Other people's drama doesn't concern me in the slightest; whether they are bogged down in a personal relationship that keeps them off balance, or if they are upside down with their finances or mired in political passion with nowhere to go but to Facebook to tell the world how miserable they are or why they have turned on previous friends or current relatives. We see the same caustic political opining every day, usually by the same people we allow to invade our own social networking space with their lopsided and often misguided rhetoric. It has become something we expect and only what we know will be there whether we agree with them or if we consider them to be off-the-charts-bat-shit-crazy.
There is no escaping it unless we drop out of social networking altogether or delete every actor in our lives whether they are friend, foe or total strangers that we don't agree with or anyone that tries to drag us into their miseries. But then we would need to stop reading newspapers, magazines and online news feeds and turn off our radios and televisions and concentrate only on our own drama.
I find myself constantly rubbing the back of my head without any answers to me to explain why I read most of the garbage that Facebook is now but I do read it and then move on to more garbage being posted by the same purveyors of hate, bullying and self righteousness. Many of them believe they can change the world by expressing opinions that only prove they are angry about something or by finding fault with everyone that doesn't agree with them but all they are really changing is other people's opinions of them.
Celebrities and politicians are the worst of the lot because those people feed and exist off being adored and supported by others that agree with them and they know where to find them. They exist in a cyber world that is heavily populated by people that are eaten up by hatred and mistrust of anyone that doesn't share their views or likes something they don't. The politician seizes the opportunity to invite them into a world of make-believe and broken promises and because some people have nowhere else to go or are simply unable to think for themselves they accept those invitations and thus become surrogates for them and their true personal agenda.
On the other hand, celebrities in the entertainment sphere have mammoth egos and only want to be admired because they need to sell movie tickets or promote their latest recording, or gain radio listeners or television viewers. They understand that there are enough people who are easily star-struck, waiting for a hero to follow, so they pick sides in every argument whether they believe in it or not because it is a built-in audience that is easily wooed; they become their master of ceremony, the front man to share and shine on their behalf and to lead them in a cadence echoed across the land with like-minded others that agree with them.
A recent example of celebrity leadership was the highly anticipated half-time show for the 2016 Superbowl. It was widely believed that Lady GaGa; considered by many left leaning liberals to be one of the great orators of modern times and among the most trusted voices in America today, as well as one of the great political scientist of the 21st Century. They believed she would take the stage before tens of millions of TV viewers and make the most profound political statement since Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Lady Gaga was going to set the world on fire by sharing her opinion of America today and the President of the United States and of everyone that doesn't despise him or anyone who is willing to give him and his promises a chance to see if we can do better.
She was to be the dynamite at the end of a fuse of yet another incendiary device being lobbed at mainstream America and its choice for new leadership that has taken positions that radical leftists fear will derail their efforts to turn us all into a love your neighbor society even if the neighbor hates everything you stand for and might someday kill you. That radical left of liberals that believes in free speech only when it suits their needs and expectations, the liberals in America that are still seething and will continue to seethe and simmer in a boiling pot of irrationality until the whole world agrees with them.
Her legions of admirers were stung by the results of the presidential election and she was supposed to right the sinking ship they call America and set us all straight with whatever pearls of wisdom she was expected to unleash. Her fans were excited and liberal politicians were frothing at the mouth with anticipation; they changed their own plans, cancelled previous engagements and commitments to be somewhere else just to be in front of a television for the halftime show because they were sure she would put everyone they disagreed with or despised in their place and bury them beneath a heap of shame.
I missed the program so I cannot say with certainty, but whatever she did or said on stage didn't change the world as many hoped it would. From the disappoint in her performance I saw from liberals I can assume it fell short of what Lincoln's political messages meant to large crowds that gathered to hear his take on important American issues.
The anticipated drama of what Lady Gaga would unleash, nor the game itself was on my list of things to do on Superbowl Sunday, but putting a fresh coat of wax on my car was! I try to keep the drama in my own life manageable and in perspective, totally devoid of being a distraction to anyone else's. Before the coin was flipped for the 51st Superbowl the wax was applied and my car was again shiny, and before it ended I was back on Facebook sharing pictures of it with friends that appreciate images of shiny Ford Mustangs!
I have to be honest I am not familiar with Lady GaGa: I have never listened to her music and never concerned myself with her political views, and I didn't care one way or the other about either team in the Superbowl or who would win. It is the reason I didn't get caught up or emotionally anxious about any of it. Like I said; I avoid other people's drama while doing all I can to concentrate on my own and mine isn't the kindling for anyone's distorted views of other people or their political passion. My drama isn't about asking for favors or understanding of anything, yet I suspect there are some that might read this and find enough in it to pick a fight with.
But whatever any reader's take on all of this might be it is hard to imagine how anyone could look at my car and not agree that it looks good when it is clean and sports a shine!
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