What is the greatest example of the absurdity of life you’ve ever seen?
A penniless, friendless and failed art student ends up ruling a quarter of the world. I used to think that the rise to power of Adolf Hitler was the greatest evidence that life was just an eerie dream. I have changed my mind.
Sure, absurd things happen all the time. Yesterday my neighbor sold her estranged ex’s childhood bike at a moving sale and got $20 from it. The guy she sold it to immediately flipped it to another person at the moving sale for $70, and does so right in front of my neighbor. She felt kind of bad about the shrewd customer making more off the bike than her, and in her own home. Later she Googled the bike out of curiosity and found out it goes for $1000 nowadays.
That kind of little absurdities doesn’t prove that life must be an absurd dream. However I believe that the spoiled brat in the oval office is proof positive we are all in the midst of an absurdity of Daliesque proportions. Two thousand years after Nero’s tantrums atop the Roman Empire, and we have another would-be performer atop the world’s greatest superpower. So the last two thousand years have been for what? To replace a Nero with a Trump? This must be an absurd dream.
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People's Climate March
April 29, 2017 • 11:00 AM
Gather in front of the Capitol Building
Washington, DC
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People's Climate Movement Bay Area
April 29, 2017 • 11:00 AM
Lake Merritt Amphitheatre
Lake Merritt Blvd
Oakland, CA
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People's Climate Movement Sister March - San Jose, CA
April 29, 2017 • 10:00 AM
San Jose City Hall
200 E. Santa Clara Street
San Jose, CA
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People's Climate Mobilization - Sacramento
April 29, 2017 • 11:00 AM
Capitol
1200 L Street
Sacramento, CA
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2017 Detroit People's Climate March
April 29, 2017 • 2:00 PM
Peck Park
Brush & Frederick Street
Detroit, MI
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