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Six benefits of embracing absurdity as a lifestyle"

“Nothing is proposed that can last more than twenty four hours.  We are living a million lives in the space of a generation.” Henry Miller

“Never have so many done so much and experienced so little.” Pizzaonius

When you realize you can no longer tell the difference between absurdity and reality, you have mentally adjusted to absurdity as a way of life.  Strange as this seems, this make sense because it explains everything.

We spend countless, frustrating hours trying to understand the very complex issues we deal with each day.  The liberating moment comes when you finally grasp that these so-called complicated issues are not explainable.  It is the nature of our new world.  Welcome to the world of absurdity.

It will take time and patience for this fact to be fully grasped.  When you do it is the beginning of your liberation. If nothing else you can stop wasting so much time.

If some of this seems strange to you what else could explain the political situation in the United States?  I rest my case.

SIX BENEFITS OF EMBRACING ABSURDITY

1. You relax because you know the people that seem so smart are ridiculous. It wasn’t you after all.

2. You know longer take yourself seriously.  Sooner or later in occurs to you, you are as absurd as everyone else. As a result:

3. Politics suddenly makes sense.

4. Politicians suddenly make sense. 

5. Wars will cease to exist.  No one wants to sacrifice or die in an absurd war.

6. You enjoy yourself more since you now know everything you do is absurd.

TWO EXCEPTIONS:

In the interest of practicality we are obliged to exempt two categories from our world of absurdity: your doctor and your plumber.

Brother Franco, for “The Pizzaonian” - a division of the Pizzaonian Newsertainment Network, Diverti Mento, Editor Emeritus

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Nationalism versus Globalization - The emerging, new American -

"THE NEW NORMAL"

Whenever I hear a person mouth the phrase the “new normal” not only do I become suspicious, I go into a mindset that is ready to reject anything that person says.  What is the new normal?  Before you answer, consider that this supposes you know what the “old normal” was.  You can see why I am suspicious.

For the sake of some clarity, I need to stay in one arena – you can see that normal, old or new, can be many things depending on what subject you are discussing.  For the next few minutes let’s consider values as they relate to culture, and eventually politics, in the western democracies

It seems that we are facing a shift in cultural and political values globally.  Technology has not only made the world smaller; it has turned it upside down – for one how about the institution of marriage?  It seems we all give lip service to it and little else.  All one need do is check the successful marriages that endure against those that do not.   

Remember when living together before marriage was a social stigma so strong that few would go against it.  Do not consider this judgmental, it is not.  It is of little consequence to me what choices people make as long as they do not hurt anyone else, and they are legal.  As to whether they are moral or not I leave that to each of them to decide. Just as an aside, you would think that living together would increase the success of the married couples that did.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to move the needle at all.  Those who chose to live together before marriage do not survive any better than those who did not.   

However, what we can all agree with is that a massive shift in cultural values has taken place.  Couples today make their own choices regardless of how you or the institutions they belong to and profess to believe in feel about what they are doing.

And, as in any situation, there is comfort in numbers.  However, this is something to think about - what happens when a culture or society preaches one set of values, and most of the people of that culture either act out or accepts completely conflicting values as okay..  This has to be somewhat schizophrenic.   

Marriage is only one arena.  How about national cultural values and the relationship of how a country develops and maintains a cultural consensus?  It seems to me that here again we find a similar situation as we found with marriage. In the western democracies, we only need to see how this is currently playing out in the United States. Just spend a few minutes a day and see how the American Congress is functioning.

Clearly we see two Americas.  One I choose to call the "Fourth of July America."  These are the Americans who evolved from the concept of the United States steeped in the nationalistic perception of “exceptionalism and manifest destiny.  In the beginning, manifest destiny went from ocean to ocean.  Later as the world grew smaller, manifest destiny meant bringing American culture and values anywhere in the world the United States chose to do so. How’s that working out?

The second America is defined by people who embrace globalization and the diminishing of nationalism as a guiding prejudice. While they see themselves as Americans, particularly when it is advantages to do so, they are more citizens of the world in their perspective.

While I admit this is a broad generalization, it does give us some perspective on how radically different these two groups can be.  It is also the dilemma the Republican and Democratic parties find themselves in - good luck with that one.

To be continued:

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Random thoughts on current events.....

Once upon a time it was considered a foregone conclusion in a democracy if you could provide accurate information with easy access for every one you would create a more enlightened and democratic society.  Well, for a while it looked like that was true.

But then a funny thing happened on the way to Utopia, the demagogues and special interests high jacked the information networks.  Unfortunately, what we are left with is a disarray of misinformation that only serves the special interests of those seeking personal gains and special advantage.

One way to end this nonsense is to have a well-informed and educated public that immediately sees through the hyperbole and nonsense.  So much for that idea - since the United States has essentially dismantled one of the most efficient and egalitarian education systems ever created.

A strange thing happens with well-informed, educated people: they see through the nonsense. This makes control by the moneyed interests more arduous.  As history shows, in the United States when the public is educated and informed, they can be very difficult to manipulate by any special interests.

Dismantling the education system in the United States was not that difficult.  As a matter of fact they had quite a bit of help from the teaching establishment.  Education has become so inbred and incestuous they lost their way years ago.  Add to this, teachers unions which once were the bastion of making sure education  worked,  now have dug in to positions that are the equivalent to the “earth is still flat moment.” This makes them easy targets to their detractors

Granted, there are some small bastions of hope, but that is all they are, small bastions of hope.

In the meanwhile, business as usual plays into the hands of those who like the system the way it is – easily manipulated by an all too willing press that have made Newsertainment and ratings their primary function.

What do you do about it?  At this point I am not sure anyone knows.  What we do know is that we have an ill-informed public, regardless of how much information they have access to, and a vacuum as far as critical thinking is concerned.

We still have one hopeful sign.  So far, sooner or later, a gullible public knows it is being had and draws a line in the sand.  This always results in minor changes that always seem enough for people to forget they are upset and go back to business as normal.

And what is business as usual?  Once quality public education is no longer available to the general public, it is easy to create a management class to serve and run the establishment.  The process is simple.  Create elite institutions that only allow into their hallowed halls the smart, but house broken - students that will serve the established order well by following orders and being rewarded accordingly.

Ever wonder why the truly creative people rarely come from within the system?  If not, you should. Another thought to ponder:  Why is it that an entrepreneurial system can occasionally run off the cliff when warning bells are going off everywhere?

When everyone thinks alike it is inevitable.

Till next time…..

Brother Franco, commenting for "The Pizzaonian" - a division of the Pizzaonian Newsertainmet Network, Diverti Mento, editor

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