Super-Ultra-Fragile-Ex-president Is Braggadocious. The Blind GOP Now Is Really Quite Atrocious. Um-Dittle-Ittl-Um-Dittle-Lie

Umm, there’s a reason that the name for real is reality. Just saying. It’s what we all collectively say is real, I suppose, but the deal is that we have to acknowledge things that are real. And one other thing: feelings, by definition, are an interpretation of real, not a substitute for real. This is true even for people who “follow their gut.” Feelings can be accurate, but they are not dependable. It’s possible to believe in non-real reality even though that perception may feel real. It’s even possible to insist that reality is actually aligned with feelings and even complain when it’s not, but real is still going to be reality. Ya know?

To be fair, it really takes no effort or planning at all to misperceive reality. Kind of how we make mistakes, right? We might even consider mistakes to be reality’s method of providing us with learning experiences. To make mistakes is pretty normal for non-omniscient beings such as human beings. One of life’s greatest mysteries is why some humans insist on making the same mistake over and over until it becomes the only thing they can do in their life. To use a quote from a famous president, “What’s in it for them?”

The answer is probably in that old Zen idea of an eye cannot see itself and a knife cannot cut itself. I suppose that if someone is suffering from a program that continues to loop in their mind like a Markus K bass line, it could well be damnably hard to see that too. It would be the eye they are seeing with.

I don’t think that is a particularly difficult abstraction to grasp, but it appears that is, in reality, a nearly impossible abstraction to apply. An example of something that is easier said than done, I suppose.

For example, there’s little doubt that 45 knew he lost the election even though he tried to convince everyone to not believe their lying eyes. I think he may understand that if he can get enough people to agree to his description of reality, he can replace the actual reality with his version. It does not appear that he calculated the consequences of that particular replacement theory, much less did he have it peer-reviewed. If he did, he discounted his peer’s findings.

Very few strong-man rulers in history came to a good end. More often than not, strong-man leaders meet violent ends. The reasons for their demise seems to always be their excesses, not their positions of power. If it were not for his excesses affecting the populace, it is highly likely that 45 could become 47 or even 48. Unfortunately for him, there are currently serious questions concerning a number of excesses he has had with truthfully relaying how to comply with reality to a segment of the populace. He wasn’t fair, in other words. Not in word nor in deed.

Whenever a strong-man leader sails into the public awareness, there must inevitably come other like-minded wannabes in his wake. The majority seem to lack the experience to attain to such lofty positions, even though they might rightly perceive themselves to have the potential of such high and mightiness. They want to copy his behavior but they lack the understanding of what action means to the strong-man leader himself.

The world recently witnessed an upstart wannabe on the floor of the congress of the United States. The young upstart flexed on the world stage to the detriment of his country and especially to himself. He clearly lacked the experience of wielding power on the world stage. He did not even know how embarrassed he is going to be over the next years of his life. It turns out that the world stage is different than the little county stage he shared with the tax guy back in the day when they were younger and possibly dumber. Hey dude, there are three-year-olds the world over who can be destructive, ya know? It is not a skill position.

“He who does not oppose evil commands it to be done.” — da Vinci

45 did not disappoint. He faithfully lived as he always has and probably always will. He was demanding, juvenile, fact-free, self-indulgent and braggadocious. Exactly as he has lived life from his childhood. None of that is bad nor is it good. But it does provide a believable explanation for his actions. One thing that 45 deserves is a little love. I doubt he’s ever had that experience. I’ll grant you that he doesn’t do much to garner that level of personal appreciation, but that doesn’t mean that he wouldn’t benefit from a gallon or two of that human kindness.

There has never been anyone who cared enough about even the young 45 to stop him and tell him to reset his self-indulgence. At this stage, it is not even conceivable that he could reset anything at all. Besides, it’s too late for alternate reality news feeds to be profitable. Alternate reality is in decline. Alternate reality has also turned out to be ever so expensive. Truth is becoming more popular within certain limits and in certain demographics, at least.

Both 37 and 45 sought to bend reality to fit their version and sold that version to a demographic which requires someone to tell them how to behave. Someone who can entertain them. Someone who they can believe understands what goes on under their tin hats. Someone who can speak directly to them without words. Someone they “feel” understands them. There are three-year-olds all over the world.

Truth is relating how events were perceived. Reality is those same events without perception-based color commentary. If I consider the actions of that congressional upstart without color commentary, I have to consider that arbitrarily removing the person who is the third in succession from the presidency is not going to end well for the upstart or for anyone.

The most likely reality which will be formed from this debacle is a frantic run up to the next budget deadline with a continuing threat to the economic well being of the world in the face of two hot wars and a group of alternate reality proponents saying “them wars ain’t in their backyard.” That’s the problem with alternate reality goofiness. The real reality doesn’t know from this alternate thingy. It is, by definition, not real.

Is it just me or does reporting an alternate reality as one-side of a two-sided issue seem like a misguided business model? Here’s the problem I see: if an alternate reality is not, by definition, real, then how can it be reported? What is the report based on? The irrational idea that everything has two sides? Why would a corporation report an alternative reality as though it were real? Could it be that people who populate the corporation believe in another alternate reality? Maybe one where what they use to perceive reality is the one and only right perception filter, which could possibly be used to filter perception. Would that make any other perception of reality be in error if it discounted the reality perceived by the corporation? For some reason I’m reminded that 45 thinks of the corporation as he himself. Oh, my.

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