Celebrating Celebrity - a shallow and hollow New World

Based on the recent nominations over the past week, we are witnessing a blatant and full scale attempt at unraveling any competence in government for the next cycle of the scheduled American revolution. In fact, the cabinet picks, thus far, are a deliberate first strike of the match to burn the house down altogether. Metaphoric pitchforks and torches in the form of stun guns, pepper spray, baseball bats and flagpoles are no longer needed. They don't need to hide underneath horn hats, guillie suits or disguises. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/style/capitol-riot-tactics.html)

The first version of the upcoming 2.0 was more haphazard and incompetent due to the inherent chaos under an invisible and clueless hand with a lack of leadership and understanding of governance. Now the plan is laid clear via more deliberate design around Project 2025. The made for TV figureheads will be perfectly positioned to parrot any messaging that would make dittoheads blush. TV killed the radio talk show stars or, at the very least, has amp'ed up the rhetoric with prettier faces and smoother delivery. The smug Millenial Veep personified and signaled this hollow New World during the debate - act smooth, lie and smile at the cameras. Reality TV and truthiness are valued; reality and truth are passe.

As a counterpoint and alternative narrative for change and resistance, we can only hope for patience and resilience from cooler heads involved. They will need to fan out any major flames that would endanger the walls of our democratic structures and strive to reinforce any pillars at risk of significant damage to their support. The instruments may come in the form of blunt sledgehammers by defunding entire departments, programs and projects or sharp micro-incisions over time that may signify symbolic flesh wounds with outwardly visible blood or latent and slow death via a thousand small cuts over time. My biggest personal concerns are centered around the military and medicine but time will tell what else is threatened.