Almost At The End

…I wish.

If we’re not at the beginning of the apocalypse, this is, at the very least, a pathetic facsimile, thereof. Shakespeare is often quoted (from King Lear, I believe), “The first thing we do, is kill all the lawyers.”

(OK, it’s from Henry VI. I’m not a scholar and I didn’t stay at a name brand hotel last night either.)

But, I’d like to believe that if he were writing today, he’d change lawyers to ‘talking heads and/or news presenters.’ AND He’d have his own CSPAN-like channel. Maybe call it LIES (Like I Especially Said). Among his original coverage of everything, this is where you’d find the Claymation ‘Celebrity Death-Match’.

Adrift in the Seas of Stupidity, in every direction we look, we’re surrounded by the nonsensical. For every truthful sentence, there’s fifteen thousand extra pieces of drivel. Mulder said, “The truth is out there.” And it is. The trick is to listen/watch to all of it, and process the data as a lie. Whatever remains (after scientific analysis) is the truth. Yes, it’s a lot of work. But don’t you think the effort is worth your sanity?

To not start with lies, as the premise; you might as well accept your position as a sheep (or maybe rabbit). Kept in a cubicle, fed junk food, indoctrinated with pablum; from birth to death, every move, every thought is supplied for you. Utopia? For many, that’s what we have. I can only speak of the English speaking world, but I glimpse the modus operandi through foreign language programming.

And the Programming (I capitalize for emphasis) – from news, to reality 📺, to pronouncements from every government-NGA-corporation (and bloggers like me); utter(ing) fecal fecundity. It’s as if we, a species, are not even trying to be logical and rational (forget things like honesty, that went out the door at Walgreens’s in San Fran). To get even a drive-bys’ distance of accuracy on any subject takes a minimum of sixteen sources of information (most, possibly, owned by the ⚜️ Country of Disney®️ ⚜️).

I didn’t include sports in the Programming List™️. Courtesy of infectious air (a special thank you to ALL governments / institutions of higher learning – we couldn’t have died off without you), we’ve had basketball-hockey playoffs in July, empty stadiums, with masked color commentators in the booth (“Just look at that empty chair, Mike! Have you ever seen such a fan reaction?”). All of this transmitted excreta proves one thing, first postulated in a Douglas Adams book, then animated in the movie ‘Wall-E’; humans are superannuated and (almost) worthless.

Which brings my mind back to Ol’ Willy. A lot of his work touches on examples of the (lack of) human psyche. What specific work looks at the folly of human existence? Not to paint an unavoidable dystopian destination. as we’re aiming towards. But something that ridicules us into action to avoid such an outcome.