I just love that line that Heath Ledger says as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" only to realize that nothing is going to happen. So it is as I embark on my own journey of blogging. Over the past year, as I travel back and forth between Houston, where I work, and Wimberley where my wife and I live, there has been ample opportunity to think about life and to solve the world's problems.
Now that the marathon Presidential campaign is over with the elections last November, I sincerely hoped that people would calm down and get on with thier lives, but it seems to have gotten even crazier. I'm hearing people talk about how disasterous the Obama administration is going to be, how he is going to ruin the country even drive it into a civil war in 2 years. People I know are buying guns preparing for the worse.
Where is all this insanity coming from? The Internet, that's where. It's so easy for a person to publish their own speculation (case in point this blog) based on the thinnest of evidence or even none at all. I guess it's really true, if it's in print it has to be real. You don't have to offer proof, just find enough people who want to believe. It's like the statement that 83% of all statistics are made up on the spot. I have begun to just delete all my emails that the title hints at some warning of one kind or another. I have enough to deal with my own fantasies much less get sucked into someone elses.
What I believe I am seeing is the hidden racist peaking out from behind people's facades. I had hoped people were getting past all that. Except for the extremists, most people I hear talk about what a disaster it was to elect Obama won't come straight out and say it's because he is black. They talk around the issues and try to hide thier racist view of him in criticism of his Presidency even before he's hardly begun. What happened to this grace period, the Honeymoon, we've given all past Presidents? Come on folks, we even granted W that courtesy. Like them or hate them, you have to admit that the Obama's are going to restore some dignity and style to the office of the President of the United States.
Well, I better pull back before I go totally over the edge in my first posting. Hate to crash and burn before I even get started. So as my favorite talking head used to say..."And that's the way it is...February 27, 2009"
Now that the marathon Presidential campaign is over with the elections last November, I sincerely hoped that people would calm down and get on with thier lives, but it seems to have gotten even crazier. I'm hearing people talk about how disasterous the Obama administration is going to be, how he is going to ruin the country even drive it into a civil war in 2 years. People I know are buying guns preparing for the worse.
Where is all this insanity coming from? The Internet, that's where. It's so easy for a person to publish their own speculation (case in point this blog) based on the thinnest of evidence or even none at all. I guess it's really true, if it's in print it has to be real. You don't have to offer proof, just find enough people who want to believe. It's like the statement that 83% of all statistics are made up on the spot. I have begun to just delete all my emails that the title hints at some warning of one kind or another. I have enough to deal with my own fantasies much less get sucked into someone elses.
What I believe I am seeing is the hidden racist peaking out from behind people's facades. I had hoped people were getting past all that. Except for the extremists, most people I hear talk about what a disaster it was to elect Obama won't come straight out and say it's because he is black. They talk around the issues and try to hide thier racist view of him in criticism of his Presidency even before he's hardly begun. What happened to this grace period, the Honeymoon, we've given all past Presidents? Come on folks, we even granted W that courtesy. Like them or hate them, you have to admit that the Obama's are going to restore some dignity and style to the office of the President of the United States.
Well, I better pull back before I go totally over the edge in my first posting. Hate to crash and burn before I even get started. So as my favorite talking head used to say..."And that's the way it is...February 27, 2009"
