The rotting corpse of the GOP spreads fumes of evil, poisoning the world.
Humans, for the most part are not comfortable with ambiguity and when faced with it will immediately start searching for meaning and clarity to find answers that ease their anxiety about the unknown. This is why I prefer to leave a ‘healthy’ dose of enigma in my work, with the hopes that this will engage the imagination of the viewer, by triggering their curiosity. In the process of filling in what they perceive as ‘blank’ spaces, the projections they come up with can reveal personal subconscious truths which can subliminally aid in the process of self-awareness, much the way Rorschach tests do.
Art has the ability to evade defenses and speak straight to the subconscious, which processes much of our abstract thinking.
It can be ever-much as fast and sharp as Cupid’s arrow and frequently more accurate.
This is a very short diary or perhaps a very long caption for the drawing that accompanies it.
The many political cartoons posted on this site have encouraged me to offer it as the focus here. However, unlike them, it lacks humor and has its roots more deeply intwined in 19th century social and political commentary art which was often sharp and unsparing. (Thomas Nast for example.)
I have heard that when Krishnamurti attained enlightenment it altered the neuronal structure of his brain in measurable ways.
Perhaps something similar happens when individuals or groups slide into doing evil and their sociopathic tendencies become ascendant, entrenched and immutable. When this happens they lock into behavioral patterns that are highly destructive, and ultimately self-defeating. It is a form of ‘demonic possession’.
In a previous diary regarding corporations, I spoke about how collective human endeavors such as business entities, governing ideologies and conspiracies (which are the rumor mill’s ’premium brand’), could eventually grow to take on a life of their own. The people involved interweave their convictions, obsessions and, in many cases, paranoia, causing these forces to develop, mutually reenforce and spread — until the spark of life ignites — by which time they can be rampantly malignant.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/8/2204466/-C6RP6RATI6NS-are-the-BEAST-made-MANifest-They-are-parasitic-SuperOrganisms-consuming-Gaia
As such misdirected collective sentience escalates and multiplies, it spreads out in shattered waves infecting those portions of the populous it intersects who lack the ability to process information along constructive lines that better represent reality. If the peg fits the hole in their head…voila!…’nuf said.
Although initially efforts may be made to control this pernicious mutation, at some point it reaches a crescendo and goes ‘feral’, becoming too massive, complex and tenuous to be directed by any individual or group.
Although the ‘Pussy Purloiner’ gives the appearance of still being in control, he is actually just adhering to a predetermined program that is becoming increasingly more difficult to command. There are enough ‘loose ends’ now to form a noose and MAGA has become a form of collective madness, with a dovetail that ‘ the space between his ears’ locks into perfectly — confining his options.
In Putin’s case, the personal power and security structure he has surrounded himself with, controls him as much, or perhaps more, than he controls it. It is his shrinking cage.
As the GOP continues to degrade and self-destruct, going into a form of sociopathological meltdown, the de-stabilizing forces unleashed, having long since escaped confinement, will continue running on the remaining necromantic fumes, spreading evil throughout the land. Like broken spokes in the wheel of yin yang, this destabilization foments chaos in a world already badly ‘out of balance’.
Even when the “Tangerine Traitor” gets crated and the Freedom Caucus ‘cancer’ becomes fatally metastasized, shock waves will continue to spread out and wreak havoc — not the least of which has been and will continue to be in the form of environmental destruction.
By an overwhelming factor, the greatest ‘evil’ propagated by the GOP has been that lavished on the environment, both from neglect, as well as deliberate malfeasance on behalf of their overlords.
If we lose our democracy, this will become a ‘Fait accompli’ —
and on a ‘scale’ to put an end to fate itself.
“Cleanup on aisle 9.”