The Era Of Disingenuousness Or: The Normalization of Denial
Denial and disingenuousness have existed before they were worded and they were spawned from fear and apathy and related to cynicism. I’ve been and done both. In this current blessed year of our Lord, 2022, denial and disingenuousness is being laid on thicker than ever before. That is of course due to the rising compassion and empathy. It’s as if we are getting better and at the same time getting worse.
I don’t want to go after groups of people, but let’s tackle politics or political leaders. Back in the sleepy time of 2016 some Americans thought that was the biggest joke of an election in their lifetime. I was among them. It was the choice of eating a turd or a poop sandwich, but I was blinded by privilege because I didn’t think Bush Jr vs Gore was any better. I’m aware that I’ve been wrong a lot.
I mentioned it earlier, but it’s really wild that Donald Trump was sold as a Christian. What that made me do was look at what people claim to personally believe and compare that to how they behave. The Don doesn’t behave like a Christian but does appear to worship money and his own ego. Joe Biden is a Catholic and that seems to check out as he appears to have done a lot of suffering, which according to his religion is great.
Basically we’ve got all these leaders who claim to believe a thing but then behave and even create things that oppose what they say they believe in. It’s really weird and it has to do with money. It’s like painting yourself into a corner and then burning the house down to get out. The paint was nice, you made a mistake, and then you started a fire and none of this makes sense now. And then you get no satisfactory answer.
Lots of stuff has come out over the last few years, let’s say the last 16. There’s been real stuff and there’s been fake stuff. Obama was born in Kenya. Donald Trump loved pushing that. Media demanded Sarah Palin’s emails while Governor. And then Obama’s wife, Michelle, was transexual. John McCain sang “Bomb-bomb-bomb, bomb-bomb Iran.” Hillary Clinton destroyed a bunch of her emails. A ton of her emails were hacked and released by Wikileaks. A game show host became the President. He was mocked relentlessly and a wave of nationalism rose. More Americans than ever voted for Joe Biden as President in an election that would have been stolen no matter what. But his son left a super incriminating laptop at a repair shop.
The last political person I can remember making a mistake and then resigning was Al Frankin. He was photographed fake-honking an army person’s boobs while making a funny face in the camera. There’s other people who have owned up to mistakes as well, but I guess I remember Al’s because I was a fan of his. From the little I knew, he seemed to stick to his beliefs. And when he was exposed as an insane sex pervert he apologized and left.
The American people, me and maybe you, have gotten pretty confused and woke and pilled and yoked and tricked and who put my Saturday in this sandwich? You get the idea. We’ve been put through the wringer by paying attention to our leaders. The rule of the day, for the last however many decades, has been do as I say and not as I do. And living under those conditions doesn’t breed any kind of good consistency. That does develop on its own, however. But there would be an awful lot more of it if it was actually encouraged from the top on down.
Seriously, the whole concept of Jesus Christ’s love is pretty small in mainstream society today and it’s missing from the rebel side. It’s still there though, but I have a hard time identifying where. Part of the reason is it’s not massively involved in politics. It could be, but that requires the whole thinking with our hearts, which is 100% possible and a thing we do anyway, and not thinking with our wallets.
There’s way too many people now spouting about Jesus and wanting to kill a bunch of people. And this is going on in America, and it’s not a new thing, but I think it’s bigger than ever. I really don’t like it. It’s one of those easy things for me to identify as antichrist, because it promotes justified death and has nothing to do with peace and love. That’s like, similar to the whole crucifixion idea, and that happened to a lot of people.
There are too many people claiming to believe in Jesus and God and all this really great stuff and then talk about executions, killing people, punishing people, destroying people, and basically all the stuff that goes against any basic understanding of Jesus’s words and teachings, which is probably the reaction to being too liberal with his words and teachings. The same goes for the God stuff. Jesus promotes the peace and the love and God says everything else is small stuff, so don’t sweat it, God has it, focus on the peace and love. That is not going on by a lot of people who claim to be religious or Christians.
For a fact all the Jesus stuff has nothing to do with killing people. No one needs to die like that. We’d all be better off if we’d get over it. It’s very possible that we’re reaching the point of no return with this cycle, depending on what happens in the next short while.
It does feel good to look at things through a spiritual eye or with spiritual perception. I know that politically I am classically on the far left but ended up coming around somewhere to a personal center where I can see things on the left side and right side, fairly clearly in my opinion. Jesus and socialism are basically the same thing, especially in the way that neither of their benefits work by forcing them. That’s interesting to me too. The working together for the best of all and the love of all cannot be forced on anyone, the simple fact is that force is what causes it to not work, causes the rebellion, because something about the human individual is unwilling or not ready. The choice, man, super fascinating.
Pretending there is no choice and things have to be this way or that way is so disingenuous it’s almost maddening. There’s so many different choices about so much different stuff it’s actually overwhelming for some people when they’re left to choose a thing for themself. There was a story a couple years back about a North Korea defector that was miserable with the amount of choices and responsibility of living in ‘free’ society. Yeah, we’re all free to fuck up as bad as creation can handle. Wonderful. If we had more of that Jesus love in action we’d have some really amazing safety nets in place for everyone.
Denial and sexuality go hand in hand. In this day and age being gay is more acceptable than ever and gay people are still not welcomed in various places. The understanding I have come to have here is that being gay is actually not an authentic truth. I didn’t come up with this on my own, this was something my gay cousin himself believes. Huh. That says a lot and is interesting. It means that part of him accepts his gayness is an identity that he chooses and isn’t his authentic self and his authentic self would be open to giving and receiving more love. Since I’m not exactly a mind reading, I don’t know much further into his psychology, other than he understands he’s living in a form of denial.
In the case of my former housemate, DaMan, he very much made a conscious decision that he needed to be gay. He needed to constantly be reaffiriming his gayness, the same way that overly insecure macho men do things to reaffirming their heterosexuality. It’s the otherside of the insisting to be gay coin, insisting to be straight. I don’t mean a person is denying their gayness, but they are denying their attraction to another person of the same sex, and it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a sexual thing, simply an attraction thing. Attraction can occur for a whole slew of different reasons, and it’s a really eye opening thing to look into. You can learn a lot about you by asking yourself some genuine questions.
To sum this all up, everything I’m attempting to express here is this: lots of our politicians, most of the ones you see on whatever screen you’re looking at, are often disingenuous. And there’s a pretty large portion of our society that are in denial themselves and of themselves and the world that they live and participate in. This is a pretty combustive combination, denial and disingenuousness, and we’ve been experiencing the consequences of all of this heating up, boiling and spilling all around us.