Dimensionally Barrett

For two months, I’ve refrained from writing. I’ve been mostly silent on social media. Part of this was necessity, part of it was simply desire to stop. I needed to stop reading compulsively and I wanted to stop writing.  I wanted to stop writing and I needed to stop reading compulsively so that I could take time to look and listen at the world without noise. It isn’t what I’ve seen or not seen that leads me to write this. It’s what I’ve felt, what I’ve been feeling. When the regime came to power in November 2024, I knew then that the nation had crossed the rubicon into authoritarianism. Setting aside a worthwhile argument that the election’s balanced was tipped by a person or persons with vested interests in returning a would-be king to power and seeing to it that Project 2025 was followed closely, the fact remains that there is a substantial minority of voters, of citizens in this country who very much would welcome the end of democracy and who support minority rule.  Partici...

Source: PBS.org I love John Oliver. I hate watching his show. Actually, I don’t hate watching his show; however, I’d be lying if I said that the topics he covers are often guaranteed to generate a wave of anger that requires immediate attention.   He recently covered the dismantling of USAID a year after DOGE and the Regime went to town on it. When it was first announced what they were doing, the responses were vocal and that the results of destroying the United States’ flagship of goodwill and the most effective agency for combating starvation, illness, and death would be scores of millions displaced, sick, and dead.   I’mi not going to repeat Oliver’s figures or research, though. I don’t even need, much less want to review the ghoulishness criminality of the likes of Mike Benz, and others who actually celebrated the agency’s demise. What I do want to consider is the disconnect between people who espouse Christian love and compassion but celebrate the destruction of lives acr...