It’s a Happening Thing …

Maybe it’s the heat or the times we all live in, but I can help think there is a deep confusion in my mind fueled by absurd news articles in the newspaper, all the cups of coffee, caffeine pills and memories of fueled by days of marijuana in wilderness.

What the hell is happening is the only question I keep asking myself. Is it mental illness, madness? And if so, is the madness in me or society? Why is everything so much a celebration of suburbia and white vinyl siding and so many modern maintance-free products designed to isolate us from reality? 

I was reading about the news that Gavin Newsome, the scumbag governor of California is rolling back that’s state’s environmental laws as the state embraces the policies of President Donald Trump. As I read the latest news about how the Trumpster is only making things worse and worse, as he grabs all the levers of power to make conspiracy theories the law of land.

If you don’t like the direction that Donald Trump is taking our country, why don’t you embrace on your-sleeve wokeness from under the eves of white vinyl and white-gypsum board cathedral cielings as you snack on organic-cookies wrapped in plastic? I mentioned the issues with my truck camper battery wire becoming disconnected, and all I see is ads for Chinese Jack-off battery boxes and grid-tied solar to woke energy to a Tesla.

I was looking at Google Maps the other day at the back roads of Pennsylvania, and an old run-down farmstead with a century and half old house and barn with beef cows mashing through the mud and well-blacked burn barrel from burning garbage next to the driveway. The old Ford 8N tractor from fifties sits in the background and a much newer Ford F-250 has a load of hay. I can smell the cows, diesel smoke and burnt plastic, it was on a real back road, in middle of BFE Pennsylvania.

I read yet more book about homesteading, sustainable building, and off-grid solar. I find sustainability to be a deeply confusing topic, like so many things in this world. I don’t think just because you eat organic food, wash out plastic bottles rather then have a blackened trash burner out back makes you more sustainable. But I also don’t think government should be allowing billion dollar companies to rape and pillage even more of our country for greater profit. Muddy cows in some hick town isn’t what is ruining our country.

I get it, white vinyl plastic is maintance free. It looks clean. Modern suburban houses don’t smell like cow shit and are pretended to be free of toxic chemicals that are spewed out of rednecks’ burn barrel. They are perfectly comfortable in winter and summer, with supposedly good insulation, heat pumps and air conditioning. The solar panels on the roof and Tesla in the driveway, are status symbols of how greenie the person really is. As the organic food containers ever so carefully cleaned that overflow the special blue bin that might get diverted from the landfill, but only if the MRF can find a market.

I am just confused. So confused by the world today that celebrates white vinyl and white bread. And says it’s not bad if you buy organic and put yogurt containers in the overflowing recycling bin. All while Trump is blowing through everything good or bad, woke or otherwise to remake the world into a series of conservative conspiracies. And I’m just watching and imagining the vibrant colors all around, like a lava lamp or other hot-oil projection lamp floating colors all around.