THE STRANGENESS AND OPPORTUNITY OF OUR TIMES

At age 87 I have seen much of life, but never have I seen so much lying, so much dishonesty everywhere I look. Most of the titles to publications are click-bate, and have nothing to do with the story they tell. Offers are made to sell you something intriguing that never arrives. Fraud abounds, lies rule, nothing is to be believed at face value.

How did we get in this strange, unbelievable world, a world of fakery where the best hoaxer is deemed the winner, where the next president is the greatest lier of all, and who intends to control our personal lives?

How is it that a significant part of our nation seems blind to the disruption standing before us? Who can we trust? Anyone? Perhaps only those with whom we live and with whom we must avoid certain subjects of disagreement, but with whom we know the truth, agreed or not.

This has always been a world of extreme opposites, I suppose, but now we seem to be deteriorating into a society where truth is no longer honored, a place where truth cannot be discerned because it is expected that truth will not be presented.

I keep thinking of our next President and how he illustrates virtually every negative quality of which we can think, qualities that seem to have contagiously infected up to half or more of our adult citizens.

We look at him and would like to blame him. He obviously does exacerbate our downward spiral in morality, ethics, and reason, but upon reflection I think we know he is not…