Joman

Here's another one I found on the net. On Facebook. This one, from Joman, is pretty much a downer, but I can relate. About all I can say is, don't give up. Darkest before the dawn,
things look hopeless until they don't, blah blah. 

We’re approaching the threshold of insanity. Unfathomable levels of corruption and cruelty and depravity and dysfunction have been laid bare. And nothing is being done about it. Congress might as well not exist, the corporate media has completely folded, all for one man who transparently embodies every single thing that’s wrong with the world, and his band of ghoulish co-conspirators and sycophants and cultists.

They’re not brilliant orators or master manipulators; just mediocre, megalomaniacal men with incredible privilege and entitlement who have managed to stumble from one grift to another, scoff in the face of accountability, and single-handedly destroy every sociopolitical norm we thought we’d never lose since the last world war.

And there isn’t a qualified hero in sight. We’re totally on our own, just carrying on with our trivial little lives like there aren’t a dozen different ways the most evil and powerful people who’ve ever lived are trying to wipe us all out.

The moral arc of the universe needs to bend toward justice a lot faster if we’re ever going to get out of this. The past 10 years have dispelled the concept of “karma” to me. I’ve watched good people get crushed while cackling hyenas breeze through life without a care or concern for anyone but themselves. It’s like everything is upside-down. What we call capitalism is breeding generations of narcissistic sociopaths who like the idea of barbarism over basic human decency. Where is their karma? Where is justice? Where is God?

I’m starting to think “good” was only ever a figment of our imaginations; that no such thing exists, and reality is molded entirely by selfishness, deceit, and criminality. Will they plunge us into chaos, retreat into their bunkers, wait for the dust to settle, paint themselves out as heroes and victims, and get away with all of it scot-free? Are we just living in history that will be rewritten to erase us?

When people say MAGA is crumbling, I roll my eyes into the back of my head. Brazil put the guy in their country who tried to stage an insurrection in prison. The guy who did it here will quite possibly never spend one day in a cell. He’s been implicated in the most sickening crimes imaginable, and millions of people still support him; they just dismiss anything that doesn’t paint him out as a saint as fake news.

I genuinely would not be surprised if he was the actual Antichrist at this point. Never since Germany has such a feverish spell taken over an entire country, and never in history has it happened at this scale. And we just carry on. We just go to our jobs, post our little posts that change nothing, when the global threat we’re facing makes the Cold War look like a game of Pong. And we don’t even get to experience these horrors in a singular, coherent reality. Instead, we have to be gaslit by co-workers and family members and treated like there’s something wrong with us for having the slightest clue about what’s going on.

Hell is real. And it’s right here. And I didn’t sign up for it. And I’m in the beating heart of it, just trying to hang on for dear life for the sake of the people I love. Where’s my karma? Where’s theirs? Where’s the karma for the people we’ve had to bury and grieve?