The Good Ole USA Today

 

It is said, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Given the daily news broadcast, ugliness too

must have its due.

War, homelessness, famine, mass murders,

swindle, fraud and greed, social and political

maleficence saturate the state of mankind’s

pathetic condition routinely in our each and

every day-to-day.

Commercial media continues to infuse

the pretext of strength and beauty into

the human psyche. The premise being

that the enhancement of physicality and

mental acuity—makeup, clothing, exercise,

financial and material wealth lead us to a

rewarding, more appealing, satisfying,

fat, wrinkle and worry-free life.

Man, woman, child, black, brown, red,

yellow, white, straight, LGBTQ, conser-

vative and progressive, we are all

mesmerized and enslaved these days

by the connectivity of light-speed

technology.

Take a good hard look at what is happen-

ing in the Good Ole USA today--over 400

million guns, more than one for every man,

woman and child in the country. And a

Congress which blatantly and irresponsibly

fails to restrict access to military-style weapons

of mass destruction. We’re talking death and

devastation here, folks, the death of our children

and thousands of innocent others.

Our Second Amendment Rights to own and bear

firearms, some claim. Where are women’s rights

to their own prenatal health care? Where are

parent’s rights to ensure the safety of their children?

And what about a citizen’s right to vote, and every-

one’s right to love and be loved by the ones they

choose to love?

I happen to love Picasso’s work and Beethoven’s

Symphonies; you think Picasso’s stuff sucks and

listen to Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. I can live with that.

By the way, it’s your turn to take the trash out

today. Put the friggin’ smart phone down, and

pay attention, I’m talking to you!

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Chris Hanch 4-19-2023