Have We Become a Nation of Pig Beauty Apologists?

Not that it’s any of my business particularly, but I have a couple of thoughts about “woke” that I’d like to run by you for your esteemed consideration. I think there’s a good chance that underneath the Republican bullshit about the poor old unsuspecting word “woke,” there are some real nuggets of wisdom we shouldn’t ignore completely, merely because some often offensive Other thought smart thoughts. Besides, I suspect that the part of what those folks are calling “woke” is really a stupid part of the “We all be one big old feelings protected family. Kumbaya!” crowd and other equally challenged demographics on both sides of the great Left/Right divide. Maybe what the anti-woke wing of the Freedom Circus is trying to say (but lack the verbal mastery to spit out), is there are word salads which just do not make sense simply because they do not define reality but rather attempt to put lipstick on all their pigs. That is something that has gradually become all too real in our society. I fear we’ve advanced into a nation of pig beauty apologists.

There’s nothing at all wrong with making your pigs look more beautiful for your personal enjoyment or idle amusement, but that will not change the pig or the pig’s nature. No kidding. I get that neoliberal, pot smoking, LL Bean-wearing, Birkenstock-sandaled Sensitives are notorious for wanting to paint over zits so they can pretend they aren’t there. They don’t want to offend anyone with honest observations about anything that person is doing or experiencing. Of course, that so-called social awareness is a transactional plea to not mention the possible offender’s own offensiveness. The whole dance is so cute and you can even get matching pretend porcelain figurines depicting each of the various steps of the original line dance. Complete collector sets are on sale and in original boxes. Order you``r starter pack today for only $69.99, plus shipping and handling. Please allow six to eight weeks for delivery. Go to [email protected] to see our complete line of gift items. Perfect for Mother’s Day.

You might have noticed that everybody already knows all the steps to that dance.

On the other hand, it’s entirely understandable that ultra-conservative, martini guzzling, Brooks Brothers wearing, Magnanni Corey shod, White Nationalist Theocratic Dream Teamers are just as notorious for ripping the tape off the scar just for the buzz. Of course, they get a better buzz for ripping your tape off than they get by ripping their own tape off. If you don’t have tape on your scar, well any body part with hair will do. These folks are not socially advanced to the point of understanding that social success equals personal success which equals social success and so on. They wear special blinders that keep them focused on the closest obstacle on which they can place blame. Success or failure is transactional for them and measured by dollar amount, never by the benefit to humanity. You know, they’re fiscally responsible for the cost of important things, things like kids complaining that someone or some organization they’re affiliated with is doing something they think is thoughtless, inconsistent and murderous. Those damned kids are causing social unrest and should be shot, tear gassed, drawn and quartered, then jailed in Gitmo for daring to observe that inconvenient-to-us reality. And that ain’t woke! So, just go on with your fake news. I don’t.

But you see, that’s the problem both the neoliberal and the ultraconservative suffer. They both see reality through the most useful and convenient lens available, even if the lens isn’t even real. Don Poorelone lies at about 6 gallons a minute. CrossFit Karen imagines motives for events. Her imagined motives are based on imagined meanings to events that are perceived with less than complete data concerning situational reality. Her conspiracies come in seven-league clips because of those knee-high boots. How else can you explain why she can show up whenever Dark Brandon talks wearing Halloween disguises. How far out does she have to go to find those getups? She needs them boots to cover that many conspiracy leagues.

MagaMike claims he talks with God. But the boy ain’t got no stone tablets, not even broken ones, and that reverse porn app on his phone can only be there to remind him not to think of porn and other unclean acts as a daily meditation. Dark Brandon walked off into that unholy mess between Palestine and Israel. Dark thought he could trust Bibi to be a fair and honest humanitarian. Bibi thought Dark would look the other way when he was even more primitively brutal than Hamas had been to start this voyage into the darkest of inexcusable human cruelties. Why? Because there is a lot in it for Bibi and he might throw some military equipment biz Dark’s way if he plays along. Well, Dark’s getting the business, sure enough, but it is not the business he had on his bucket list.

