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The Magnificence of Self-deception
by lewis Monday, Jul 30 2018, 8:13am
international / prose / post

It’s magnificent due to its now pervasive global reach, the populist leader that knows jack shit about politics but sure knows how to take orders and dance in front of cameras. Sense, logic, skill, ability and political knowledge are no longer requirements for national leadership. The latest example is Pakistan, where a former cricket player and political dunce has been swept to power, of course with elite and military support, but no matter, he’s pretty and popular!

Imran Khan (left) -- Pakistan's new leader

Then we have Trump, a vacuum-headed, bumbling clown and absolute political moron, however, today cretinism no longer disqualifies anyone for national leadership. And so we have to ask, wtf?

Well, with the least effort its becomes apparent that the masses are dreaming wonderful dreams completely divorced from reality, is reality so painful that self-deception has replaced it? It would seem so, and what makes matters worse is there’s no easy solution to this phenomenon/plague.

Sure, any psychiatrist would inform you why SHOCK, physical and/or psychological, works, it devastates and wipes the mind clean for a time enabling it to reconcile itself with reality once again, but consider the level of shock required today, nothing less than a nuclear war or massive tectonic, or huge meteor impact, upheavals that would sink continents and wipe most human life from others, indeed whatever type of shock, it seems it must be earth shattering, so deep has humanity plunged into self-deception.

However, hope lies in the now real possibility that one fool leader without the slightest understanding of the real consequences of the weapons he/she is able to discharge uses them, as one triggered nuke would set off the entire world’s arsenal of nuclear weapons as no nation could afford to hesitate in such an event.

Today we have totally irresponsible buffoon leaders actually making thinly disguised threats to launch on a regular basis while populations sit back loving it, give sanity a break dreamers, but at least it would force everyone to wake up from their respective dreams, though the waking would be comfortless as radiation poisoning is one of the most horrid deaths imaginable.

Now, I’m no religionist that would thank god for the ‘end times,’ but I’ll pretend (the current fashion) for a while I’m a typical ignorant, hypocritical Christian; so tonight while I’m praying for a new woman, money, car, house etc, I’ll pray for the end-times, so a mass hallucination (second coming) could return to earth with all the impact of a fart.

I’m beginning to understand why George Bernard Shaw said the only safe place for the sane in our world is in an asylum. Geesh!