Tag: Politics
Our lights are on, but we’re not home.
Our minds are not our own…
Our hearts sweat, our bodies shake.
We under-sleep, we over-eat/shop/drink/self-medicate/chime in/whine/share/post/tweet…
Whoa, we like to think that we’re immune to the stuff, oh yeah.
We’re gonna have to face it,
We see the signs, but we can’t read (between the lines).
Whoa, we like to think that we’re immune to the stuff, oh yeah.
Closer to the truth, we can’t get enough.
Gonna have to face it, we’re addicted to dramalove.
Picture that with Robert Palmer and a bunch of scantily-clad Hashtags gyrating behind him.
Drama is amazing for books, movies, TV shows (also the only place we should see giant shoulder pads), especially soap operas (daytime or prime time)…
but it shouldn’t be the dish-of-the-day in politics and the news.
We’re acting like we’re in the throes of teen angst…forever.
Drama distracts us from people stealing: power, money, rights, hopes, dreams, sanity, democracy itself.
It keeps us looking past the smoke and mirrors, the fluffy and the oh-so shallow.
We see drama everywhere, except behind the curtain where the wizard of awwws is pulling all the levers, pushing all the buttons.
While we’re fighting, blaming, quibbling, crying, decrying, they’re all, ‘Eat, Sleep, Rule The Galaxy, Repeat’.
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” ~Maya Angelou.
Two Can Keep A Secret…If One Of Them Is Dead

“Listen do you want to know a secret
Do you promise not to tell woh woh woh closer
Let me whisper in your ear…”
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The irony of that Beatles song and everything else, once you’ve told a secret, it’s no longer a secret because, really, two can keep a secret…if one them is dead. “Pretty Little Liars”, huh, more like Petty Little Liars for many politicians and too many others https://yadadarcyyada.com/2019/01/14/your-genius-is-showing/. But not everyone!
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Some wear their secrets as armor, others to get away with things, others to avoid embarrassment, but no matter the reason for your secrets, they’re toxic.
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I get that secrets and lies are a thing, have been for as long as humankind has existed.
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I naïvely thought social media would make it better. Wrong again, it’s worse (or just more obvious…more visible?). Now it’s all denials, proof, more denials, more proof…and so on.
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Me, I’m an open book, what about you? Of course, at any given time only those two pages are really ‘open’.
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When someone tells you another person’s secrets, red flag wavin’, don’t trust them with your secrets (or anything else).
“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn’t one.”
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At least chocolate never lies or keeps secrets…or maybe it does, who am I kidding, I don’t care.
