Rapturous Delirium

 Simplicity can SOMETIMES beget a Rapturous Delirium.  I've been Guilty of such Spiritual Extravagance.  There are Exquisite Times when there is "No Self and No Thought of Self", where Ego-Driven Ambition is expressed by Beast Of Burden Elegance.   Here it is where 'I crank rope, I draaaag Rock' exists as Primal SECURITY, an Envelope of Corporeal Exactitude meaning Every Fiber of Muscle and Every Brain-wave Neutron is UNIFIED by a Cosmic Volition that has as ITS Source > the Tao.   Here it is where Simplicity EQUALS Truth, and since Truth IZ the Tao, Simplicity, then, EQUALS The Truth.

I have characterized the American Divide as being Cataclysmically Tectonic meaning the Folks of trumpism exist on a Psychological 'Continent' far Far A          WAAAAY from the Mentally Contiguous U.S.  I can't help myself --- I must use 'Fault'.  There comes a point at which explanations, descriptions and theories CANNOT 'bridge' the Distance between these 'Continents'.  Here it is where a "First Brick or Stone MUST be laid to BEGIN to "Bridge the Divide".  Here it is where this Bridge MUST be Built ON THE LEVEL in order for "Eye to Eye" Vision to be achieved.  

Rock Steady........Steady as She goes....

Lynyrd Skynyrd

 I just took a 'Music Break'   >  <   I dug out Lynyrd Skynrd's "Gold and Platinum" one of the GREATEST Double-Disc Sets of ALL TIME.  I loaded "Simple Man", the 5th Tract on DISC TWO.  Just so you know,,  "Sweet Home Alabama" is Tract 7 on DISC ONE.  

When mite-ee Joe Biden defended his State University Education as being just as "Viable" as the Hoity of Toity Ivy League's,  my Mind and Heart damn-near  rup   tured.  My University Education was State of Connecticut Provided.  Did I consider it EQUAL to that of Brown or Yale ?    The Deal with Ivy League you get FULL PROFESSORS in FRESHMAN Classes, whereas at UConn, we got Grad Students and the Like.  Then there's THE STUDENTS ARE DIFFERENT.  It's a whole Different Universe.

Simplicity as VIRTUE is Civilization-al HALLMARK of the South.  MOST of Us are excruciatingly aware that to extol a Simple Life in the North MAY reflect a Submission to prevailing Economic Causation.  The North VALUES Civilization-al SOPHISTICATION which was BEAUTIFULLY Characterized by Witherspoon in "Sweet...Alabama".   

The Antebellum South was itself Characterized by the Production of RAW [Simple] Goods which were shipped or transported to the NORTH where they were 'Refined' by a technologically SUPERIOR Industrial Sophistication.   South meant Simple -- North meant Sophisticated.  Simple = Inferior  >>  Sophisticated  =  Superior.  

Legally Fond

 Reese 'makes no bones' about her Northern Elite-Ism.  Her scorn and contempt for down-home small-time coots and indigents is ruthlessly projected by her Educated Regency.  The Locals can manage only a, "Well ain't YOU a Hoity Toity".  You can see that Reese REVELS in her Northern "Royalty" which only FURTHERS the Locals' Scorn and Contempt viewing her as TRAITOR to Southern Civilization.  Reese's depiction of Northern Supremacy is exceedingly NATURAL, upsettingly so, given her portrayal of Material Girl in her "Legally Blonde" where her characterizations are cartoonishly 'forced'.  Keep in mind, she is from Louisiana >>> There should NOT be 'anything Natural' about her efforts to project Northern Ascendancy.  THIS is why she is SO 'melt-worthy' --- she can Act.  

But I digress.   

Her Mom reprimands Reese, "I didn't want you to be like me" --- as if the Down Home Make A Simple Life is some-sort of Devastation-laden ATROCITY.   Reese was parentally Brain TATTOOED with Socio-Economic REVULSION that could be neutralized ONLY by a Salvation located in ELSEWHERE.  

But wait, there's more.....

...gits to goin'...

 Reese represents the cliche 'small town girl heads to the Big Apple seeking Fame and Fortune'.  Reese makes GREAT EFFORT to CONCEAL her backwoods-backwater TRUE Identity that she may gain Northern ACCEPTANCE of her STOLEN Fraudulent Identity of Southern Belle Fashion Intellectual.  Josh, maintains his TRUE Identity, Brown Eyed Southern Boy, who is Driven by an Ambition seemingly founded on Un-Requited Love--as if--Intra-Personal Financial Success would weaponize his marriage Frenzy to the point of being "LOOK AT ME NOW !!!" .  Indeed, not only did he have "Something To Prove" to Reese,  he had a LARGER OBLIGATION to his Self.  On the COSMIC Scale lurches Josh's Belief that The SOUTH is ALSO a Land RICH in Opportunity >>  that you do NOT have to travel to the HATED North to find and manufacture Personal Wealth.

