It used to be funny.

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I remember watching cartoons and slapstick comedy. Bugs Bunny was my favorite. I initially like Road Runner, but over time I came to despise it, as I did with Tom and Jerry. Both of those, as I learned, were bastardizations of natural order. True, not every coyote gets every roadrunner, and not every cat catches every mouse, but they catch enough of their perspective targets to continue. There were still many shows I really enjoyed. Oddly, in spite of my rejection of those two and perhaps a few others, I enjoyed funny shows and movies because they were exceptional in their leaving the bounds of reality.

Though I still like some of that, what bothers me is what used to be gag material is now closer to how things really are. A bony bucktoothed ugly slapstick like character of a minority race who probably was not born in the nation who is also probably muslim is running the nation. Black panthers are allowed to intimidate racially, Israel is being told to let down their defenses and being told not to think about retaliation in the face of genocide, while he pushes for a socialization of American business and banking, in the one nation who stood against communism which threatened to take over the world and against the socialism that has eaten the rest of the world. We have a "leader" who is trying to get the most (and only) progressive nation to fall back to the default world order of socialism, tribalism, and other backward ways.

If it stopped there, that would be enough to be too much. But it does not. Men (and women too?) are so plugged into internet porn they clog the system. They are so into feeling sexy, looking good, and having money that they are willing to kill over a million babies a year to keep the good times going. It surprises me to see the look of horror on people's faces when they hear that the Inca's sacrificed children, even babies. And to know that they have no idea that they do this on a scale the Incas could never have sustained. To know that killing a dog might get you more time than killing a human. To realize that calling the police if you see something suspicious in certain areas might get the caller in more trouble than it is worth, even if they are right, maybe more so.

Yeah, our president is worried about the effects of the rightful killing of an abortionist, but he cannot be bothered to comment on the outright religiously and racist murder of one soldier and the wounding of another, IN OUR BORDERS. Is he going to pardon this one too? This just is not funny. This is obscenely grotesque. I go through periods where I wonder if I died one of those times, instead of coming back as I had thought and been lead to believe, but ended really dying and am in purgatory. On days like these, I wonder if I missed even that mark. After all, the last death would have been a suicide. No, this is hell on earth, or seems like it.

Go out, in any city, and look at what evil is. Get too close and you will not just become a fixture of it, you will be a victim of it. Put a camera in the average high school hallway if you want to see underage sex. And expect that if you send your children to public school that they will be brutalized, molested, treated poorly, or all of those, more so if they are white, religious, ethical, bright, and again more so if all of those apply. What it is it I hear in commercials... Ah, right, "Don't be so vanilla!". You do know what they mean, don't you? And they mean it in every way that can be meant.

Well, the laugh is on us, and it really is not funny. I have backed out of politics, being that Republicans are just Democrats who claim to disagree but whom you cannot differentiate in any real way, and Democrats are just socialists and communists. All of them have tried to shove God under the bus and are fighting over how quickly they can avoid being vanilla. I remember one scene from Apocalypse Now (based on Heart of Darkness, bastardized by Hollywood, of course), where the Colonel (whatever rank) suggests the hero call in an air strike on the camp and provides the coordinates, knowing it needs to end. Yeah, well, perhaps that IS what is needed. I may be insane, but I am far better off in that regard to most of the inmates.