A new year starts. T**** atop the headline, a reminder that we know the lifelong, lying, sack of scoundrel shit is still a lifelong, lying, sack of scoundrel shit, plus now commercially, perpetually amplified into a growing danger to democracy, all of us personally, and hopes for world peace.
It only takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel.
A barrel is about twenty-five of the small bags of apples, probably around three hundred medium to large-sized apples, depending on how well they are packed. So depending on how well they are bunched in a barrel could hold anywhere from three hundred to three hundred and fifty apples.
I believe the "one bad apple..." metaphor stands the test of time.
Using 332,000,000 as the American population, 300 apples/barrel, then the US represents approximately 1,107,000 barrels, leaving Americans metaphorically at risk of ruination by 3,699 bad apples. (Math checking welcome.) Pshew, if you're into delicious, fleshy, robust apples, that's a lot of f'ing rotten ones.
Every week I purchase at least 3 apples, and by carefully choosing to cast away those with wormholes, bruises, lesions, and discoloration, I've purchased approximately 6,200 apples with consistent success at selecting, so consuming, fresh, ripe, satisfying fruit of apple trees.
An apple tree, though not all as far as we know, was once called the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Although, fact check, apples thrived in Kazakhstan but not so far to the Garden called Eden said to be in the Sumerian Edin, the floodplain of Lower Mesopotamia. So, maybe it was just a myth? Or maybe it was a Pomegranate?
For human bad apples, I despise those who are indifferent to ruination and enjoy the cruelty of ruining.
Similar calculations are used to enumerate dangerous friends, family, neighbors, or strangers. For instance, there could be approximately 50,000,000 sociopaths! Worse, the number of Americans displaying sociopathy is growing, significantly.
- Antisocial personality disorder (including psychopathy) — 3.05 to 3.8 percent
- Narcissistic personality disorder — 1.0 to 6.2 percent
- Borderline personality disorder — 1.9 to 5.9 percent
- Histrionic personality disorder — 0.3 to 1.8 percent
All together, therefore, 6.25 to 17.7 percent of the adult population are sociopaths
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Eliminating psychopaths who generously generally don't dump their "opothy" on others of us, tha leaves a lot of Americans to keep away from power in families, workplaces, communities and in any leadership positions.
With an ardent focus on the worst 3,700 scoundrels, since they're probably also are at the top of the pecking order of sociopaths, means is a lot of work. And by my priorities T****s come first. Then sociopathic, or socio-indifferent, Republicans next.
Therefore, 2024 looks like a year of increasing work, more teamwork, more integration across coalitions, a lot more working smarter rather than just doing the same work over and over.
So what preparation, tools, positive choices will I be mindful of to be happy, healthy, and give 100% in these most serious next 12 months of my life? Vitamins, restful sleep, lots of protein and veggies, physical and mental exercise, movement, holding my beloveds closely, radical love, radical listening, connection, say yes…
I pray for the containment of bad apples.
I pray to raise fewer sociopaths as a nation.
I pray to see T in a federal prison ASAP.
I pray these 1st steps toward peace, peace everywhere, and petsonally for mindfulness, and brevity.
And I wish everyone here a happy and healthy new year. Life, social peace and justice are, as they say, marathons. But this year, 2024, looks like an unavoidable sprint. Maybe THE sprint of a lifetime.