CAUTION
Readers be aware.
High grade sunglasses are advised.
What follows is not all that brilliant.
It is
INTENSE!!
Dear All of Us,
There are more Conspiracy Theories threatening us today than there are toilets to
flush them down the drain, which is where they come from.
Nothing new except the malicious magnitude of present, pernicious, potty minds
and truth unsocial mouths.
"Nothing new," Example from my youth:
In the early 1950's the Trappist Monks founded a monastery in Berryville, VA.
To support themselves they baked Monks' Bread and sold it in the Greater
Washington, DC Area.
The surplus bread they sent to local towns in rural Virginia offering it for free.
No Takers.
"There's Catholic Truth Serum in that bread.
Them monks are trying to turn us Catholic."
True and terrible.
True and even more terrible "today":
The plague of falsehood fouling the media in our not so "right" now.
Noxious and putrid, it out does the worst of the pollutions in the air.
But breath in both we do.
Society sickens.
The media manipulates to get attention, a following and thus power and profit.
It's a contemporary take on the Roman emperors' connivance dulling to control
the Roman populace: "Give them bread and circus."
Commercial Control
Political Control
Both abusive,
Both lethal
The media merchants peddle new contortions/deceptions of truth
from political distortions,
to the latest from the local Cuckoo's Nest,
to slanting and slashing the news.
They trivialize our attention and awareness with inane and incessant messaging.
They mislead us with a cancer of misinformation, false values and preoccupations.
Their construct is a trough draining directly from the pigsty of Evil Empire.
They sell us soul sick.
The most dangerous conspiracy today is
the media itself and its Media Masters.
They are controlling us, setting us up for one hell of a down.
They focus on news, sports, politics, entertainment, advertising
and bastardize each.
They pervert truth and degrade ideal.
They preoccupy the public with trashy, low caliber "entertainment."
They make a religion and business of athletics.
They seduce us into brothels of consumerism and consumption.
Net result, a controlled, agitated, restless, dulled and dupped public and
a money orgy for the media lords and corporate sorts who bank roil them.
Factor in a wild run with AI and we have more than a problem!
These money pimps draw us away from the vast number of clean, good,
people and projects that are true blue and really newsworthy.
Those proliferate, we are rich in them, yet they are thrown under the media bus.
They are the real deal, yet they are ignored for prostitutions of pleasure,
possession and power.
For all the folly and filth media broad casts, there is great good news.
It is widespread across lands and peoples.
We find it vibrant in a plenty of faith traditions.
A superlative example from the Jewish Tradition is a wonderful man,
gifted and giving - Itzhak Perlman.
He's good news.
He is also one of the finest violinists gracing our time.
Some years ago, he was playing at Lincoln Center.
This world class violinist's walking is impaired by polio.
So, when he reached his place, he loosened his brace and extended his leg.
Now ready, the symphony began.
As Itzhak played one of his four violin strings snapped.
Everyone heard it.
The orchestra stopped.
Would he attach his braze and get a new string?
After a moment of thought, Itzhak signaled the conductor to continue.
Improvising and adapting, he played the rest of the symphony with three strings.
The audience was ecstatic in applause.
Perlman told them that our mission in life is to make music with
whatever is left to us.
That's front page.
In rural areas, small towns, sprawling suburbs, busy cities, there are dear,
beautiful people living real and right.
They make wondrous music.
In simple to intricate fashions they are furthering God's Good Creation
in harmonious ways.
It happens in homes, at work, in school, at Little League games, food pantries, at
prayer sessions, social action groups, on farms, in factories, and offices.
They are taking God at his word. That Word is Jesus,
"the Word made flesh",
"the way, the truth, and the life" (1)
So many, so really, are enfleshing that Word of God Good
in the neighborhoods of our shared now.
They have a good "way" to go about life.
They have a "truth" to be and count on.
They have a "life" to live and share.
All this is God Love real and realized. They are the
GOOD NEWS
local edition
Conspire means to "con" "spiritus," breath together.
That can be fresh.
That can be polluted.
Thank God for the fresh air of those making music with
what is left to them where they are and as they are.
Our spirituality is to breath with them,
make music with them. It's a grand,
God Good
CONSPIRACY
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So yes, now go ahead and turn on the air conditioner.
I admit to emitting intensity
and pray light.
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(1) John 1:14 and 14:6
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We simply must not allow
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Violin or not,
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to make music,
to further
the harmony of
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Love to all,
John Frank
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