Slowly I am finding a few small cracks in the big smooth wall that stands in the way of my being extant on any map at all.

I doubt very much that one little thing like this will bring in a single more view, much less a subscriber, follower … but … it didn’t feel sleazy or onerous to go there. I even had a kind of fun. So yeah, okay.

I guess it’s like this. Around the time my mom was born, if you wanted to be an actor you went to California, and you hung out or even worked in a place like Schwab’s Drugstore, chasing the longshot hope of being discovered. If they let you go to an audition, you went and did it and did your best, against odds of hundreds or thousands to one.

If one thing didn’t pan out you did twenty, forty, sixty more.

For the majority it still didn’t work, at all, and they waited tables or parked cars until the end of their days.

But nowadays the situation is different. It’s true that you’re competing against a much bigger pool of aspirants. But it’s also true that you don’t have to be pretty, or even willing to leave the house, to have a shot at leaving a mark on the culture and even bringing in a vague trickle of cash.

You just have to figure out a way to play the game, that not only works, but doesn’t fry your soul in the process. It’s definitely harder than that makes it sound. But I don’t believe it’s completely impossible.

Not even for me.

Alright then. So I’ve quasi-promised to keep the political rage out of this verbal hatchery, and I’ve been pretty good about it, even if those recent videos cranked the fury up to eleven a time or two.

So calmly, oh so calmly, let me just mention the story of Dr. Aaron Kheriaty.

He spent 15 years as a professor in the School of Medicine at UC Irvine, and was Director of their program in Medical Ethics.

But that ended quick, a little over a year ago, when he challenged the University’s new rule about needing to get a Covid jab to stay employed. Challenged it, by the way, in court, in a lawsuit that is of course dragging on to the present day with no end in sight.

There’s plenty of good information in the story about how know-nothing anti-vaxxers like this medical doctor are now being vindicated as being on the right side after all, as the conspiracy of silence between politicians and capitalists starts slowly to crack.

For me though, the best parts come later, when Dr. Kheriaty tries to explain WHY we were lied to yet again, and why so many of his colleagues went along with the authoritarian response to the pandemic in spite of fact that there wasn’t, and still isn’t, any real scientific evidence that the damned shot did any good at all. No evidence that it protected anyone. No evidence that it prevented transmission. Counter-evidence to the claims that it was at least harmless.

You won’t be surprised to learn that money was involved. Federal funding for research … uh-huh. Instead of “following the science”, the vast majority of the good smart people, even medical professionals, followed the side of their bread that was buttered by big pharma and careerist hacks like good old Grandpa Fauci.

All that is necessary for the forces of evil to triumph, is for enough good germans to do nothing, or maybe even speak out in favor of evil, if their mortgages and college funds depend on it.

And for too few to place the public good above profit, and get fired for it.

Ultimately this is why, 95 times out of 100, Moloch wins.

The Machine isn’t broken, it’s fixed. In favor of the rich and powerful, which ever way you turn.

This is what makes liberty and justice for all so elusive, and equality into a pipe dream, on the regular, around here.