"What is Truth?" On an Earth where in our self-importance we can't remember that we are specks on a speck and our primary sense toward Others (i.e., Neighbor, Samaritan) is hatred, hostility, violence, my personal sense is of having lived into the Twilight Zone. Governments actually speaking of preparing for nuclear war, are we crazy? yes, we are, it's not arguable.  And what's the problem? It's Certainty, religion, religious Certainty, tribal Certainty. We are insane. The Inquisition. The Crusades. Christian Anti-semitism. Radical Islam against all others. How have Earthlings come to this point? In Earth Time, it's been developing for eons and here we are.  Go online and read the news source JOE with its startling presentations of True Facts. There are True Facts and False Facts and preposterous exaggerations. Government: lies, delusions and self-delusions perceived and told as True Fact, and sycophants afraid for their jobs of offering difference. If you...

So, maybe a journal entry instead of a Facebook post. What do we know-nothing ants, or fleas, need to say? Nothing: everything has been said, and is being said, and will be said that needs to be said and that isn't worth saying. War again, and stirs my memory when I was twenty-seven years old, of hearing my professor of American government say that the role of the congressional minority in warTime is to criticize and second-guess the administration. So, I expect that and sure enough there's nothing else the minority can do. In fact, with an authoritarian executive branch there's nothing the legislative can do anyway except go along or get ignored. I don't need to add to the screaming and shouting. But from me, for self-expression, maybe that people don't learn much or take much from history or experience - - what would the present be like if someone had killed Adolf Hitler in the nineteen-thirties or earlier or later? I have heard Germans who were there say Hitler d...