Now Is Not The Time To Panic!
We'll all have plenty of time to panic when Art Linkletter dies and they find out that he's really been dead the whole time.
The world does seem to have fallen down a well, like a little girl, and no one knows what to do. The last few weeks just look like one cataclysm after another. Earthquakes, hurricanes, extra stupid wars and warriors, not to mention the price of gasoline (that was not a mention, it was rather more a quick peek so's not to upset you more than necessary) makes the world look to aliens who get CNN that earth consists only of tragedy, misery and incompetents who try to fix all that.
This ain't so. Even though we who watch the tube too much have our face stuffed with the horrors that consume our attention like a boy seeing his first bra strap, we must remember this; that the world is and will continue to be a beautiful and awesome place, where peace among individuals interacting just regular like, is almost universal.
It is a place where those of us who are lucky enough to live in a free state are able to live lives of bountiful magnificence, almost totally unbridled. Especially us here, over in America. We get up in the morning to a world of our own filled with 300 channels of entertainment, private autos, food enough to make a Pakistani child faint in wonderment, a system of free and pay toilets, and a whole class of people who's living it is to make our lives easy, happy, lazy, and too often stupid. We have it so good, it's easy to forget just how great it is.
The man who invented the easy chair didn't name it that because his name was Easy. He didn't name it at all, since he had a stroke trying to move his bowels in one of his chairs, forgetting that it was not one of his chain of pay toilets. Thank God he gave us a place to sit and look at, and escape from, those rare places in the world where the folks have fucked up, or God has.
We sit in our overstuffed chairs, fat and happy (as it should be) and tut-tut the news. So tut-tut until you're happy. But do not forget that the world is our gorgeous girlfriend, and we should appreciate her great body and good personality, and forget that sometimes she needs a bath.
She'll take one, eventually.
Joe Postove
The world does seem to have fallen down a well, like a little girl, and no one knows what to do. The last few weeks just look like one cataclysm after another. Earthquakes, hurricanes, extra stupid wars and warriors, not to mention the price of gasoline (that was not a mention, it was rather more a quick peek so's not to upset you more than necessary) makes the world look to aliens who get CNN that earth consists only of tragedy, misery and incompetents who try to fix all that.
This ain't so. Even though we who watch the tube too much have our face stuffed with the horrors that consume our attention like a boy seeing his first bra strap, we must remember this; that the world is and will continue to be a beautiful and awesome place, where peace among individuals interacting just regular like, is almost universal.
It is a place where those of us who are lucky enough to live in a free state are able to live lives of bountiful magnificence, almost totally unbridled. Especially us here, over in America. We get up in the morning to a world of our own filled with 300 channels of entertainment, private autos, food enough to make a Pakistani child faint in wonderment, a system of free and pay toilets, and a whole class of people who's living it is to make our lives easy, happy, lazy, and too often stupid. We have it so good, it's easy to forget just how great it is.
The man who invented the easy chair didn't name it that because his name was Easy. He didn't name it at all, since he had a stroke trying to move his bowels in one of his chairs, forgetting that it was not one of his chain of pay toilets. Thank God he gave us a place to sit and look at, and escape from, those rare places in the world where the folks have fucked up, or God has.
We sit in our overstuffed chairs, fat and happy (as it should be) and tut-tut the news. So tut-tut until you're happy. But do not forget that the world is our gorgeous girlfriend, and we should appreciate her great body and good personality, and forget that sometimes she needs a bath.
She'll take one, eventually.
Joe Postove
posted by Mr. Liberty at 2:18 AM
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