Constitutional law and democracy over authoritarianism and bigotry - that's the American way! A fan takes one for the team (the American team).
It's been said that President Obama is what America aspires to be, and Trump is sadly what we still are.
But Trump and politics and music and video games and infinite jests keep distracting us from what we really want to talk about, what we should be talking about. We should be talking about how we only have a handful of decades on this blue planet (if we're even that lucky) and the inevitability of our own demise, and how death is still one of the great conversational taboos, right up there with religion, politics and sex. We should be talking about how the ego is an illusion and how consciousness and the concept of a "soul" are our mind's greatest tricks on our own selves, and how even that sentence, like all language, is not free from that delusional egocentricity. We should be talking about how we should be manifesting kindness and care for all sentient and non-sentient things, and how compassion is probably the greatest expression of intelligence and wisdom. A great sage once said that the first step toward enlightenment is being kind to your wait staff and salespersons.
Or if that's too deep for y'all, we should be talking about the Boston Red Sox, who are putting together a season this year that will become the stuff of legends.
But Trump and politics and music and video games and infinite jests keep distracting us from what we really want to talk about, what we should be talking about. We should be talking about how we only have a handful of decades on this blue planet (if we're even that lucky) and the inevitability of our own demise, and how death is still one of the great conversational taboos, right up there with religion, politics and sex. We should be talking about how the ego is an illusion and how consciousness and the concept of a "soul" are our mind's greatest tricks on our own selves, and how even that sentence, like all language, is not free from that delusional egocentricity. We should be talking about how we should be manifesting kindness and care for all sentient and non-sentient things, and how compassion is probably the greatest expression of intelligence and wisdom. A great sage once said that the first step toward enlightenment is being kind to your wait staff and salespersons.
Or if that's too deep for y'all, we should be talking about the Boston Red Sox, who are putting together a season this year that will become the stuff of legends.
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