Hmm…predictive texting…when ifs are won what is fun? Wheat sounds better, though, doesn’t it?
If your country was facing a potential economic crisis and your leadership was in transition, wouldn’t you want to find an external enemy to conjure up for the masses to pay attention to? I would, if I was a Chinese political or business leader or even someone doing business with China.
A cornered rat is a cornered rat, a rodent that is rarely loved, just trying to make its way in the world.
Yeah, that’s the way we can feel sometimes.
Me, I’ve figured out that I never enter a room, especially one with corners.
I find a way to challenge everyone to perform at their best, whatever they imagine their best to be, by holding up a funhouse mirror to them and let them see themselves in an alternate world of strange shapes, sizes and colours.
Artists are the same way around the world. A musician from Trinidad, Nicki Minaj, has shown support for Mitt Romney in her song lyrics. So, too, in a way, Randy Newman and his song, “I’m Dreaming of a White President.” And, finally, Marvel Comics shows us an alternate universe where Captain America is president of the U.S.
What these artists don’t realise is they are endorsing the very opposite of the satire they create.
It is the sole intent of the opposite sketch to get people to think outside their way of thinking, causing many to ask, “What if…”
That’s why I’ve never mentioned certain pop culture figures in my blog, because mentioning their names, even in the most obvious satire possible, endorses their place in my alternate universe as well as promotes them in the universe we share together.
That’s why we in the popular press no longer talk about certain former political candidates or political officeholders.
As for me, my goal is to make everyone richer in the lives we share together in this moment, getting some of you to promote people you’d never mention in normal conversation.
Satire is making fun of all of us, including the satirist.
Why do I not have a problem with Mormonism when I don’t actively practice a set of beliefs outside of the new slogan, “Business. Science. Competition.”?
Because I am my own god of this blog, a god whose power is Comedy, whose strength is Tragedy, who lives outside of space and time, no different than anyone else who feels strongly enough about one’s self to take charge of one’s thought patterns and align them for self-preservation in a neutral universe.
A god inside a blog does not darken the Sun that holds the solar system together in which the blog resides. A god inside a blog is a literary device but any religion, including Mormonism, Islam, and others, is a literary device, isn’t it?
Speaking of gods inside their thoughts, it is fun watching the purveyors of mass media scramble to tell stories that support their points of view when they claim to be insensitive to the needs of viewers/watchers/listeners.
How often do we hear stories sympathetic to the aches and pains of world leaders who’ve been labeled cruel, vicious, dictatorial and destructive? Very rarely. We’d rather hear about sufferers of terrible treatments.
What about those who like to be dominated as along as they’re provided a narrow pathway on which they walk in fear, their plates and bellies full? Rarer still. We’d rather promote people who don’t want to live in fear.
Am I wrong to want people to have true freedom, including the freedom not to hear about lifestyles they deny are real because they take the phrase, “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” to mean staying away from those who don’t pursue the same things, no matter how repressive they want for themselves or don’t want for others?
Should cable/satellite/Internet TV companies offer packages geared toward specific lifestyles, rather than a smorgasbord that appeals to some, offends others and is of little interest to the rest? Do people have to even see the names of channels they want blocked or haven’t paid for when they flip open the online guide?
This is all old territory I’m covering, where we get to peek into the lives of those holed up in private communities (e.g., simply escape to their one-room flats; personal privacy is not just for gated communities), preventing their families from seeing practitioners of lifestyles they do not condone.
The United States of America and similar countries are not just physical states, they are states of thought sets, too, a magical place where we can be whomever we wish to be, imagining a populace with leaders sympathetic to our joys, sorrows, plights and accomplishments, or fighting against them, the populace and/or leaders, in perennial cycles.
Today, I overcame my aversion to entering a house of worship for political purposes in order to cast a ballot against a state initiative to once again play funny money game with tax revenues. Knowing the conservative nature of the state of Alabama, I’m assuming the initiative will pass but I’ve been wrong before.
Well, the political satire related blog entries come to a close with this one. I joined major artists in giving the Romney/Paul ticket a backhanded compliment and will let the ball roll on its own from now until the election is over. It was fun. Time to look at places farther along the spacetime continuum, talk about how we’ll get there and what it looks like from an anthropomorphic futurist’s point of view.
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Thanks to George, Joyce and Minnie at the voting booth today; Margaret and coworkers at the Marketplace Cafe (hope the wedding goes well on Friday!); Steak-Out; Google Play.
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