a verifiable con man in to the white house has destroyed the sanctity of the Presidency. Nothing of this scope has ever occurred before. Frothy rabid right wingers will deflect and claim Hillary Clinton was a con artist, or Obama, it is all nonsense compared to this.

-Hired a Quasi- nazi into the white house, Sebastian Gorka, as terror advisor. A member of Vitézi Rend – Never before have we had such a scenario. The integrity of the qualifications for this administration has been lowered to the depraved depths of humanity.

-Attacking the free press for factual reporting in regards to factual instances of the Russian saga while him and his administration bloviate nonsensical fake news stories. Is it planned, or are they ignorant? Bowling Green, Trump Tower was tapped, The Sweden incident.

-Day one Trump painted an abysmal picture of the United States, in which the economy is ravaged. This parrots his campaign in which Trump lied about the unemployment rate, spreading known disinformation on what the actual unemployment rate is. Trump accepts the employment rate a month into his presidency as it is actually a good number, but one he inherited from Obama.

– Has taken credit for “jobs, jobs jobs” that actually are rooted in the Obama administration, a dastardly method of getting the people to clamor for a half truths all in the name of inflating his ego and partisanship.

– Pretends to offer things that couldn’t possibly occur, such as “Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities.. this American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” Of course, this is propaganda, it is a lie, it will not stop, it has not stopped and speaking like this is bad for reality, the truth, and the integrity of the presidency as well as the United States.

-“We have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine… I’ve been on it for 15 times this year”. Trump’s lies know no bounds. Anything to present himself as the greatest thing since sliced bread. A disaster for the presidency, integrity and the United States to speak in this manner.

-The administration has actually promoted the products of the Trump Family on television. Aside from that, nepotism is in play. Trumps is profiting from the presidency far than his measly Presidential salary he donates. May as well turn the white house into QVC. A truly disgusting occurrence.

-Began a war with the media, something only Richard Nixon has stated behind closed doors. Publicly engaging the media in the manner Trump has against another American institution is telling of his issue he has with facts. Fake news is real news to Trump and his administration, real news is fake news. CNN has broken open some news stories that keeps pushing the Russia saga, and Trump is pushing the envelope further by feeding off the frothy rabid right wing base that paradoxically hates the media is doing nothing but damaging his reputation, the integrity of the United States, the office of the Presidency. Trump and this administration have made themselves to come to not having a distinction between themselves and pure propagandists on the level of Goebbels.

-Claims the opposite of what he actually is. “I’m a very big person when it comes to the environment. I have received awards on the environment”.

Another lie, – meanwhile Trump has put someone in charge of the EPA who wanted to destroy the EPA.

-Lies about creating more jobs than what actually occurred “This is on the keystone pipeline… A lot of jobs, 28,000 jobs. Great construction jobs” Actual numbers are 4,000. Meanwhile, they have used Canadian-Russian steel, reversing his pledge to have them use U.S. steel.

-“You had millions of people that now aren’t insured anymore” – Trump lies about Obama care.  Failed to “repeal and replace” Showed he does not understand anything about the situation to lead anywhere on health care reform. “Who knew healthcare was so complicated”

-Openly and brazenly (as usual) attempted to implement an obvious Muslim ban in which the judiciary struck down as unconstitutional twice, due to his and Guilianni’s open claims on what it was. His attitude and open talk promotes more divisiveness on the matter, while accomplishing nothing but failure.

-Falsely claimed 3 million illegals voted to soothe his ego about losing the popular vote. No evidence produced to date.

-Falsely claimed he won the election by a landslide. More propaganda pushing sentiment. A disaster of the presidency to spread lies on this level. Nothing is sacred anymore.

-Falsely claims the murder rate is on the rise, possibly to advance another narrative of “law and order” that is needed. A despicable being promoting more false information… indeed.

-Has yet to criticize Putin or Russia, tossed out the idea of lifting sanctions on Russia after the Crimea invasion. More and more bizarre ties coming out over possible collusion with Russia. Flynn, Manafort, all guilty. Blackstone coordinating a fishy offshore meeting in creating a back channel Putin Trump has came out in recent days. Meanwhile Trump claims its all fake news, every day, more real news comes out that pushes the ties closer and closer to possible collusion. Nothing on this scale has ever occurred before in the United States, truly damaging no matter what the outcome is as of this point.

