Wasted Time

... is mostly what Twitter, podcasts and news sites are.

I'm only two days into my digital fast, but it's dawning on me that all of the current hyperventilating about race has two important characteristics.

1. It's not a topic I'd discuss if left to my own devices.
2. It offers nothing of value.

I blogged before that this is all pagan in nature.

Like sacrificing goats to Demeter, the riots and demonstrations are an act of paganism - they are useless appeals to things that don't exist. That much was instantly obvious when no one rallied on the side of the Minneapolis cop what killed George Floyd. If there's only one side in a shouting match, you're not having a heated argument, you're having a mental breakdown like a schizophrenic drug addict screaming at the sky.

While people marched and held signs and knelt and begged for forgiveness, I wondered what we'd do 6 months from now when it all happened again. There is no Demeter and all we did was kill some goats. What's our encore, throwing virgins into volcanoes? Nothing changed because the underlying culture didn't change. There are no more intact, traditional families now than there were before. Without them, civilization crumbles.

Yesterday, it dawned on me that the demand for racial purification means the progressives want us to sacrifice monuments, buildings, businesses and symbols until couples get married before they have children. Since the sacrifices have no connection to the desired outcome, this is going to go on for a long, long time. 

The pagan sacrifices will end, not when the nuclear family has been restored in our culture, but when the people making the sacrifices have finally had enough. I have no idea how many years we'll have to go before a sufficiently large majority finally ask for some kind of repayment for their kneeling, hashtags, lost monuments, suppressed symbols, difficult conversations, race training at work, canceled friends and enforced silence in public, but you've got to figure that's building up, day by day.

In the meantime, why not talk and think about things that matter. Like new smoker / grill combos?

We just bought an Oklahoma Joe Rider DLX smoker / grill from Lowe's. It gets delivered on Tuesday. I can't wait!