The Key Words Are  “Loving Souls.”

On September 13th and 16th of last year, I posted two tweets regarding Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling during the national anthem. I did not take a position on his patriotism. I only asked a (why) question in one post and stated a fact in another. The first was an attempt at setting the basis for a fruitful and meaningful conversation. It was after Bill O’Reilly’s take on history and his new book.  With this, l had to write a second post. In my second post, I used a metaphor. Figuratively speaking, stating he had a loud mouth, able to reach a large audience thereby causing a snowballing effect with what he says, with his ideology on life as insight and being the  authority (Controversy just like drugs can create a market of its own; of which he has corned.)  I also left out the hyphen and used a lower case (r) and put the (i)  before the (e) in O’Reilly’s name, a fishing technique.   As fishers know, it’s the tide, water temperature and sometimes luck, but mainly it’s the bait.  I am not well known on Facebook. Therefore I was fishing in unfamiliar waters.  Where you fish and what you’re fishing for, will determine what you catch. I caught me a human grouper.    I came under immediate attack, as Groupers feed on other fish.  First, stating I was not a historian and also I didn’t know how to spell. I never stated I was. The veracity of it all, I was a high school dropout because of racial bullying.  I had said that I had written a book and had read history since leaving school (meaning books) that didn’t coincide with what I was taught to believe. His hunger for a divisive confrontation overshadowed the fact he was being baited.

“Marketers of Discontent” is a chapter out of “The Wrecking Crew” by Thomas Frank.  Fake news has been around since before I was a child; The National Enquire and Globe magazines are the prime examples.  Negative campaigning, is another amenity for a Grouper, feeding on the unconscious. i.e., The Coffin Handbills 1828,  “Willie Horton 1988,” “Harry and Louise 1993,” “Hillary Clinton’s 3 am phone call 2008,” are just a few examples.  As a child, I roped learned the Preamble to the Constitution and can say it precisely today.  “Anything you practice you can get good at,” Denzel Washington. It has become common in our society to argue as opposed to listening to common sense reasoning because of what we’ve been “rope learned” to believe thru unconscious repetitive listening, exacerbated by hate.

Businesspeople tend to be conservatives. Therefore conservatism itself becomes a business. Political entrepreneurship, if you will.  In its embryonic form, seek out and pedal grievances to the like-minded. (*page 71.)

We have been influenced by Russia through Facebook through rope (negative) learning,  paid for with Russian Roubes.  The 45th continues to deny, and his base continues to believe.  He sounds like Jim Jones with a larger captive audience.  Continuously, as if he is still standing in the middle of 5th avenue.  Thereby deepening the divide, undercutting the ability for any conversations of substance.

I say to the 45th, even though he cares not to understand.  Sports, like the Military, is the fifth element after earth, air, fire, and water.   Men and women who listen and support each other as they repel hypothetical and repulsive forces that try to divide them are called comrades.  Camaraderie is the embodiment of teamwork, the quintessence of love, the product of an untethered soul. Something you can not destroy.

*”The Wrecking Crew,”  by Thomas Frank