Musing about Boggling Times

I have no idea how that title jumped out of the mind boggle. Moreover, how the heck did I just come up with boggle?

Is not as if the word itself is in the daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly vocabulary use.

So how? One could muse for hours over that conundrum or just go with the flow and accept the esoteric implications of this strangeness of thought that is so boggling.

Being astonished, incredulous or baffled when trying to imagine something is truly a boggle. It is suggested that boggle aptly describes current times across the planet especially for person such as myself.

How am I boggled? A few months ago I was accused of being a Dirty Centrist by a family member. At the time it didn’t really bother me too much and it was brushed off as the ranting of a young adult caught up in their ideological pursuit. We can get quite tunnel visioned about these things at that age.

This label did end up bothering me as the mind refused to let it go. I dived into the meaning of “dirty centrist” in order to understand the thoughts that drove this zealot like attack.

Apparently, I am one of those that sits on the fence and sways to the easier side of opinion, to not have my own opinion about anything, to go with the prevailing flow of the majority and never to take a stand on anything whether it be moral or ethical.

Initially, it was amusing to think that someone who has known me for many years could possibly see me like this, a hollow man. Then the boggle set in with a simmering current of anger that resembled an undertow trying to drag me away from rational thought into a strictly emotive existence.

Maybe that was his aim at the time, to drag out the emotive response, to dump me off the so called fence to get tangled in the mud and roots of the ideologues and be forced to take a side. I only sit on the fence to get a good view of the ideological madness at the extremes.

Generally I stroll in a quite large paddock verdant and lush in the middle where the air is clear, the sky is blue with white fluffy clouds cruising through and at least one cow nourishing itself on the verdant green.

Cow is certainly happy to be up close and personal as I stare into its eyes that are deep wells into an endless and timeless universe. Try it sometime and a minute in time will be an hour and beyond while taking the soul anywhere it wants.

Unfortunately the verdant green is shrinking rapidly and the cow is in serious danger. The stark unilateral monolithic grey ideology of the far left is still intact as it will always be. After all they are the zealots of the cause. As for the rest of the left, especially in the good ole USA, it is head hunting season from the now empowered right.

We now graze in our dwindling patch of green, uncomfortably watching the word bombs and threats of intimidation getting lobbed every day with the range finders of hate and vitriol becoming more precise.

The paddock to the right is now resembling an advancing firestorm hellscape leaving behind the charred remains of free speech, mutual respect, independence of thought, scientific endeavor and freedom just to be.

The firestorm is spotting many miles in advance spitting down hatred, misogynism of the manosphere, wilful ignorance mashed up with every conspiracy theory imaginable, violence of the ideological variety with a christian religious bent driving it all.

Be dammed anyone that voices out against this as the storm troopers will be working hard to find a tree (metaphorically) to hang you from.

All this from the same mob that screamed cancel culture when they were governed by the left and centre of politics. This mob has taken cancelling to the stratosphere and want to take it beyond until the rest of us wilt and burn to powder under their onslaught.

Is it a Mob narcissism driving this enabled by the most narcisistic at the top of the far right pyramid?

They insist that they are right about everything from women’s rights to enforcing conspiracy fringe beliefs into policy and law.

They insist that they are masters of the global universe and are the font of all knowledge even though that knowledge is based on innuendo, inference and bad science.

They insist that they are great and glorious and that somehow the rest of us must respect, fear, obey and roll over on our backs at their largess while they drop bombs in foreign lands, insist other Countries must invest in more War machinery and slap tariff madness on anyone that doesn’t agree.

Boggling indeed to one that pursues peace, love, happiness and mutual respect as a standard life mantra.

I will forever continue to shout in the path of those that aggressively tell me to shut up and obey them and their ideology whether from the extremes of the left or currently from the severe debilitating and silencing virus of the far right.

A Dirty Centrist? Yes and I am firm in my ideology. There is nothing to muse about in this regard. Boggling of the mind is no more as I assert my fundamental right to speak out as I will continue to do until the last breath is exhaled.

POSTSCRIPT

Since those big bombs were dropped on Iran, my social media feed has been inundated by USA based Sites and Pages, some official like the White House, Stephen Miller, Charlie Kirk to name a few at the high profile end and backed up by MAGA and Christian Nationalist Pages with great praise of their great and glorious leader.

Woe to anyone such as myself that choose to not follow their grovelling praise, rhetoric and propaganda. The rabid hordes descend in all their insulting glory. Certainly absolutely nothing Christian in the way they seek to demolish a reasoned opinion counter to their narrative.

They have created a one way online universe. I do speculate about the relationship between Trump and Zuckerberg and what may influence the Meta algorithms to enhance the one way propaganda. Scary indeed for any other freedom of thought, writing and action.