1 post tagged “reality”

That's what I've decided.
It's my reality and I don't have to acknowledge anything else if I don't want to.
Why not?
I mean that's what the neocon thugs who run the dictatorship in the states do.  Don't try to tell me otherwise.

"Friends of his from Texas were shocked recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the chest three times while he repeated “I am the president!” He also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could not get out of “our country’s destiny.”

If that isn't absolute proof that the draft dodging, coke snorting, alcoholic, misogynist, racist, xenophobic chimp they elevated to dictator has lost what tiny little piece of brain it had left I don't know what is. 

The point is that no matter how horrible things get, no matter how many people suffer and die, none of these eliteist thugs seem to notice.  It does not register in their reality.  The displacement of 2 million people isn't even a blip on the radar and the death of thousands of american troops is more a cause for annoyance than concern.  Mostly because they don't like having to deal with grieving families.  It slows down the pillage and looting of the foreign country they are occupying.

My problem is this: I happen to be one of those strange people who actually gives a damn.  It matters to me that Iraqi people are being murdered.  It matters to me that service people are dying for no reason.  It matters to me that the slave owners in charge enjoy all the benefits and none of the costs of war.  It matters to me that they seem to want to pretend that none of it is even going on and worse, that it's none or our business and we should just leave them alone to do whatever they like.

Well after years of fighting against it I am taking the recommendation seriously.  I'm done.  I'm conducting my own withdrawal.  I am retreating into my own reality.  If shrub can do it why can't I?  The major difference being that in my reality it's not cool or funny when people die.

I'm lucky in a lot of ways.  I'm married to a guy who really cares about me.  We are kindred spirits.  We have pets we love and we have a warm, cozy, wonderful place to live in a small, quiet little town located just slightly east of the middle of nowhere.  In the winter there's skiing and in the summer there's a beach.  We are extremely limited in our means which is a polite way of saying we are dirt poor but we always have enough to eat and the ten year old car is still on the road. 
It's really a pretty nice little reality and I feel fortunate to be part of it.  I'm glad I will be living here full time from now on.

Goodbye to war.  Goodbye to propaganda crap that passes for news.  Goodbye to world, politics, country, war, genocide, pandemics and global warming.  In my reality, none of these things exist.
What is the point in living in a reality where I can effect no change and no one gives a damn what I do or say when I can live in a reality where it actually makes a difference when I volunteer and help out?  Think small is my new motto.

I will do the very best I can to make my little slice of reality the best it can be.  Everything within the sphere of my existence will be important.  Anything outside of it will be discarded.
And I feel better already.