I woke up, as usual, in the dark. At most times of the year, it would already be daylight at the same time of day, here on the Canadian prairies. Since today is the official day for the Winter Solstice, this only makes sense – the longest night and the shortest day here in the northern hemisphere. It’s not the friendliest time of the year for humans. Like many others, I have been putting links to help lines on various social media platforms, especially the suicide hotlines. It’s a sad reality for too many, that at this darkest time of year, depression and hopelessness seem to gain ascendancy. However, there is one important thing to remember during this Dark Night of the Soul . . . the way forward is into increasing light.
The above is “normal” in terms of the psychological make up of humans. However, there are other factors now in play that worsen the psychological situation. Trump has been impeached in the USA. However, rather than helping a significant percentage of the population, the anti-Trump crowd, if anything tensions are now worse with both sides of that existential conflict left in limbo. Democratic government doesn’t seem to matter anymore, leaving people feeling abandoned and powerless and dispirited. In Britain, the election of Boris Johnson has taken that country down a similar path. The hopes of having the UK respond with any sanity to environmental issues have been dashed and shattered, at least for four to five years.
In Canada, we faced the same threat in our recent national election. The centrist party squeaked out a minority government. That said, we know that minority government is typically short lived. The general mood is that of a hammer being held over our heads, waiting until the opportune moment for it to fall and persuade the people to elect another anti-environment government. How does this happen? Pit us all against each other so that anyone and everyone who doesn’t echo what we want or believe is tagged as the enemy. We see the truth of this in social media where intolerance is running rampant.
It’s enough to say fuck it and disappear into some proverbial forest to live off the land away from people. Yesterday, I came across this song that I want to share that sort of echoes this sentiment by Thomas Benjamin Wild. It’s a hilarious song, something sorely needed at this time of year. After all, from this moment in time forward, we are marching back to the light that promises us spring and summer.
How are you doing? What are your hopes for the tomorrows to come?
Well ………. Fuck. That is a great song. Thanks for sharing this, Robert. What am I doing? Waiting for the craziness of Christmas to be over. Jesus was born around September anyway, for Christ’s sake. Around here if your not white, Christian, and Republican something is drastically wrong with you. So I hear, read, see: ‘Merry Christmas’. ‘May God be with you’. ‘Fuck you you damn Democrat’. ‘Fuck you you damn Republican’. ‘ Fuck Hillary’. (I know, she is no longer in the picture, but the fine Christians I talk to can’t answer why they like Trump, since the majority of them did not vote for him in the 2016 primaries, so her name shows up). Oh. One more: ‘Fuck Trump’. Well that’s it in a nut shell. (Disclaimer: I am neither a Democratic, nor Republican. I am an Independent, capable of making my own decisions without bias of party affection).
So………. One more fucking year down. As for what will I do in 2020. Sit patiently and independently waiting for a reasonable person to emerge and say, “…enough of this fucking shit. Let’s be whole again”. Not holding my breathe. OK. I have used enough F words to get me to January 1. Have a wonderful time in the warm climate of Central America, Robert. Peace to all.
Ah, so you see that I am going to fuck off and take all the good vibes with me, leaving all the unused fucks for my conservative loving prairies.
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Hum where does it end? Myself I am thankful that I am on the last leg of my life. When I become ashes my family tree will be removed from the DNA pool of fools that seem to be running the world.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, my DNA will continue to be active as our three children have all added another eight to the global gene pool.
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