Thursday, May 21, 2009

resist the fear

Stepping back from current events and news analysis for a couple of months while I completed The Move to a new place, I am resistant to being sucked back into the news cycle.

With a little detachment, the Swine Flu hysteria appeared as the circus it was. Any political bickering I caught wind of, well, who gives a F? Next week it'll be another Cheney reality-defying escapade.

And speaking of Dick, as Andrew Sullivan says, "Cheney-dead-enders will continue to stoke fear and division."

Today I say, I'm not getting sucked into the fear and reaction. I don't know what to make of all this shit. A calm, thoughtful mind will make better sense of it over time than a fearful, chaotic mind.