Snowballs are soft weapons of aggression. Nigh on 60 years ago before limited access highways confined traffic and prohibited pedestrians, bullies on main streets would pelt weaker, younger boys and taunt peers to target trailers whose tractor drivers didn’t care or notice. Drew a line at private passenger vehicles, because that might blind drivers and cause accidents. Scolded them to cease and desist, but they did it anyway, drew motorist reprisals, and induced scary chases by one obese schmuck in an obscenely big obtusely empty truck after another on route to a brewery six-pack that could instead tuck into a bike basket or rack. Could‘ve died in a road rage incident before altogether ducking local pack. Abet a felony attack, go to prison along with actual perp. What the frack!
Advice given out of empathy gets embraced less often than ignored. For similar reasons, nobody twice reads this blog so repeatedly abhorred. Instantly loses half of Americans, who only comprehend on a 5th grade level, texts scored 90+ on Flesch–Kincaid test. Never wanted to repeat self, stand out from a crepuscular profile, stick to a single topic, or surpass an inscrutable 10 F-K’s. With propaganda, persistence pays, so one must mundanely double down with every deceit whenever common sense or disbelief disputes. It’s exhausting, mirthless, and overcome simply by stating facts and telling truths from start. Your appeals to better selves does not presume your own blameless perfection in social criticism pursuits.
What causes aggression? Carryover from primitive hunters? Natural tendency in human DNA? Unfulfilled immature needs? A century of psychology offered burgeoning insights into how situations evolved from swarm predators into what they now are, lone wolves enabled by interconnected society. Can savage instincts be sublimated into sports skills? Recognize outrageous responses not only from spoken testimony or written transcripts, but study of body movements and facial expressions, a holistic right brained approach that had been culturally deselected, as late neurophysician Dr. Leonard Shlain argued, through left brained conditioning, linear storytelling, and mathematical reasoning.
In his 2015 Address to Joint Congress, the late Pope Francis urged Americans to, “Defend and preserve the dignity of your fellow citizens in the tireless and demanding pursuit of the common good, for this is the chief aim of all politics. A political society endures when it seeks, as a vocation, to satisfy common needs by stimulating the growth of all its members, especially those in situations of greater vulnerability or risk... [and] to avert the most serious effects of the environmental deterioration caused by human activity. I am convinced that we can make a difference, and I have no doubt that the United States – and this Congress – have an important role to play. Now is the time for courageous actions and strategies, aimed at implementing a ‘culture of care’ and an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the excluded, and at the same time protecting nature.” Previous administration heeded this call. New regime calls it socialism, denies his divinity, and does exactly the opposite. Let’s see what new American Pope Leo XIV has to say about it. As Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost he opined, “We need to hear more from leaders in the Church, to reject racism and seek justice,” and weighed in on X already severely critical of entire leadership, their migrant contempt, religious heresies, and vaccination eschewal. Gates Foundation cut childhood deaths and diseases worldwide in half by distributing free vaccines. Catholic adults number about 53 million, 30% of potential voters, not that they always align with papacy or cast ballots on conscience.
Mandela Effect has masses of people believing a false narrative, such as civil rights activist and hunger striker Nelson Mandela died in prison, when he actually survived bigoted apartheid, cruel Musks, and decades of undeserved detention to serve as The First President of South Africa. Conversely, a shamanistic mandella is a decorative dreamcatcher derived by first nation people from a ceremonial shield. Similarly named mandala is a circular Buddhist artifact meant to focus upon the Universal Wheel of Life: emergence, existence, purpose, recurrence. You could easily get confused among these homologous hypotheses. Or double your fun or pleasure by living your life on a real wheeled wonder. According to O’Brien’s Third Policeman, riders’ molecules merge with bicycles; therefore this delight by design can also fight to be seen in full light.
Do-nothings of both parties did head every government agency and ran up huge public debt before revenge term of Felon 47, but their firings were intended to curtail public services and destroy each agency, not to punish them personally. With no mandate after a rigged election and recording lowest poll numbers ever 100 days into office, he now boasts of quixotic victories, dares to proclaim he “rules the world”, and expects to banish everyone who fails to further his megalomaniacal ambitions. Huh! He’s supposed to serve American people not self having amassed billions in personal enterprises that monetize presidency, like selling US visas to drug lords for $5 million and White House stays to foreign adversaries. He hasn’t paid the half billion he owes in court judgments. Absolute power corrupts absolutely; constitution limits executive power far more than he’s willing to stomach. Poison to everything he touches, even McDonald’s sales have plunged since he “worked” there.
