Have you noticed how Twitter has tag teamed with Facebook to be the generational go to thing for the world today. Just about ever thing and every one can be Twittered. What’s up with that? Do we not already have enough ways for the corporate world to borrow into our lives without being Twittered ever time Denny’s has a Slam special or Kohl’s “door busters” are about to bust?
If I signed up to be Twittered to or to Twitter with every opportunity or person that exist out there, well, let’s just say that I would never sleep. You can only know so much and then it tends to go in one ear or eyeball and out the other. When Twitter first came out I thought it was kind of cool and so I signed up for an account. I even twitterd a time or two. The response….crickets… Then I realized that the reason I was not receiving any twitterings back was because I hadn’t built a network of fellow Twitterers who can’t live without knowing when I go to the bathroom or go to the store to pick up a head of lettuce. I figured that if I didn’t really need to know every movement or thought a person was thinking or doing then maybe no one needed to know mine. So I don’t Twitter. If you do, well knock your self out and tweet to your heart’s content.
And are you as tired of this whole political season. As I write this, it is November 1, my birthday if you didn’t know, and tomorrow is election day. It can’t come soon enough for me. Between the constant negative ad’s on TV and the littering of our common tera firma with all the signs it is enough to make a person just want to start a petition to limit the amount of signage and air time for all this junk they call campaigning. And unless you have missed it, we can thank the Supreme Court for the ratcheting up of the advertising volume as corporations and special interest groups are now free to spend any amount of money they like to defeat a person or proposition. That in and of itself has exacerbated the vitriolic rhetoric that just makes one sick. Civility and common decency has gone on vacation and hyper negativity rules the airwaves and print media. Between the talking heads on radio and TV and robo calls, enough is enough.
It’s November 4th now and the election is history. Congrats to the Repub’s on their sweeping victory. OK so you now have about two years to balance the budget, finish building the wall on the southern border of our country, return the country to full employment, capture Osama Bin you know who, win the war on drugs, and eliminate the national debt. Good luck with that……..
Oh, drug ads are back. I sware, just listening to all the side effects these new wonder drugs have is enough to make a person seek out a jar of vapo-rub an ice pack with some Witch Hazel thrown in for good measure as the cure-all for what ails ya! And take you aspirin every day.
Am I sounding like an old guy yet?
I recently went with a group of friends to see the movie, “Inside Job”, the story of the financial crash of 2008 and how it all happened. This is one eye-opening movie to see. I felt that I was somewhat knowledgable about what brought on the economic collapse, but seeing it all laid out in a continuum from the early events that set the stage to the actual dirty deeds that created the tsunami that hit our homes and pocket books. No one political party is immune from some portion of guilt in this mess. But those who perpetrated this crime against our country are largely still in power either in the corporate world or the political one.
Where we are today and where we are headed tomorrow as a species sort of makes me glad to be in the later third of my life. As I have written in other posts on this blog, in the end Mother Nature will have her way with us. As it was in the movie, “The Matrix” you can either take the pill that opens your eyes and lifts the vale to see the bigger picture and the ugly truth that is, or you can take the other pill and wake up in your cozy world oblivious of what IS happening in and to our small blue planet.
And lastly, today is the one year anniversary of the passing of my dear Mother, may she rest in peace. She was a strong-willed woman who had a deep and abiding love for her maker and did her best to instill the same faith in the lives of her children, grand children and great grand children. Love and miss you Mom!
Well, this is the end of this post and now you know why I don’t twitter and other random stuff. Never the less, I pray you all are living life to the fullest and doing your part to make this world a better place.
….the journey continues…..
Richard
