DoY 329

 Who is us?

Us is maybe a little goofy.  Maybe more than a little.  Us invents our holidays.  Us celebrates the founding of our country on a day when it wasn't founded. (Thirteen colonies, not one nation, declared independence on that day in 1776.)  Us commemorates the end of World War I and us calls it Veterans Day, or us gets confused and calls it Memorial Day, which celebrates the end of May.  Us celebrates the beginning of September and the beginning of the school year and calls it Labor Day, flying in the face of Labor Day as celebrated in much of the rest of the world on Mayday.  (We can't do that because it's communist and whatever the communists do we have to do differently.)  Us marks one day for giving thanks, and choose that day according to some story about one of the few times the Pilgrims were decent and civilized to the neighbors who had helped keep them alive.  Us is many things, but logical or reasonable us is not.  And us is defiantly proud of that!

DoY 322

 Who is us?

Us is flimflamable.  Yep, nonsense ignites us.  We let the NYT tell us that rising inflation puts heat on WDC, and we wonder, "Wait!  Should I have my knickers in a knot about inflation?"  We don't even remember what inflation is - that merchants screw us out of more money this week than they screwed us out of last week.  We think there's an actual bug called "inflation" and somebody somewhere - evidently in WDC - has the job of stomping on it.  Oh my people!  You shouldn't worry about critical race theory - you don't know what that means either, you should worry about our lack of critical thinking.

DoY 315

 Who is us?

Us is intelligent.  Us is!  How else could us juggle the set of lies us tells us about us?  How else could us espouse ideals and principles so against our own self-interests that they're practically suicidal?  Yet some 40% to 45% of us is Republicans.  How could the rest of us win an election, and squabble away the time us has to do something maybe useful instead of just doing it?  How could some large group of us argue about whether to stifle or maybe end a pandemic?  How could some of us want to keep any cure or vaccine us comes up with close at home?  Does us not understand pandemic?

Yes, Pogo,  We have met the enemy, and he is truly us.

discovery

Wow! I just discovered that I can blog from my phone!

Who'da thunk?

DoY 308

 Who is us?

Us is a gloomy subject.  I guess us needn't be.  Us has potential.  Us could change.  Us haven't changed much for millennia, as well as I can tell.  But us could,  Us cowld wake up tomorrow generous, kind, thoughtful, hospitable, sharing, amicable, empathetic.  Us could!  Us is halfway there anyway, isn't us?  All us has to do is delete a few habits, right?  Like jealousy, murder, war, maiming, rape, rioting, torture, gaslighting, ratfucking, those.  But damn!  They're so much fun!  Probably not, huh?