Relentlessly ridiculing this lying Gemini social butterfly just promotes his schtick and solidifies sympathies among his idolators. Every crass antic or juvenile tantrum is another test of what he can get away with; for example, when he violated rights of Venezuelan gangsters, few minded... good riddance. Tempts you to get used to concept, normalize cruelty, and overlook a crossroads in critical thinking. But deporting doesn’t entitle incarcerating illegals, only warranted if actually convicted of crimes and sentenced to finite terms, not de facto life imprisonment under Nazi death camp conditions. But next steps were to expel a foreigner with a clean record and legal status, then four innocent children who are actual citizens, having been born here, because, according to Magastan logic, you’re not a citizen if your parents aren’t, even though Constitution expressly says otherwise. Isn’t First Lady an immigrant? Then he defies Federal Appellate and Supreme Court rulings to return them all, instigating a constitutional crisis, because Constitution doesn’t grant unilateral power to him, a convicted sociopath and suspected space alien who expects laws to exempt him alone. Historians characterize such tyrants who’ve tried these tactics as exemplary failures who’ve foreited millions of lives including their own. How many must die before 25th Amendment, Section 4, gets evoked for first time?
When usurpers defy justices, destroy rule by law, and thumb noses at coequal branches of government, America appears lawless and unattractive to asylum seekers. It’s intentional, just another deterrent to immigrants they dread, along with economic recession, homelessness, joblessness, lack of entitlements, and no safety net. Racist radical oligarchs want entire continent as their caucasian, English speaking, private country club. Arabs, Blacks, Chinese, Latinos, and members of groups other than what they consider themselves join in critical processes including farming, manufacturing, mining, sanitation, transportation, water purification, and whatever populace needs and wants. But oppressors gamble that starving workers with skills will submit to slavery for food scraps and roofs to sleep under. No, the most heavily armed population on earth will simply revolt and surely depose these despots in short order.
Weiwei’s similar but smaller Forever bicycle sculpture was installed at Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2016, then 2022), as well as Artz Pedregal in SW Mexico City (2018). His tons of Sunflower Seeds (approximately 100 million handmade individual porcelain units from a town that used to make imperial chinaware) at the Tate in London (2010) was allegedly radioactive and extremely controversial for criticizing blind loyalty to an undeserving leader and consumer culture enabled by exploiting mind-numbing labor. His Alcatraz installation, including a huge colorful but confined dragon kite ready to take flight symbolizing freedom in a cage that once interred conscientious objectors, dovetails with new regime talking about resurrecting this crumbling island fortress as a prison for dissidents, another human rights violation by a fascist authoritarian bound to backfire.
If you go by bicycle, you never have to endure thaasophobia, fear of boredom, because life immediately becomes more thrilling, mostly reiterating, “You are here now,” never whining, “Are we there yet?” Pedaling through space/time makes you grateful for simple pleasures of reading, resting, and writing about your adventures. At some point in late 19th Century when god died, literary tourism by bike supplanted religious pilgrimages on foot, though both sought destinations referred to in books. On the other hand, cherophobia involves an irrational aversion to joy, often a result of letdowns and losses after having once been happy, which deters sufferers and voters from participating in fun or necessary activities. Triggers might include an equipment breakdown, lion encounter, rigged election, road accident, or stolen bike, which can be remedied once funk and rage pass.
Has criminality been rampant? Not according to crime statistics, if you discount new administration’s hundreds of egregious and unlawful acts. Has law enforcement been inefficient? Too few judges do slow due process. GOP added Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cover stuff formerly handled by DOD and FBI. DHS runs an unhinged ICE, which kidnaps citizens, then sends to foreign prisons without constitutional rights to arrest warrant, arraignment, indictment, motions, trial, sentence, then incarceration solely in the jurisdiction where offense was committed. Deportees should be released to countries from which they came, not shanghaied to gulags elsewhere, which should be reserved for convicted drug smugglers, Latino gangsters, Russian mobsters, sex slavers, and such scumbags from those respective countries already serving time in own prisons. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) and FEMA have been jokes since rolled into DHS. USPS’s renowned reliability went down drain right after they appointed the Joyless 75th Postmaster, highest paid at $341,000/year and least successful, recently forced out, and to be replaced by another lame lackey until service is illegally privatized. Back when Congress established mail service as a constitutional right, Ben Franklin’s annual salary was $1,000, $33,500 in today’s currency, less than 10%.
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