Thursday April 22, 2021
With my last post I mentioned Ted had Covid. Some were disappointed to hear it was Nugent and not Cruz.
Reading what Ted Nugent has said about Covid got me to thinking about what he says now that he can barely get out of bed. When faced with the reality of what one has denied what do they do?
It varies. Remember waterboarding? Sean Hannity said it wasn’t torture. Someone offered him a chance to experience it and he could never find the time to try it. A well known DJ in Chicago took up the challenge. He lasted three seconds before screaming for them to stop and declaring it as torture.
Then there were the patients in the ICU in Michigan that came in sick with Covid and wouldn’t accept the fact. It had to be something else. They were yelling at their nurses. When did they stop yelling? Stop denying? Answer: When a tube was shoved down their throat they stopped yelling. As soon as it was taken out they were back to denying.
What about the people who go to the Death Camps and deny the Holocaust?
Now we have a new threat. It’s people who are seeped in denial and believers in the most nonsensical of theories that are getting elected to political positions who are making laws and regulations based on their nonsense.
It seems we may be washed away by a flood. A rising ocean and a burning land. Maybe then. No, forget it.
I have travelled the world and I have seen the structures that people have built to live in the next world, in the afterlife. So far, everyone I have seen will, at best, have the remains sitting undisturbed since they were put there long ago.
I keep thinking someone would have said, “Now, hold on. How long have we been doing this? Doesn’t seem to be working.”
But that is not the nature of our collective cultures. It seems that each group gets an idea in their collective head as to what to do with the dead. An idea grows about an afterlife or a next world and preparing for it. This idea takes hold grows and preparations are carried out and then what?
Then nothing. There seems to be no heaven, no hell, and no afterlife. We may have to accept the reality that this is it.
Whatever you accomplish or don’t accomplish in this life, that is it. There ain’t nothing else. Now, maybe you don’t want to believe that, but really? Is there evidence of anything to the contrary? (Answer: NO. Despite all the chest beating, praying, foretelling, believing, coincidences.)
So now we get to today’s times and I have to ask myself, “Is there anything new here?” And yes there is, I think. Perhaps, it is something old in a new guise. Quanon. What is it? Not in particular, but as a phenomenon. It seems to be the mashing together of several strains of belief and technology in our society. Is it any different than the Shamans/conmen of old?
The danger we now face is that there are enough of these people that they are now infiltrating our governments at all levels and infecting them with their nutty beliefs.
The danger we face is from terrorists, idiots, and authoritarians. Oh yes, and climate change, and global pandemics.
PS Q u – is not the wine of Quanon is it? Is it? OMG! Could I be infected?
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