A Black Santa !?

A Black Santa !?

   Today I watched an advertisement for a Disney film featuring a Black Santa and Black Elves.  After spending my entire life as a Honky (a Fade) I was shocked and offended by having a white mythological figure portrayed by a black mythological figure.  The Santa myth is ours, not theirs, just as the Jesus myth is ours.  Ask yourself, “What will it take to Make America Great Again?”   

   There is an assault taking place on white privilege.  It must be stopped at any cost.  Even the election of Herr Drump, Verminemeister to the office of President, is not too much of a mistake.  Those who run Disney are WINOs (White In Name Only) and must be eliminated.  The previous words are my view of MAGA (Morons Against Government, Association), of those still on the Trump Train.

   There is no valid reason for the mythological Santa to be a white man.  He represents the imaginary Christmas gift giver to small children.  But, small Black children actually get their gifts from a Black Santa.  My children got their gifts from Mrs. Clause, since my wife has always been the parent to shop for gifts in our family.

   So Santa can be black or white or of color or a man or a woman or a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim.  The Santa mythology can be owned by any of us, as can the Jesus mythology.  Jews and learned theologians will say He was a Jew, born of a married Jewish virgin and the Creator of a Universe, 47 Billion Light Years in diameter and growing at the exact same rate as the power of our telescopes.  Right Wing Christians may claim Him as theirs and people of color may do the same.  I don’t know where Mary and The Creator met, but their serendipity meeting sure changed the future of the Western World.  Realizing that this story is mythology should take place at about the same age that a child learns who Santa actually is, but somehow in some, the delusion persists throughout their lives.

   Why is this important?  Because belief in religion can lead to love and joy or it can lead to hate and murder as it presently does in The Holy Land.  As an agnostic, I can live without it.

Cheers, Old Buz        11/15/2023

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Biblical Wisdom

 “Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.” – The Book of Bokonon I:5 – Translation by Kurt Vonnegut

*foma = harmless untruths 

"I don't care what people say ..."

   The full sentence from this song of my youth was, “I don’t care what people say.  Rock and Roll is here to stay.”  This song introduced in 1957 by Danny & The Juniors was an instant hit and a gold record.  There was obvious wisdom in the lyrics.  There was also a small unimportant untruth.  Two things can be true at the same time.  The small lie was, “I don’t care what people say.”  Danny’s group cared very much about the size of their concerts and the sales of their records.  They were professional entertainers.  Their prediction that, “Rock and Roll is here to stay” has proven to be correct.

   “Rock and Roll is here to stay,” I don’t see as a compliment to the listener.  The melodies of the music are not particularly pleasing.  The lyrics are simple, repetitive, not poetic and generally offer little message.  The instruments are more pounded on than played.  On occasion, a guitar is destroyed at the end of a song being performed.  I would guess that it is all about the beat.  It is easily danced to.  And that is a good thing.  Perhaps, the only good thing about it.  If one were only to listen to it and not dance to it, I would venture that it is to music what cage fighting is to sports.  Both are here to stay.

   Why am I writing this?  And better yet, why are you reading it?  Perhaps the basis for this blog is that the simple majority here in America has no taste.  The proof of this was in the presidential election of 2016, when they elected Donald Trump.  To be fair to the voters, the majority did not vote for him, but we do accept a system where it doesn’t require a majority to be elected.

Rock & Roll is here to stay, Old Buz               11/06/2023

 

Remember:

“One cannot fool all of the people all of the time … and that is why we have two political parties.” - Anon          

In His Name

 

In His Name

   I have just been watching a couple of hours of the cable news coverage of the war in Gaza.  It is being fought “In His Name.”  The casualties are primarily civilian.  It involves burning small children alive, having parents killed before their children’s eyes and having children killed before their parents’ eyes.  Human intelligence cannot be underestimated in time of war. “In His name.”  The name, “God” is mythological, but the results of this biblical delusion are very real.  How long will humans march to the music of “Our god is the only true god and the others (nonbelievers) must die?”  History would tell us that these gullible folks will always be and have always been and that they are most often in the majority.  The Gaza War is biblical.  Future mythology will have it in God’s name and the victors will have God at their side, while the vanquished will be punished for their sinful existence.  Could there be truth in this evaluation of human slaughter?  Is God’s justice being carried out in the slaughter of women, children and yes innocent men?  It is after all the same justice as was carried out in the Passover story or the story of Noah and his ark.  In the Passover story the first born sons of a population were killed by God and His army of angels while they knew not of their sin.  God saved Noah and his family (along with two of each living critters) while drowning the rest of the innocents on the planet.  I suppose that the fish were also saved.  How could a fish be a sinner?

   The faithful believe that the first woman was born of the first man’s rib about six thousand years ago, when God created The Universe in six days and rested on the seventh.  Once again, “You cannot underestimate human intelligence.”  The recent Gaza event started when the Muslims of Gaza kicked the Jews of Israel in the groin.  This is an act very similar to kicking Superman in the groin.  Superman, in response, will predictably leave Clark Kent far behind.   Those heroes (butchers) of Hamas knew that they were killing their own families with that kick.  However their leaders saw it as a worthwhile endeavor.  Once again, you cannot underestimate human intelligence.  So, the innocents will continue to die in the name of a mythological figure.  I have heard some very well educated individuals say that the mythology has a good effect on society.  I would prefer truth.  Truth is a better pathway from the past to the future.  Will we see truth prevail in our next era of Artificial Intelligence?  One can only hope so.

   As a retired American, in his eighties, witnessing the human slaughter on his Cable TV, I am not able to put on a uniform and carry a weapon into the mayhem, killing strangers or being killed by them.  I can only scratch my head and say, “Why is this happening?”  I believe the answer lies with our US Senate, a group of one hundred (primarily attorneys) who cannot figure out how to overrule one member who is holding up the formality of military promotions of over three hundred officers in the time of war in the world.  “It’s the rule!”  Well, change it, God damn it.  Again, you cannot underestimate human intelligence.

Cheers, Old Buz                      November 4^th, 2023

 

“To the common folk, religion is truth.

To the wise, religion is false.

To the leaders, religion is useful.”

- Seneca the Younger (4 BC – 68 AD)