Monday, January 5, 2015

The End of the Line

I am always striving to write a meaningful post. Something that has a kernel of truth, yet is funny, comforting and  memorable. Of course I have never achieved this goal, and wonder if anyone ever has. Famous quotes abound, but few of them mean a damn thing. For example, in 1933 FDR uttered his famous, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," in his first inaugural address. Boy, did he turn out to be wrong, particularly if you were a Jew. Basically it's an outright lie, which you know if you have ever had oral surgery, but it sure made people feel good at the time, and so it caught on.

People love those feel-good platitudes, especially when they remove all personal responsibility and turn us into hapless boobs buffeted by the winds of chance. "It is what it is" has become so popular that psychologists and psychiatrists use it when they come up empty with why you have this or that problem. You can't do anything about it when it is what it is, because that's what it is, ya know?

The real problem is that my most meaningful observations are hardly upbeat, having to do with the hard truths of life. So I try to write something funny, but I'm all out of funny.

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