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7 Year Anniversary Achievement
Happy Anniversary with WordPress.com!
You registered on WordPress.com 7 years ago.
Thanks for flying with us. Keep up the good blogging.
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My WP 7th anniversary came and went on 01/21/23. I’m only acknowledging that non-event belatedly; i.e., as the means for facilitating a discussion regarding both society’s and my own site’s “future”.
It’s (dis)courtesy of the pandemic perspective, that I’ve become witness to the hideous side of human-un-kind. You see, I had naïvely expected that, whenever nearly eight billion souls have no choice but to face down a common, debilitating, deadly microbial enemy, we would also, miraculously, undergo a humbling, unifying change of heart.
Not so.
Consider how even the best of our world’s leaders have hit brick walls; whenever trying to persuade the pandemic denier masses to implement even the simplest life saving protocols (such as masking up and social distancing). But what the hell else could anyone ever expect from a society that’s also rife with global warming / climate change / science deniers?
So, what we did wind up with, instead, is the grotesque, business as usual ‘tude; i.e., too damned many malcontents chomping at the bit to break out of pandemic quarantine; their butt ugly goal being to engage and upstage that godforsaken microbe; to ignorantly add to an already needlessly high death toll. Beyond that…
Our daily news cycles, once again, are being dominated by bigotry fueled police brutality, armed to the teeth gun nuts hellbent on infiltrating / violating school houses, houses of worship, supermarkets, movie theatres, concert halls / arenas, etc. Even Vladimir Putin could not resist challenging the Grim Reaper on their chosen, international theatre of war (Ukraine).
Bad enough, there’s been little shortage of the rest of our societal scourges, too. Rearing their ugly heads, once again, we’re witness to “ism” dominated class warfare, greed driven price gouging and mindless, meaningless culture wars, etc.
Worse yet, here within my Stateside homeland, the likely, guilty as hell Donald J. Trump still remains the at large, still unpunished, existential threat to Democracy; his Anti-American M.O. serving as a paradigm for his worldwide autocratic a-hole allies to unleash against their own beleaguered, oppressed populaces.
Even Little Donny winding up indicted in New York, just yesterday, re the hush money check he had paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels (allegedly in violation of campaign finance laws) won’t do much to ever fully rein him in. After all, even IF convicted, it’s unlikely that he’ll ever serve even one nanosecond within any brig, cage, can, cooler, clink, hoosegow, jail, jug, lockup, penitentiary, pokey, prison, slammer or stockade. And in this blogger’s opinion (once again) he’ll wind up evading the type of punishment which he actually deserves. And even that hollow victory can only embolden him.
Worst of all that would mean that Little Donny cannot be stopped from running for a second term come 2024; where win or lose, he will likely attempt another January 6th magnitude, violent, destructive and deathly coup designed to burn down Democracy.
So, as you have probably already surmised, under such trying, dismal circumstances, I’ve been having a rough time seeing exactly how a significant segment of humanity will ever wind up enjoying any meaningful future.
So, as for my own blog’s “future”? Well, my having written and posted, so far, only five times in 2023 (inclusive of this one), it should come as no shocker that what little traffic I had ever mustered, these past seven years, has almost completely vanished deep into the cyberspace “woods”. Essentially, this very essay is destined to be akin to a published, read only by me, word document.
While I possess little in-depth knowledge of how this platform’s algorithms function, I do know that my self-inflicted, site stagnation will, ultimately, prove stubborn to counteract.
Suffice to say, be you a WP head honcho or a former reader, nearly everybody else will have, long ago, already written me off.
Oh well, at the very least, I can still blow off steam whenever I “smash” that publish button.
At the very most, since nothing ever actually dies on the www, in a sense I will have achieved a modicum of interwebs immortality.
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Be humans Vaxxed OR Unvaxxed, We
can still shed and spread the batcrap
crazy contagious coronavirus which,
in turn, spawns new variants; which,
in turn, could, eventually, render the
available vaccines worthless; which,
in turn, will drag out the pandemic’s
needless suffering, illness and death!
HENCE… this easy as pie, cover your
nose and pie-hole/hole-up heads-up:
Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!
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CommonSenseTom 