This 'Hatred of the North' affords diabolical Serenity for Southern Southerners.  Reese, however, does NOT Believe that the South is anything BUT a backwater-backwoods SWAMP of cesspoolic lethargy and domestic paucity.  It is the NORTH, she Believes, that can afford her BIG CITY INDUSTRY.  

Since Josh is "goin' nowhere FAST" she abandons her marriage vows and "gits to goin' ".

Reese Witherspoon

 I will NEVER 'declare' that Reese Witherspoon is 'my girl' mainly bc, like Susan Sarandon, Reese aint EVA gonna make it into Outer Space Sci-Fi.  I allow myself IRRITATION bc she graduated from Stanford DESPITE being 'born and bred' in Louisiana .   I hold no such bias toward Matt Damon, Boston Born and Bred AND Harvard Educated.  The Thing About Reese is "Sweet Home Alabama" one of my ALL TIME FAVS and Homespun Comfort Flicks.  Ever Guy ON EARTH sides with Josh Lucas, a supposed grossly non-itinerant ne're-do-well, fucked over by a supposedly heartless almost dirt-poor Southern Belle Wanna-Be.  The Film iz Multi-levels layered, and 'covers' Northern Blue and Southern Gray 'Postures' with a humorous dexterity that generates an Acceptance of Cinema Actuality which is tuned to Cosmic American Stereotypes.  This is NOT >> 'a bad Thing' ---quite the Opposite in fact.

There's a Scene and a LINE that Spoon delivers that FOR-EVER aligns her with RIGHTEOUS CALIBRATED FORTITUDE.  As she spills out of a Local Saloon Josh berates her with his most INTIMATE Indignation >>>  he whip-scorns, "You think you're so much BETTER than the rest of us".  Hunched over in a drunken fold she lashes, "I AM BETTER".  

There IT is.  North versus South  with NO Victory even CONCEIVABLE.

...t-rue-th

 I have vented, in a somewhat profoundly Feverish Ill-Manner, that the Insurrectionists were Moronically Imbecilic.  That really WASN'T giving them their 'Just Due'.  Most of Us aging Hippie-fied Geriatrics don't Understand HOW a 'Peaceful Protest' escalated to 'Siege' Mentality >>> I mean shit, WHY storm the Capitol Building KNOWING that ULTIMATELY their efforts would be NEUTRALIZED given the TRUTH of Election Results.  CLEARLY the  'Truth'  had   NO  DIRECT  NOR  RELATIVE SIGNIFICANCE.  Their Demand was for the OVERTHROW of LIBERAL 'Truth' in order to supplant It with Redneck Radicalized Sensation >> the ONLY 'Truth' that Mattered.  

They BELIEVED the Lies-as-Truths generated by Their TRUSTED Others.  The Election was Stolen, they really DID Win and by a fucking LANDSLIDE no less.  So it was that in order to express their PATRIOTIC OBLIGATION TO UPHOLD THE TRUTH OF THE NATION there was NO Recourse save to March On and Breech the Capitol Building 'Fortifications'.  'Truth' HAD-TO-BE Defended cuz >>THAT'S<<   THE AMERICAN WAY  !!! 

I mean, you can see that rite ?

The Lies ARE the Truths

 'Real' Explanations and 'Real' Understanding will NOT benefit Those whose 'World View' is INCAPABLE of 'Accepting' Truth as 'Real'.  I have argued elsewhere that Humankind has done quite Well WITHOUT Truth AND Understanding---technically, there was NO DIFFERENCE from a Planet with a Moon of Blue Cheese or a Planet orbited by a Celestial Satellite---Civilization was NOT dependent upon Every solitary Earthling's Grasp of Flat Earth vs. Round World Topography.  Indeed, when Science tried to Explain and promote Understanding, what transpired was REAL Quasi-Academic Suffering which then percolated downward to Street And Gutter FEAR.  Don't go to Far else you'll Fall Off.

Information upon which Life is foundationed can be Believed ONLY if that Information is delivered by Trusted Sources, first one's Parents and then << Those That Can and SHOULD be Trusted >> Teachers, Priests, Reliable Friends and Noteworthy Others.

You can see the Problem.  

It Those Trusted Others propagate Lies then Lies are the ONLY 'Truths'.