Moot

Surrealism / Paul Nash/ Pillar and Moon

Moot: (adjective)  

of little or no practical value, meaning, or relevance; purely academic:

Polk; Fillmore; Pierce; Buchanan, Nixon.  History is littered with these.  These are ones that didn’t hold up to our current definitions of competence and/or propriety.  

We are currently in a state where the assignment of failure and the stigmata therewith are being aggressively assigned.  Washington and Jefferson are actively being pursued.  More recent officeholders are being queued up.

I really can’t say that this aspect of history is interesting to me any more.  I am not the judge of history.  I have watched the contest between the different branches of government play out for fifty years now and I can’t say that rational behavior is a hallmark of the sport.

We love assigning blame.  Punishment is our favorite sport. 

I really could care less if someone can count to 30,000.  What concerns me is that someone took the time.  Having lived in Portland for the past year, watching the drama of cosseted princesses on the other side of the country merely bores me.

I really like the latest video of a aerobics instructor in Myanmar dancing away as armored vehicles execute a coup.  Now those folks have read Luttwak.  We aren’t there yet.  

What happens in the rest of 2021 is what is important.  What happened in the old regime is not important.  Failures are failures and how things move on are what is important.  All the problems that haven’t been addressed for the past forty years are still there.  All the problems that brought about the shitshow we find ourselves in are not getting better.  

I refuse to talk about the past failures.  We aren’t learning from them because we haven’t dealt with the core issues that precipitated the problems.  Dwelling on the past administration just keeps the spotlight off the administration that perhaps has the wherewithal to solve the problems.

Let’s stop wasting time on losers.