political warnings

My loyalties are often conflicted because I have known so many people in different contexts who are obviously doing what they are supposed to. But I have also seen in that same variety of environments various hypocrisies as people gleefully destroy the good work and reputations of those who are clearly helping others with all their strength, or at least most of their strength. Sometimes in those margins of what is left undone, aggressors attack mostly decent people and use that leverage to try to create more damage. It is a sad thing, but I mention it just to say that I think with all the problems in our country and world, as we see parts of our culture lost and destroyed, there will be a lot of martyrdom mixed in that people think they won’t be held accountable for.  It might not be the most classic Christian martyrdom, but it might, and people are already sacrificed and persecuted for all kinds of goodness and just an innocence of basic living and staying human. Any activist who thinks they are going to gain some kind of moral victory from carelessly and lazily opposing anyone with a different belief or background is going to find themselves responsible for losses that they might not have wanted to be guilty of if they had thought through their choices more wisely of how to serve the public in the most powerful way. It could ironically become very simple after all, as people are found out to be starkly either good or bad, no matter what situation they find themselves in as everyone makes their choice of whether to treat people with kindness and justice or blatant, undisguised crime.

maybe Jeff Bezos will save us all from the hoarders

Apparently amazon is overwhelmed with orders and can’t “deliver” on its prime services that people paid for, which no one needs to be a jerk about, because coronoravirus was very unexpected.  But I do think that there is an arrogance and disrespect that I have never seen the likes of in my life when I go to inquire about a pancake mix order that is obviously deliberately delayed as a power play and the only communication option there is is to “chat” with a “bot.”  A hard to find web page with literal artificial intelligence or maybe just an insult to everyone’s intelligence as we realize that quarantined people’s hunger for rice and beans is nothing compared to Amazon’s hunger for money and power.