Got Writer's Block

Typically the writings found here are started two to three days before the publishing date and are then published the day after. This piece was started halfway throughout the day before the intended publishing date with the intended content of:

 

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While silly and on point, this homage to the earliest days of technical manuals by the likes of IBM, HP, and Sun Micro Systems seemed lackadaisical at best. So, the topic for exploration became self evident to this author; when considering the topic for this writing. Eventually settling on the one being presented because two distinct challenges surfaced in the subject line choice: a) too many topics that are interesting has created a cluttered mental closet and b) the mental processing of a recent event of a personal nature for the writer.

 

Starting with the latter, item B, this is a personal situation and has been deemed not fit for public broadcast and/or public consumption at this time.

 

Looking now to item A, ‘so many topics, so little time’ was also top-of-mind for this author. The act of gas-lighting is, the presentation of information to an individual or group in such a way as to make that/those person(s) doubt what they understand ‘reality’ is. This now seems to have become the normal course of action for the last ten years if not longer by many of those who can impart influence on the masses.

 

Dear reader, please recall almost every major news story in the last few years. Consider the consistency of any story throughout its unfolding and the seemingly ever shifting facts, couple that with how far off the mark the earliest conclusions ended up being when compared to the end of the story. The phrase ‘here is what we know so far’ has been replaced with ‘an anonymous source close to the situation has told us’. The proverbial ‘narrative’ cart has been placed far in ahead of the horse’s mouth; if the reader is not old enough to recall the old saying ‘straight from the horse’s mouth’, it is strongly suggested that they Google it. (https://gprivate.com/62g7m)

 

An after thought:

A Socialist sneers at Industrialist in a fancy car demanding if the man knows how many families the price of his car could feed. The Industrialist responds that he isn’t sure because he doesn’t know how many people fed their families because they got the work to build the car, he doesn’t know how many people fed their families by making the tires, how many miners fed their families by digging up the copper to make the wires, the number truckers who fed their families by transporting the car, the number of families that were fed by extracting the oil that was converted to petrol, or the number of families fed by all the maintenance people along the way – though it does seem like a lot, now that I think about it…