Blurry Bluster

Blurry bluster buster bembe shoot…

Anachronism filets are plentiful this season.

Whose intrigue will take the top spot? Stop.

Stop.

Stop thinking those thoughts or you’ll end up in a vise or a straightjacket.

When did things go so off-kilter?

There’s (rarely ever) a profound break with custom / reality. 

A sickness slowly seeps in—via a small black bile aqueduct.

Then, years later, we find ourselves nose-deep in it—treading bile and taken by the current.

It starts with one small contusion—easily handled at the moment—then we’re suddenly covered in bruises.

How’d that happen?… we didn’t notice… it’s not serious, is it? It’ll pass, right?

All at once—we wake up and we’re walking hematomas!

Then it’s too late and we wilt from the weight of bad blood.

Have a look around. 

What do you see?

How did we get here?

What I’m Reading:

It has been said that the Weimar Republic died twice. It was murdered, and it committed suicide. There is little mystery to the murder. Hitler vowed to destroy democracy through the democratic process, and he did. An act of state suicide is more complicated, especially when it involves a democratic republic with a full complement of constitutional protections civil liberties, due process, press freedom, public referendum. Which leaves one wondering whether any democracy could have withstood an assault on its structures and processes by a demagogue as fiercely determined as Hitler. 

— Timothy W. Ryback / Takeover: Hitler’s Final Rise to Power