How 'Bout Them Eggs?

 Watching an interview with author A. Mechelle Dickerson on The Daily Show a few nights ago, something that was discussed stuck with me: the idea of having us all down here in the middle looking to the left and right with an eye on who is getting what and why aren't we getting the same as them. We don't tend to look up. Up there are the ones who are content to keep us fighting for scraps. They would much rather have us a scattered rabble arguing amongst ourselves about the price of eggs while up there (insert gesture here) they have plenty of eggs. Ironically enough, they who are "up there" are often given eggs in the hopes that they will recommend the eggs to those "down there" so that more eggs can be sold.

It's not about the eggs, as it turns out. 

My wife was intrigued by the number of stars being offered travel shows, with destinations that we who are in the middle will likely never see. I pointed out the frustration I sometimes feel about these excursions, since these celebrities are being paid to take these lavish expeditions while we are left at home hoping that we can afford the subscription fee it costs to watch their exploits. 

Sometimes they are served eggs on these shows. In very special ways at which we can only marvel. 

It's still not about the eggs. 

It's about working a job for decades and hoping that negotiations with the school district allow us a raise that keeps us on pace with the cost of living. In California. 

Right. Good luck with that. 

And yet, here we are once again having testy debates with a school district that struggles to pay its bills while the Second Trumpreich "struggles" to find ways to spend five hundred billion additional dollars on war. 

Five hundred billion dollars would buy a lot of eggs. 

And they all seem to have a way of finding their way up instead of spread out like you might expect eggs to do. 

Once again ladies and gentlemen: It's not about the eggs.