Over the weekend the President Of the United States took to Twitter to talk about not some diplomatic concern or social program to help the poor but to rant about his opinion on a situation in the NFL.  National Federal Loan program, you ask? Is this a fund to help homeowners with their houses? No, I’m talking about the National Football League.  Trump was upset that some players choose to kneel during the national anthem.  Of course everyone got up in arms over this, World War II veterans for crying out loud were posting photos of themselves kneeling carefully in vegetable gardens to prove the point that players had the right to kneel if they wanted.  Virtual firestorms were everywhere.  I can’t even.

The fact that very few people weren’t addressing the utter insanity of this shit show bothers me. What are you doing here people?  You are feeding the beast.  And by beast I don’t mean Trump I mean the invisible, insatiable monster that always wants to be outraged, that’s always looking for a fight.  The beast can be a good thing when calling bullshit on Nazis.  But the NFL?  When is this getting a little ridiculous…like now? Trump’s behavior and the world’s response is teaching our society but especially our youth to constantly obsess over themselves.  It’s bad enough when you have addictions to social media apps that encourage you to post photos and statuses non stop, but then you add the set up of a world where opinions are elevated to the point where respected journalists are writing columns about topics so dumb and insignificant to the context at hand, meaning running our country, that you start to really believe the world is losing its mind.  Are we seriously getting worked up over something so insignificant that really shouldn’t be the concern of the President at all?  At what point do we say enough is enough, and just eye roll over these statements? That’s what it would look like if you carried a desire for peace and truth.  

But instead we get to live in a state of fight or flight: a constant adrenaline rush.  The world constantly up in arms, with their ears to the ground listening for a sound bite they can broadcast out to the hungry beast.  It’s like a runaway train where nobody is living in their feelings, why do you think ghosting on dates and overall flakiness is such a norm now? Because people are checked out.  Out to lunch. Gone fishing.  Meaning ethericlly, because what’s happening as a result of this set up is nobody is really grounded in their bodies.  How can you make real decisions from your place of truth when you’re completely disconnected from this place? Answer: you can’t.  So people are going around leaving social media footprint of themselves and chasing the next best thing they can broadcast to the world of opinion yet they are internally restless and dissatisfied, because feelings have been put on the back burner to emotions.  Feelings and emotions are not the same things.  Emotions get produced by the ego of OPINION, and opinions are what our world has now in spades more than ever before whether it be obsessing over if NFL players can kneel or not or whether it’s  liking a Facebook status update where an opinion of some sort has been populated.  Opinion is why I stopped Facebooking over 2 years ago: it was too much.  The truth is we live under the state of opinions now more than ever before but opinions slow us down.  It makes us crazy, it causes self obsession that GOES NOWHERE even though it gives the illusion you are moving forward. 

Years ago the late, great Bill Hicks made the comment that watching TV was like taking a can of spray paint to your 3rd eye.  This was back in much more quaint times, when you could only access television through one or two devices in your home that always stayed put and the internet was similarly grounded too, contained to a PC in the corner of your home office.  You could much more easily separate the worlds back then. That separation is gone now.  In reality, only if you choose for it to be though 😉.