Science Fiction

 So, here we are in the middle of 2024. Let's all take a breath together before we push on into the latter part.

Ready?

Okay. So as I mentioned, this is 2024, and we have a presidential election coming up. Which is interesting because there are still a whole lot of pointy heads out there with their own versions of how all that stuff back in 2020 went down. Court cases are still pending for those who attempted to finagle the final results. Those results of that election have been referred to as "one of the most secure" in our nation's history. 

No matter. We continue to chase the relative truth in hopes of teasing out some sort of non-negotiable. "Sure, that's what they want you to believe," is one of the most prevalent responses from those who use red baseball caps to cover up their pointy-headedness. Which is completely legitimate because there is no way to be sure that anything outside of my own limited perception is what it actually appears to be. Like in the Matrix, where Thomas Anderson was living a quiet normal life as a code monkey but it turned out that he was actually the savior of the human race who had all been enslaved by machines generations ago. He just had to take the red pill and unplug himself.

Why couldn't the Democrats have done the same thing? 

Then there's Dwayne Hoover, one of the protagonists of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions. Dwayne was doing just fine, living a life of upper middle class comfort until the "bad chemicals" in his brain knock his trolley off its tracks. That's when he becomes convinced that everyone around him is actually a robot and he is the only one with free will. He gets this idea from a book written by the other protagonist, science fiction author Kilgore Trout. So the possibility that someone got hold of a copy of this book and read any part of it could have disturbed the tiny brains of any of those pointy heads that have such a challenge distinguishing fact from fiction. 

Or maybe they're just stupid. If one considers that there is someone out there who is the Average American with Average American intelligence, it follows that nearly half the county falls below that mark. Which may be the reason why there as so many Americans willing to lap up the Kool-Aid. 

Stay tuned for the second half. It should be interesting.