I can remember the day when Donald J. Trump into the job of the elect the executive branch of the United States.  I had a feeling of surprise and elation. The surprise was because everything I been told was a impossible outcome happened and instead of fear or anger as most happened to feel, I felt a incredible ease.  The second feeling was elation because I foolishly thought the circus train ride of the elections was finally over and we could all get back to living and being concerned about our own lives and communities. I was wrong of course. The train ride was just picking up speed as it was catching on fire as I would find out later.

I watched the 2017, inaugural procession with a bit of surprise at the fain ghost reminders of a Christian origin long sense past. The rituals of the past continue into the post modern era we live in. I watched my fellow citizens send out fits of fearful screams into the winter morning with a wonder at this strange comedy blip in time I would find out would be the opening fire for “The New Normal” in a post truth era for many people’s reality.

I feel like an odd idiot in this strange circus world I’m living in. I can’t stand the convivial music or dancing clowns with doctorate degrees in simulations in bogus realities. Every-where I look I find people trying to control my attention, my mind, my emotions and my sense of objective reality. I’ve long sense cut myself away from the Televised cable simulation of twisting reality to meet the needs of the high and powerful. I am not a super intelligent person I’m just as influenceable to accepting the twisting of truth and reality as any modern day Television programed person the only difference is that I came into mental maturity during the rise of the internet, as a practicing Christian and I’m introvert. My politics would have remained the same as the state I was born in if not for the internet and one book in particular’s influences on me.

Fahrenheit 451 scared the hell out of me as youth. I could only get through half that book as a teenager and then only be stuck thinking on the horror of that world for a few years before I got back to the book and finished it. The hallmarks of that book echo back to me even now as I write this post. A country that has lost her ability to think, question and reason in an objective reality can be easily controlled and influenced by the corporate Over Lord behind the red current with a simulation of convenient “truths”.

L. M. Parker