The face-mask of history

History isn't the nightmare from which we're trying to awake, history is the news we're hoarding and will continue to hoard until the end of time, or the end of this present presidential era, whichever comes first.

Watching tv news last night, seeing the 'team' in the White House expound solemly on life and death issues they don't have the sleightest idea of understanding, I heard the bleating of lost sheep buried by a sudden unexpected summer snow storm in a remote Icelandic landscape. Watching and listening to these 'leaders', I too wanted to die! 

The scene was not dissimilar from one of those Dateline NBC episodes in which an honorable person is mysteriously murdered in real life and the case is solved in 48 minutes, including 5 commercial breaks, by a warm-hearted small-town detective named Jared, with anchorman Lester Holt narrating.

It's true that they don't make idiots like they used to; these are new improved made-for-tv idiots taught to lie while looking directly into the camera. The lies have the vice-presidential seal of approval. The vice-president is a solemn man, a good Christian who taunts socialists and sends out fund-raising appeals on behalf of The Republican Party during a national pandemic. The president, commander-in-chief of carnal fornication, winds the vice-president up like the toy he is so that he can spew meaningless solemnities the fair-and-balanced broadcast news network can beam out to all the poor saps in their Lazy-Boy recliners, those good but ignorant folks who trust in god and country and believe everything these idiots say. 

So sad, so sad as the president often puts things.

James Joyce, where are you at this momentus time in human history? Are you watching this burlesque show on any one of many tv outlets, channel-surfing no doubt to try to find any semblance of intelligent civilization? Better wear your face-mask, as instructed by our leaders, so that this present time has less chance of infecting the future.

Custom face-mask to be worn by consumers of network news, designed and hand-sewn by Lea Ann Roddan and modeled by the author.