It was an episode from the original Star Trek. Kirk and his Enterprise crew were in the grip of psychic monsters who fed off of their fear and anger, which made everyone act like lunatics. So Kirk finally figures out the way to fight the monsters was to laugh and laugh and not feed them.
And that took care of the monsters. Not an original plot, but I particularly liked watching Kirk and his crew laugh and laugh.
You have to think kind of well of yourself to do that particular trick, of course. You need a healthy sense of self-esteem.
I don’t have much to write tonight, the dominant zeitgeist theme thingy this week was everyone exploring their adrenaline levels at the thought of great (scripted!) faux battles with our neighbors at town hall meetings, like that Twilight Zone episode where neighbors are turned against each other by outer space malicious life forms, mwoo ha ha ha ha.
All they have are smoke and mirrors. I guess smoke and mirrors can be scary the first or even tenth time around.
But after eight years, it’s not such a surprise any more.
For some Americans, it’s been far longer, it’s been hundreds of years. They see the smoke and mirrors very clearly indeed.
I’d like it if so many of the folks who were not allowed to return to New Orleans after the Federal Flood were invited to a town meeting and we could see and hear what they had to say. That would be something. ‘Course some of those folks have died since then, some of them made sure they were buried in New Orleans even though they weren’t allowed to return there in life. They voted to demolish public housing, you see, in New Orleans, even though the housing itself had not been damaged by the Federal Flood. The Ninth Ward didn’t do all that well either when it came to helping families return to homes they owned outright. It was only a coincidence that so many black families, folks who had worked in NOLA for years, for generations, were so disproportionately affected.
It would be interesting indeed to hear a town hall meeting with those folks, hear what they had to say.
Ha. Like that’s going to happen.
That would be real. We can’t have that. No sirree.
Fake anger and fake slogans and fake camera coverage of all the fakeness. And the fat cats doing their nefarious deeds as we all look the other way, as they always do. If we had some sunlight, some transparency in our government, it might not be so easy for that to happen.
And because of folks like us, folks like the ACLU, folks like the Democrats who elected a President who isn’t a creepy monster, because of activists and DFH’s and regular citizens of no particular group who have never given up, we will have that tranparency.
We aren’t going to stop yelling louder because of some phony Potemkin Citizens. The bread is stale and the circus shabby.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Happy Friday to one and all. Glad all the eclipses and full moon phenomena has passed … for the moment … mwoo ha ha ha ha ha.
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…is the only way I know how to survive it.
What did I do wrong? And why are they laughing at me?
Day of the Dove, one of the very last original series episodes to air in 1969. An alien channeled negative emotions to strengthen itself, and only the release of those emotions would counter that effect.
The Enterprise crew, along with the Klingon crew (the name of the ship was never documented, but the captain was Kang) were to be in eternal combat to feed the needs of the alien, and the alien would reanimate dead folks so that they could fight again.
I always had trouble with that, because if an entity had enough energy to reanimate the dead, why not just reanimate oneself?
In any event, that was one of the very last ones.
Warmest regards,
Doc
Go to town hall meetings and point and laugh at the teabaggers. It doesn’t matter if you start out with fake laughter because it will turn real soon enough.
Over at the Great Orange Satan yesterday, a diary was posted about breaking into song when the teabaggers get loud and disruptive. I thin that both singing and pointing and laughing would be very effective responses.
The trick is to keep singing or keep laughing no matter what they say or threaten or get all up in your grille about.