According to a high-ranking Floridian describing the state’s official position on banning whatever the word “woke” signifies, both sides of the political aisle would be overly woke and living in a word salad with way too much balsamic vinegar. And for some reason, an overabundance of wasabi instead of seasoning. Although I do have to give the Wokest Trophy to the Freedom Circus and their attendant fan club for showing the world the significance of that “woke” word in action. Jr. Jordan is the Sergeant at Arms of that whole “protect the Don with wokeness on an industrial level” project. Jr. has attempted to use his position to interfere with the prosecutions of the Don in Georgia and in New York. Poor Jr. He was rebuffed. I guess we could sum up his endeavors by observing that Jr. Jordan has officially replaced Brock Purdy as Mr. Irrelevant.

Weigh CrossFit Karen saying that MagaMike is following a uniparty agenda when he protects American interests by funding FISA with the West’s pushback against authoritarianism. I think that weighs the same as code for “Daddy Vladdy told Daddy Donny that Daddy Vladdy doesn’t have a mommy because people say he murders people and it’s not fair to tell everybody cause no one really, really, really knows for sure. Could be that all Vladdy wants from Donny is his pussy grabbing patents. I hear that murdering dictators can sometimes experience prejudicial and constant left swiping as an occupational hazard. Besides, it could have been an accident that airplane blowed up. And sometimes it’s really slippery around windows high up on buildings. Shit happens, ya know. I don’t know what scale you’d use to weigh the shit that Ms. Karen and the Aspiring Cracker Cosplay Corps spreads but it sure seems like it was once some kind of vodka-laced borscht, although when they translate it there are noticeable losses in practical relevance.

Ms. Karen is only a harbinger of the craziness and stupidity to come. Just the other day the Washington State GOP agreed to take a stand against Democracy¹. Really! They really did. The spokeswoman actually said, “We are devolving into a Democracy.” With the implication: We do not want that. That’s baad. Out loud. In front of God and everybody. The Italian economic historian Carlo Cipolla said, “A stupid person is far more dangerous, especially if the individual was born into the elite class. Their total damage capacity is infinite within their potential position as bureaucrats, generals, and even politicians.” Don Poorelone is too scary to mention from that perspective. Then add what Yuval Harari warned, “One thing that history teaches us is that we should never underestimate human stupidity. It’s one of the most powerful forces in the world.”

That’s the force Don Poorelone, CrossFit Karen, Jr. Jordan, Gomer Pyle, Chipper Roy, Andy Biggs, Robert Kennedy Jr., Coach Tommy, Josh Hawley, Matty Boi, and even Brett Kavanaugh, the beer-drinking judge, and the rest of the Freedom Circus all use as a recipe for half-baking an idea that will allow them to hold on to their tenuous power. To put a ribbon around this and a bow on top, let’s say that people who live in woke houses shouldn’t throw Truths or X’s or even talking points. Much less irrevocable rulings from the highest bench in the land.

Case in point. Don Poorelone is currently on trial for falsifying business records to hide from the public that he screwed a porn star. I guess he was embarrassed because he paid for it and she wasn’t a teenage beauty queen. It seems he thought that information about the busty star would hurt his presidential pipe dream. But who knows? How woke is it for him to say that he’s being persecuted by the Biden Justice department because he didn’t share his experience on Reddit? If I look at these events without a trace of “woke,” I have to conclude that people have reason to be against the entire Poorelone name and brand. The guy has more than one strike against him. It’s going to get way worse before he dare think about better. Hell, it doesn’t look like he’ll get on base ever again. Poorelone is a wannabe mobster who wants to surround himself with a truckload of stupid people who will do what he tells them to do simply because they would otherwise slowly circle around anything as they waste away, as turkeys will. Good luck with that, Don.

But then there is a decidedly delightful probability that the High Priest of the Floridian Woke Authority may have unknowingly (a diplomatic word meaning stupidly) planted the seeds of woke destruction by pointing out how stupid it is to derive status by bullying anyone who understands that jarring changes in the status quo are normal, by claiming they must be woke. Well, yeah. I guess that’s right. So?

This blog was first published on May 19, 2024.

The Wright’s View is a blog written by John Worthington and is presented by The Business of Forging Agreement.

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References

1. Westneat, D. (2024, April 24). The WA GOP put it in writing that they're not into democracy. The Seattle Times. Retrieved May 18, 2024, from https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/the-wa-gop-put-it-in-writing-that-theyre-not-into-democracy/