"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
- Albert Einstein
(Is this in regard to voter apathy? –apocalyptic.)
“We should not give in to pessimism” - GWB
(Is this in regard to voter epiphany? –sardonic.)
As far as I know, the word “pessimism” and its antonym “optimism” are subjective. An individual’s M.O. would be to judge a glass to be half empty or half full. Those on the dark side of things tend to see a glass half empty, opposed to those seeing the hope that the glass is half full. It is a comforting feeling to know that most hope that things will turn out ok, thus embodying all that is optimistic. But where is the reality?
Arthur Schopenhauer says:
…the will is the fundamental reality to which all knowledge and reason are subject, that following its dictates leads to illusion and suffering, and that the goal of the good life is its extinction.Hmm. Will. The will of the people is the fundamental reality?.... This follows (to) disillusionment? Extinction. Whoa, never knew Schopenhauer to shoot so true!
So, back to the glass half full/half empty….
If we observe a glass
being filled, and the pouring ends at the halfway mark, we all observe that the glass has been filled half way (certainly not emptied half way…): the liquid was poured in, and the level rose to the half way point…. Likewise, and without prejudice, if a full glass is
drained to its halfway spot, the observer shall remark “this glass is now half emptied” (not half
filled) from what had been observed at the point when the glass was full. I’d like to conclude this paragraph with ‘a reasonable human shall acknowledge the above to be self evident’.
But you may say this is still very subjective…..
Subjectivity. A cruel word. It’s all about relativity, and as Einstein remarked, it’s all about observation, yet, he said: “reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Hmm, So that’s what Dali was all about…
Anyway, let’s look at a very special word:
tend (of which the antonyms are: abandon, ignore, neglect). As I am addressing a political idea here, the word “tend” which is related directly to “attend,” needs to be affixed. One may
tend to business; to a child; to responsibility.
To a flock of sheep.
In another meaning, one may find they
tend towards country or classical music, instead of rock, or opera.
Tend is a key subjective word. It means both
to care for and
to prefer; even, perhaps,
to be prejudiced towards and subjective to/of a thing.
So, what the frig is the point of this rant?
On the 27th of March, Gee Dubbya was defending the new immigration law. Any
great leader is both obliged and warranted to state “let’s not give up hope” or “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” (-FDR) but when it comes from a leader,
any leader, at the
rock bottom of their leadership, subjectivity needs to be weighed within the bounds of reality.
Attending to the country seems not what the current U.S. administration is all about. Tending to cover up one failure with another failure, without any loss of enthusiasm tends to askew, disfigure and eviscerate Sir Winston Churchill’s remark: "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
Ability is what Churchill’s generation had, apparently nothing but ineptness and ego
incontinence is what the current generation in control of the White House inherited (excluding the wisdom of Gee Bush-the-first, conceivably, in the fact that most became aware that ‘reading lips’ and ‘lip service’ is the sugar of any politician’s platform).
So, to the quote-ala-Bush RE: Immigration at a naturalization ceremony, March 27, 2006:
“We should not give in to pessimism. If we work together, I'm confident we can meet our duty to fix our immigration system, and deliver a bill that protects our people, upholds our laws and makes our people proud.”
(Ha, ha, he said “duty”)
Okay…
Let’s uphold our laws. (Hint: electoral college/the Constitution?)
Let’s make our people proud. (Hint: Stars and Stripes?)
Let’s protect our people. (Hint: The Patriot Act?)
Think optimism! (Hint: Ya’all, stop yur negativity!)
Let’s work together. (Hint: we aren’t operational now, but IF we do work together then….)
We can fix the system…. (Hint: I’m at an all time low, but please like me…)
It’s like stating “I can’t confirm or deny there is a problem” when no one
asked if there was a problem…
Great ideas. Wong mouth piece.Biggest beef here is the big cheese himself is proclaiming/prognosticating to his flock “don’t worry, be happy!”
And what a grand flock we are!
--Epilogue--
Oh, and by the way, Republicans can sleep well! The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. What’s the chance of that happening again!? Nada: most likely the first bomb dropped in WWIII will kill democrats, democracies, asses
and elephants.
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