So… I took a hiatus.   Writing is not something I do to fill pages of copious drivel.   I know who I am and what I’m about… and sometimes it takes awhile for me to actually fill my “ships hold” with thoughts and observations that actually have substance.   Sure…I read blogs from people that basically squirt out pages of thought comparable eating McDonald’s for a week. So…whats in the hallowed halls of my mental sanctuary?   Over the past year I’ve been employed full time and immersed myself in corporate dronary. ( yes,  I made this word up).   I have my cubicle and my assigned tasks and my weekly paycheck.  Yay me!  I listen to conversations from fellow coworkers about life, love, and the pursuit of happiness ( which equates to home purchases, weddings, and family functions).    As I have said in the past–Humans are the smartest beings on this planet and for the past 1000 some odd years we do nothing more than have pissing contest around water coolers to see who has more useless shit.   I don’t know what makes us feel that this is an important endeavor,  I could give a shit less what new truck you buy… My 94 Toyota pickup cost me 500 bucks..so when the phallic-wagging 60000 dollar diesel “rolling coal” crew comes in…I have to hand my head and remember my “water cooler” comment from above.

I was thinking earlier today , after my usually barrage of friends facebooks posts telling me the Auchwitzinnian designs that Donald Trump has for Muslims and Illegal immigrants that were contrasted by others from the right wing informing me about  Hillary’s collective 1984 mind crimes testimonials…..I finally had enough.  So, for those of you who know me in person it shouldn’t come as a surprise when I say… Are you Fucking Serious?

Here is a little primer for anyone deciding to back any presidential candidate.

Follow Closely—–>   THEY ARE ALL LYING TO YOU. ALL OF THEM.                                                                         EVERY SINGLE LAST ONE.

Hope the reality of that didn’t hurt too much. All of those bowing at your Bernie Sanders alters and your Trump monoliths wont probably bat and eye…but that the truth.   The reality is that it’s all manipulation and bait/switch.   You can stand there and blame Bush….demonize Obama…. Right did this….Left wants that… blah blah blah.  It’s a big sham and we, the people of this United States of America, drink it in on 6×3 inch screens we needlessly carry around with us.   Ya know that 20 years ago a person would actually have to seek out the news….inform themselves and make decisions.  Now it’s pre-packaged drama snacks that we choke down with a Kardashian latte.  Yeah…it’s that bad people…and I really dont see a remedy for it.

With the invention of “safe spaces” and aggressive condemnation of “white privilege”, “black lives matter” “Save the whales” ” Free Mandela” “Hell no we wont go”…oh… wait… got off track there.   So before anyone starts to “check my privilege” let me get it all out there so you have a nice big target.   I’m a white, 40 year old male—and…I’m not ashamed.  Sorry..don’t feel bad at all for who I am.   In the past this same conversation has come up and after stating the exactly what I did above… my very white, twenty-something , female friend— with a look of disappointment in her eye muttered—- ” And that’s the problem”

Well shit on me… I’m sorry.  I’m sorry, I’m sorry.  I’m sorry for how things turned out on this planet.  You know my Irish/Native American ancestors and their large plantation—oops… hold on… I apologize for my apology on the basis that your premise is BULLSHIT.   Look.. do we have some serious socio-racial issues in this country?  Hell yes… Do we have some of the goofiest political ass clowns to every decide to take up the race… Affirmative Ghost-rider.

The reality of it all…is that most of the time…the truth is offensive.  It burns away the glossiness of whatever hype or propaganda we are being dealt.    And people have an extremely hard time dealing with that…they dont want to hear that they are not special…or they dont matter…or their cause is… dumb.    Some days…this shit I say and do…doesn’t matter…I know and understand this… I believe all lives matter in the sense of the right of existence… but  I have little empathy for some slighted social aperture because of something that happened before I was born.  I know 40 years of real history….. dont expect me to feel bad about some shitty slave owner in the 1800s and what happened then… not my problem.  It’s my responsibility to make sure it never happens again but not my obligation to coddle a person who feels they are owed.   Like I said above…my empathy can be waning.

So a rant is a rant. I’m sure there is someone out there…shaking their head about how obtuse my viewpoint is and…buy some self-imposed lamaesque superiority they are going tell me how right they are.    The same type of person is running around with a selfie stick trying to get a good Instagram photo of themselves pushing beached whales back into the ocean.  It’s not about the cause it’s about the idea of self importance.  The ” no idiot left behind” mentality.    One day when a “bomb” does go off…and the flash of light and heat burns a nuclear truth across the land…I shit you not… there will be some fuck trumpet there with a selfie stick trying to get that last final shot.   A million years from now when archaeologist sift through the rubble the will find a persons finger bones fused to a stick holding a camera pointing at themselves…in contrast… in Pompeii… people were holding one another…