Lies, Deceit and Propaganda Galore!

Yes, this is where we are at this point on this Planet of Lies, Deceit & Propaganda where “Good” (depending on your faith you could say: God) and “Evil” (depending on your faith you could say: Satan) are being defined to suit one Political Agenda, or Another. I think of them as a Seesaw when throughout our existence on this Earth there have been a few times when the Seesaw was on an even keel, otherwise it had been tilting sometimes upwards for “Good” and sometimes downward for “Evil.” Where would you say it is balancing these days? I tend to believe that it is tending upwards for “Evil.” You might say that this is a Pessimistic Outlook, or you might believe that it is a Realistic one. You decide!

“Evil” is when Climatologists and Nuclear Scientists are both, and with equal fervor and evidence, ringing the alarm bells and saying that Political Leaders aren’t doing nearly enough! Climatologists are saying that unless serious action is taken Dangerous Climate Incidents will be occurring more frequently and will be deadlier. Nuclear Scientists are saying that unless Nations de-escalate their warmongering, belligerence, arrogance and greed the Nuclear Winter is getting closer and closer. It is enough to see how fires, tornadoes, earthquakes and other weather related events are occurring more often, or to watch how last week Japan was commemorating the devastation that the United States wreaked by dropping Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki for Political Leaders to pay attention and reverse course. Will serious steps be taken or we are in for a whole lot of tragedies? Yes, as long as “Evil” is on an upwards tilt tragedies will be our fate.

Listening to and believing Trump expounding on how his tariffs are making us richer by the day, how “hot” this nation is, how the Big, Beautiful Bill will benefit everyone, how swimmingly everything is going you might think that you are living in Utopia unless you can see through the Lies, Deceit and Propaganda, because simply looking at what’s going on in Texas with the totally discriminatory redistricting, or with the callous immigration proceedings, or with ICE now waving the racist recruitment slogan of “Defend your Country and your Culture” (whose culture pray?) and being turned into Trump’s Private Christian Supremacist Militia, plus all the other Retributions, Petty Vengeance, Laws, Executive Orders etc. etc. and you will realize that Fascism is not sometime in the future. it is already upon us! This is very Dangerous and Threatening to Every Single One Of Us!

Note On The Margin: As I was re-shelving my few remaining books after our recent move I saw many interesting titles that I decided I needed to read again. One of those was “A Prayer For Owen Meany” by John Irving which I had read many moons ago as a Book Club choice. I just finished it last night and I enjoyed every page of it! Irving is my contemporary being, if I rightly recall, a year older than myself. We have lived through similar Events, Political Figures, Wars, Coups, Religious Angst (although his heroes in the novel are both churchgoing believers, and I am not) and Dramatic Changes that were going on during that tumultuous period of the Sixties to about the Eighties. The novel had not resounded as much within me when I first read it. I believe it is what I have always maintained in that in reading, or listening to, or watching any written, recited or enacted piece we bring our own baggage, mood, circumstances, and age with us. So while reading Irving’s novel for this second time I surprisingly realized how much I had evolved in order to allow me to Feel so profoundly what John Irving was conveying and I was delighted with him, as well as with myself! Irving’s novel, as well as my own perspective made me recall a recent cartoon strip that I saw on social media in which the brilliant Charles Schulz of the famous “Peanuts” characters that brought us so much joy portrayed Snoopy and Charlie Brown having a conversation in which Snoopy asks: What do you miss? And Charlie Brown responds: I miss the way I viewed the world before I knew too much about it.” Priceless! I am pretty sure that this is exactly what Irving and I experienced as we came of age. Yes, Priceless!

This brings me to the Villainous War On Gaza – being that this is the third? the fourth? the fifth war on that strip? – and the Lies, Deceit and Propaganda that have been perpetrated by one after another of Israeli Governments in Israel’s humongous efforts, especially since the Criminal Holocaust, to portray their “Victimhood” which they believed deserved the entire Planet’s support No Matter What Evil the Israeli Government Inflicts On Innocent Palestinian Human Beings. Specifically, Yes, the Israelis suffered on October 7, but that was not the beginning of the Palestinian Catastrophe. The Israeli Government has been inflicting numerous and humongous Pain, Murder, Assassinations, Displacement, Expropriation of Land and Property, Incarcerations, Torture and Starvation of Palestinian Humans since 1948. Does anyone remember amongst all the other insidious events how Israel measured the number of calories allowed to be consumed per person in Gaza and only allowed that amount to be brought into the territory? The brutality of Israel throughout the Gaza Saga far, far outdoes any brutality shown by Hamas on October 7. Hamas are designated as terrorists by the Israeli Government and All the Western Nations, but Not Israeli Settlers who have been menacing Palestinians, cutting down trees, burning orchids, homes and humans since 1948, and especially recently? Is that Not Terrorism? However, the Lies, Deceit and Propaganda continue blatantly, in everyone’s face, against all the World’s Institutions, Conventions, UN Resolutions, Humanitarian Laws, Legality and on an on and on! And, the half-hearted chiding by those voicing their horror at Satanyahu’s continuing an ignoble Starvation Campaign; bombings, daily murders of Journalists, Children and Innocent Human beings; threats of Occupying Gaza and Annexing the West Bank are Totally and Entirely Ignored by the Fascist, Racist Israeli Government and its complicit supporters. So too are the ignored Israeli Protesters, Jewish Holocaust Historians, Writers, Organizations and Thinkers. Confounding!

Yes, the United States and Israel are Allies and both are going down a Perilous Fascistic Extremist Path! The seesaw is titling upwards for “Evil,” and the tumultuous period between the Sixties and Eighties that Irving wrote about in his novel A Prayer For Owen Meany will be remembered as only the beginning that brought us to the disastrous hell we are living through now! Only a Miracle Owen Meany can probably save us now, and it cannot happen soon enough!