KAOS and Control

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Back in the 60s there was a TV show (a sitcom) called "Get Smart". It was a funny spy show. Don Adams played Maxwell Smart -- agent 86 -- (a bumbling "good guy" spy) and Barbara Feldon played his partner (and later wife) agent 99. They both worked for an organization called "Control" and they fought an agency (the "bad guys") called "KAOS".

This past week or so, we have been experiencing "KAOS" and we need a bit of Control. But if we allow the criminals to control our brains, to tell us we are evil and we have to allow their evil to hold sway in this time of anarchy, we will lose our freedom, we will lose our liberty and then this country won't be anything special. The 250 year "experiment" will end a failure, a failure for our inability to right ourselves from this skewed perspective where good is bad, right is wrong, and the book "1984" is treated not as a cautionary tale but as a bible of how to gain power.

After over 3 months of "lockdown" -- imprisoning good citizens, average people who contribute to society by working at their jobs, supporting their families, enjoying time together and communing with G-d even though the houses of worship are closed -- felons are out there destroying what little is left of our business districts.

To add to this fear-mongering, a man is killed by police, well, more accurately a man is killed by a policeman and three more watched and did nothing. All four, last I heard, were arrested and charged. So the wheels of justice are turning. They may be turning slowly, but they are turning.

So what is the answer to all this? What is the answer to just about everyone in this country agreeing that this was a travesty, that these officers should be put in prison? They can't have that -- they have to create controversy. So they riot. They loot (and if you think the word "loot" is racist then you are a racist because the only way to think that "loot" is a racist word is if you think only black people loot). They set small businesses (and larger businesses who hire a lot of people) on fire. They deal the death knell blow to businesses that are already reeling from the "mock-down". And when these people are rightly arrested for their felonies, we are told it's obvious they would do this (the "soft" racism of lowered expectations") and we should protest the arrests.

Celebrities, who are trying to save their homes, their wealth and their skin by looking "good" to the mob, (and are so guilt-ridden for nothing) are donating money to bail out criminals who were arrested destroying people's homes and businesses, the shops where people work and earn a living to support and feed their families. And what do these people have to offer in return? Chaos, destruction, thievery, even murder.

I agree with one of the videos I saw -- these celebrities should be taking that money and doing some good with it. Why don't they donate to a fund to help the small businesses rebuild? After all, their support of these "causes" emboldens the criminals (yes, they are criminals -- they are setting fires, they are stealing, they are beating people, yes, they are criminals, even felons). The more they are emboldened, the worse they get, the more people lose their businesses, their jobs, their homes, their lives.

If that doesn't ease their "white guilt" maybe they could take some of that money and pay tutors to teach under-educated people to read, to write, to do even just simple arithmetic? Maybe they could teach them to keep a checkbook, to cook healthy food for their families (on a budget, of course), teach them a trade.

How is destroying helping poor people get out of poverty? Oh, you all don't care? Black Lives Don't Really Matter to you. You just want to destroy to avenge George Floyd? I see. I suspected that for a long time.