This just dawned on me in a way that is so obvious and in front of our faces that has added a further metaphysical tint to an added irony to this year…and it is the year itself:
2020
Nothing…absolutely nothing about 2020 was in focus.
Everything was about “hand waving and posturing”…weaponizing. Boasting. Lying. Misinformation.
Everything about this year is and has been distinctly out of focus.
And we’ve been looking at it all this time and, perhaps not ever seeing it, most of us. The utterly unfocused nature to something labeled “2020.”
O, the irony.
The metaphysical rightness about everything having been so obscured and foggy and hazy.
Everything has been focused on the wrong target, the wrong chart. The wrong foci.
Instead of focusing on unity, love, and working together, we focused on divisiveness and hate. Differences that agitated more and more riffs between each one of us for being republican, democrat, and all the various forms of Human. I include the media here.
Focused on disinformation. On fear and dread and bluster.
Instead on focusing on creating a stronger, more robust nation and population, we focused on the parochial, the narrow, the petty. The partisan. Loyalties, it seemed, weren’t to an idea or notion or a cause—let alone something like the Constitution—but to an individual.
There’s a name for that.
I have remained quiet on most things going on the past few years, but can no longer, and want to get it off my chest before the holiday and the new year: I think we’ve lulled ourselves to some kind of self-deluding stupor where we think “we” can do no wrong…that everything we say or do is right, no matter what side of whatever “line” we find ourselves. We have allowed our collective heads to swell. Let near-absolute power blind us to doing what we say is “right,” but actually displays no such details upon detailed inspection (come on, except for certain…aberrations…most of us know what’s “right” and “wrong”). We have allowed the powers of Office blind us.
How do I know this?
Because I watched the Senate impeachment hearings. I listened to each and every one of the those Senators. And to the person, not one republican mentioned one fact. They all resorted to opinion. Feelings. It was concerted and absolute. As if…scripted. If they had actually believed they were all in the right, doing the just and proper thing, they would have barraged us with facts.
Facts.
Why wouldn’t they? They’ve done it before for other issues, when they have even one, minuscule “fact” and nothing else, so why not here? Because they had nothing. Not one of them presented one, solid, indisputable fact. They resorted to opinion, which we all know one cannot take issue with. Cannot hold to any so-called rule of law.
Their focus was heinously obscured.
They allowed themselves to be blurred, rooked, and misdirected, because they all wanted to remain in power and had pledged some sort of misappropriated, arcane, and mysterious allegiance to an individual, instead of to
Support and Defend the Constitution of the United States
And here we are. The end of an ironic year, labeled 2020, and caused by years of missteps and myopic vision.
I don’t believe in coincidences, and I believe that everything happens for a reason. Sure, things are not always easy, but sometimes they need to happen to focus on the weaknesses that exist somewhere, and it is up to each of us to take a stand and correct where corrections are needed, and not let History repeat itself.
I know there are many well-meaning individuals out there who may take issue with some of my words, and I give you the respect to do that, but please also give it to those like me who take issue with that which you do not have issue. I have no issue with those who honestly believe something, but I do take issue with those who perform actions that are blatantly injurious in their outcomes for no other reasons than to remain in power (this has been repeatedly documented over the years in multiple, independent investigations, notably with one majority leader who proclaimed the incumbent-leader to be “crazy,” but suckles up to him anyway, and who has also been documented as also saying that the secret to power is money-money-money).
As I have said—and I do believe it–the bulk of Humanity knows Right from Wrong. The remainder who don’t are a combination of reasons, and aren’t always obvious until it’s too late…and they’ve infected the organizations they’ve gone to…but if we all take the needed steps, it’s never too late to correct a problem…and hopefully, well…
Hopefully our end-of-year eye charts have made that evident…and we all put on our corrective lenses.