Downsides of paying attention

It’s hard not to become demoralized after noticing a never-ending series of acts of corruption on the part of the stewards of the US.

A failed border bill with foreign aid tucked into the back recently became a bill of purely foreign aid, with any concerns over the border completely ignored.

A US-funded ethnic cleansing campaign-turned genocide on the part of our rabid pet, Israel, with no end in sight, because now Israel knows for certain that no one will step in to stop it.

An unceasing human wave at our southern border, emboldened by the knowledge that our government is utterly impotent to do anything to stop them.

A brutal Democrat/neocon-led campaign to ruin and imprison the leading Republican candidate for President, who, thankfully, appears to revel in the chaos.

A sickening movement by corporate-backed leftwing activism to rob children of their innocence, either through school programs, books, music, pop culture, and unsupervised internet access.

The rapidly tightening stranglehold of screens on every aspect of our life, and the tragically overlooked death of boredom that this cancerous proliferation of magic screens has induced. How can young minds develop in this environment?

The emergence of a “religion of the state” that encompasses almost all of the above into a single orthodoxy, which relegates all unapproved beliefs, opinions, and facts, into the realm of “right wing extremism”. This religion is being pushed primarily on our kids, because it is understood that they can change culture in one generation if they only capture a critical mass of young minds. And so, the insane, degraded, and Neanderthal notions that we used to only encounter once we reached college, are now being openly preached by sociopaths within the public school system.

Demoralization is the price of “noticing”, but in a sense it toughens your mind in the extreme, and you find yourself able to withstand the never ending wave of outrages.

Author: S. Smith