Psychosis & Plans for the Future
I can’t stop thinking about how strange the world is right now. There are many people who believe tomorrow they will be raptured. There are stories online of people quitting their jobs, selling their stuff—one lady is keeping her kids home from school, so they can all be together when it happens. It’s like a collective psychosis. It’s funny, but it’s actually disturbing. What are those people going to do on Wednesday? Sure, the prognosticators will choose a new date to grift the gullible, but what about the people who gave up so much on a lie? I’m concerned.
The influencers have convinced millions that a slain racist is a martyr, but they don’t look into it. The system is set up for people to follow blindly. If someone says it with a podium in front of them and a cross behind them, they cannot be lying. And so, they are losing their minds. Some are convinced that he will be resurrected, comparing him to Jesus. The man who advocated hate and fear and division, the man who would take food out of a child’s mouth if their parent wasn’t sufficiently deserving. The man who believed that LGBTQ people should be stoned to death, as it says in The Bible. That man, that hate monger. They are wrapping him into their belief system. It’s gross.
My walk was warm, but good. It’s been a year and a half, but I am still amazed when I can do these walks and not be out of breath. I am a little under the weather today, but that’s the ragweed. We just can’t seem to get a good break from it and the longer the pollen count is high, the worse I feel. It’s going to be even higher tomorrow. I’ll just have to take some extra meds. I don’t know when we’ll get a reprieve. We need a good sustained rain, but there are just more of these showers in the forecast, and those don’t really help much.
In honor of walk #333, which I will be doing tomorrow, I’d like to get in 3.33 miles. I just think that would be fun. I’ve been going around the park 4 times, and that doesn’t even get me close to that. I’d have to go around about 12 times. I can do it, and I’d like to do it. Maybe I’ll have to incorporate some of the sidewalks as well. If I go really early, I can walk the sidewalk along Noble and go across the train tracks. It sounds like a lot, but I can do it.
[Walk #332, 1.39 miles]
Playlist
- Oh Sherrie, Steve Perry
- Music Video Girl, Adam Casanova
- If You’re Over Me, Years & Years
- Georgy Porgy, Toto
- It Do Take Nurve, Onya Nurve
- She Bop, Cyndi Lauper
- This Is Your Moment, The Cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Cherry Bomb, Joan Jett
- They Can’t Get Next to You, Rick Wilson
- Fatnômes, Christophe Willem
- Meltdown, Jake Shears