Oblivion

 Between the fascination of an upcoming pandemic ridden college football season, Taylor Swift, and Kim Kardashian, wildfires, crazier weather, and, yes, a contrived obsession with Afghanistan in a post Trump time era, one only wonders how the so called 'survival guide' to climate change is truly written.  This is to say, 'countless' tiktoks ahead, if distanced through the lens, fears and anxiety should give way to getting back to normal life. 

   The problem seems to be that many things are getting thrown at us at once.  There isn't merely survival after a past presidents often delusional rantings and a proliferation of weapons of mass destructive false realities, it is a perfect storm of hard lined realities, the ranting dying at death beds obsessed with their version of truth.  Ironically, hotbed extremist could wander maskless through, at times, smoke filled streets, heat waves, and meet this obvious truth except that it were factored to so many other falsehoods.  Once stated 'raking forest floors', or government control of weather systems ala the redundancy of once lesser known conspiracy theories,  another competing false reality, simply offers that nothing has really changed.  Of course, this could 'seem' true for some, so long as your city wasn't smoke laden, evacuations weren't in order, or given that one hadn't lived a major region of the country where flooding were so obvious.  Another us versus them reality has it a form of punishment for the illiberal of America.  2020 Derecho in Iowa, 2021 flooding in Tennessee, or other places hit neither aligning wholly here.  Silence in that comporting of alternate realities gives rise of views that have filled in imaginary landscapes doing just well, when in reality they are equally impacted.  There just aren't a lot of people to do the witnessing, or not a lot is being said for that reason alone.  Who pays attention generally to the crop failures, property and casualty losses in rural America?  

Despite the massive dysfunction of a previous Trump administration, and the GOP's insistence on following through with a corrupted power application as either manifesting sudden contrived interests in Afghanistan (cynically read as a patronizing electoral grab bag for the military industrial complex) , issues of distraction like immigration, marginalizing the power of voting, and pursuing  disastrous anti vaccine/anti mask as an issue personal freedom.  The effect of the latter resulting in staggering economic recovery while displacing catastrophic burdens on medical health systems.  The  effect of the latter a perversion on the notion of personal freedom given the consequence of death and long term health issues arising in the wake of serious hospitalizations.  How free could one be, if interdependent more so on medical services in the long term?  How free could our children be more free if even a minimum of masks aren't pursued, and the consequences are disruptive to education over the course of the year with growing inset fear and trauma as infection spreads?  The response could well be to pretend, children don't get sick, or if they get sick, they get over it while vanishings of classmates happen and pretending is the best adults can offer.  Pretending that parents of classmates have simply vanished out of view while struggling mental health services offer behind the scenes cleanup for all the externalities that GOP has pushed for a brainwashed countryside.  A Mississippi governor offers, we have only ourselves to blame in this personal decision not to vaccinate, but there is more to it than mere personal culpability, there is a collective responsibility in the enabling of this.  DeSantis works against public health in a disastrous way to convey the dangers of his political pursuits, latent reporting of deaths which are timed in a way to thrust mathematically the toll as it were a step function, a timed and concealed augmentation to less attentive views considering tourists trips.  DeSantis has worked the ends of anti masking in setting a malign course for school systems as Abbott in Texas has similarly pursued. 

No surprise that the added bomb of a malicious law to set citizens against one another in the pursuit of anti-abortion legislation in Texas results in another timely state legislative drop.  All this seems a similar re enactment of Southern anti immigration laws passed back during the Obama administration time era which culminated in failure, yet this go around, there aren't Supreme Court assurances which is to say, collectively Texans are more at the whims of fending for each other and pitted against one another antagonistically while there is only hope for the collectivity of the nation to defend and the DOJ to do so those facing legal challenges in seeking abortions.

The false multiverse Trump legacy has had its mark in this day.  Aside from the usual oblivion and pursuit of reality lifestyles, college football, or whatever transient touchstone of today, the GOP is hoping you aren't looking so much, and if you are, that you are in touch with the belief that you are always right irrespective of what you believe even if the cost is death, even if the cost imperils future generations, even in personal trauma whether there is an economic future for tomorrow doesn't matter.  Today matters more than anything and getting back to yesterday's oblivion is most important.  Your disconnection from reality is most important.