WRONSKI WRANGLES

It's getting close to the 2024 Presidential election. The two dominant party candidates are sitting Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democrats and former President Donald Trump for the Republicans. As has become the pivotal political point in recent elections, Democracy is at stake. Doomsday, apocalypse level. Depending on whichever candidate you favor, the other one is gonna take us to hell in a handbasket. Some would also say that's where they both will steer the ship of state. Don't ask me to sort that one out. Way above my pay grade. As you may also have heard, there's a lot of killing going on in the world. Mass scale. Some would call it "genocide". We await the results of a thorough investigation to determine whether that in fact is the case. Rather than argue over genocide or no genocide, let's at least acknowledge that there's a lot of souls being slaughtered. By God's Chosen Ones no less. Oy! I won't try to sort out the history of

Welcome to Wronski Wrangles: Cuz, after all, if not Wronski ... who? Wherein all manner is wrangled, wrassled, wrested, and ... whatever.

  As you may have surmised from the daily news the Middle East is a powder keg. The diplomacy coming from Western and nearby governments to avert a disaster is full on. Daily we hear reports that caution is being strongly advised. That it's urgently necessary to come to the negotiating table.  For how many weeks [months?] have we been seeing the news that there's also a humanitarian disaster "imminent" in Gaza. Imminent. Unfolding. Really. How close to real do you have to get?  Per Mr. Bob Dylan: "How many deaths will it take 'till we know that too many people have died?" All that notwithstanding, and lovely posturing handwringing aside, the USA is all in behind Israel; and, whatever they want to do. No matter what. Unconditionally*. Like parents who are all behind their off the hook teenager, spoiling them no matter how or howsoever they run amok. Even when they drive them off a cliff. Well, on the way down they may protest; but lovingly. Careful not to

  "Imagine what can be, unburdened by what has been." I'm sold! Sounds awesome don’t it? A vision, stated by a visionary. We can stop thinking! Oh, joy!  Other such, loaded with wonderful meanings ... "We're American Airlines ... doing what we do best." "Double your pleasure, double your fun ... Doublemint gum." "Coke adds life!" "Diamonds are forever." "Just do it!" "Disneyland: the Happiest Place On Earth." "Apple: Think Different." The captions of our lives.  Well, those "unburdened" words ... what are they really? Show me the beef! For my money they're mostly about convincing you that there’s a vision, and spoken by a visionary. The communication itself, what it actually means, who knows? Maybe that's the gambit. It is open to whatever interpretation the listener gets. Never mind that there are listeners so polluted and awash with narrative propaganda that they no longer think

  The French. Shouldn't probably put them in charge of anything. [Not my idea. But, maybe right.] They do have the philosophical bent, don't they; go in for symbolism, big time. And, apparently, don't mind trotting it out for the world to see. As seen in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. At a point in my life when the inner struggle was raging, and I was short on certainties, a neighbor chided me for having such firm views ... "It's a loosey goosey world". I've pondered that phrase a long while, still do. So dismissive. Now we have a name for it, "Post Modern Relativism" ... or, man-on-the-street short form, "Whatever". Having been raised with the Golden Rule and the 10 Commandments, the secular God-Is-Dead world has been — ahem — challenging. So we had those bookend opening and closing shows for the Paris 2024 Olympics, loaded with enough symbolism to even confuse Foucault. The big scene from the Paris Olympics opening was the LBGTQ+ [Did

Fighting the Devil There's some devil in all of us. Wronski ... for sure! We find ourselves living in "interesting" times. No? Major wars. One as we speak threatening to ignite into a major clusterfuck with the entire Middle East region in play; if not broader, given that the US of A is gonna applaud and support the Zionist entity in whatever — read ... whatever! — it does. And, what that brat teen bunch the so-called leaders of the State of Israel seems to want to do is to have a big dustup with Iran. Some Jews you turned out to be! And, all this in the name of welcoming the redemption of Mashiach! Oy! Alas, that sincere and earnest boychick on a soapbox in the city isn't likely to get any media exposure from the mainstream media. Alas indeed. He speaks true. But truth seems to be in short supply. Unless the one you like to follow you have it that whatever they say is true. I think the term for that is "narrative control". And, "confirmation bias"