-Stated “FBI Director Comey: fmr. DNI Clapper ‘right’ to say no evidence of collusion between Russia and Trump Campaign.” Apparently making people think comey said something else will make it all go away. His defensiveness in the manner resembles Nixon. A disaster in integrity.

-Has threatened our allies and spoken kind words with authoritarians. Completely anti-american in foreign policy.

-Attacked the judiciary for ruling against his executive orders. Completely anti american in understanding the U.S. government, has completely destroyed the sanctity of the presidency in regards to upholding the sanctity of the judicial branch. As such, has shown no respect for American institutions or rule of law. A complete disaster.

The Presidency and the administration has of now, no credibility. An unprecedented numbers of lies, half truths, misinformation campaigns, dispersion of blatant propaganda have destroyed the institution of the presidency. There’s not much lower we can go, aside from rounding up millions of any ethnic group and killing them or sending our soldiers off to die in some pointless war. Of course, some of his frothy supporters are already calling for it.

Memories

I have been taking a lot of time reflecting on my entire life, from my earliest memories upward. To reconnect with myself, to appreciate the longevity of my life so far, to appreciate all of the things I have experienced. It is a daunting and even time consuming task to remember, and I have been thinking about logging my memories in a chronological order, adding photos and notes, just for myself, to see if I can gain a new perspective, new insight on who I am. The task is going into the mundane, not the most important times or the most memorable things, the hard to reach memories.

Some of my most precious and some of the most uncomfortable memories are the ones in which you actually remember the way you felt at the time, the smells of your memory, the way you thought even, in turn, forgetting all the experiences after that point in time in order to go back to the frame of mind one had then.

It seems like a magical experience to bring to mind the frame of reference of those memories. Often we can remember something fairly easy, but taking the time to really analyze the memory, to remember deeper, to become immersed in the memory.

I recently remembered something I may rarely have previously ever remembered. Understanding memories may become memories of memories, I’m not quite sure if I remembered it before. But nonetheless the feeling of security, that all was right, at an age of 2 or 3, while my mother held me in her arms as I sat on her lap. Do you remember what it was like to be that age? To remember how you felt and thought, to immerse yourself in that feeling. The feeling of that moment, sitting there being held, is somewhat corrupted by what I know now. That being, hindsight is 20/20 so to speak, in that while I didn’t know what being “safe” or “secure” was at the time, but I do now, and that was certainly the epitome of feeling as safe as I may ever have. To not have the concerns of the responsibilities now, to not have the knowledge I have now, to not be concerned with the future, to not remember the past previously, to be immersed in the moment sitting with my mother at a very young age while she read a book. To not have any feeling of anxiety or concern, to feel that end of day sense of being tired. To smell my mother again, to feel the clothes and her body warmth, her breathe from her nose coming down upon me at times. To not know what happened previously or what will happen next and not even think about it. What’s certain is the sense of myself as well in the memory, yet so different as well. I know myself in my memory just as I know myself now. It seems we think similarly throughout the length of our existence on things but in turn also experience things differently now than we would have then.

Can this memory be true as I described? Or is it only true as I look at it from my perspective now? Was it what I remember or was it what I described yet didn’t know enough to describe it as I did until now? How do we know, how do I know?

The Propaganda is Everywhere

The propaganda is everywhere. Things are definitely looking to get worse before they get better. Those who rely on social media for their news are getting a majority of lies, its rampant.

I’ve never seen so many people who don’t have an understanding of what’s going on. Everyone’s a conspiracy theorist now, schools are evil, thus education is bad, intelligent discussions aren’t tolerated because they aren’t understood and nobody has time to seek the truth. It comes down to laziness, incompetence, hearing what you want to hear.

Its hard work this day and age to understand what’s going on, you can’t just read a bunch of articles or statements from people that agree with what your preconceived notions are. You have to go far beyond that.

Welcome to the age of misinformation, where people’s conspiracy theories without evidence are believed all due to confirmation bias.

Yes, people need to think and do hard work before spouting off nonsense opinions, straw-men arguments, because its too dangerous to spread lies this day and age, people’s livelihood and lives depend on truth being known, not beliefs. If you don’t know, ignorance ought to be embraced, not suspicion.

There’s too much divisiveness out there, too much ignorance, too many lies, too much propaganda and too much hate in order to spread disinformation.