How important to be happy about the little things when you wake up. Enjoy the extraordinary of the everyday. Like the smell of freshly brewed coffee or the fact that no civilization has been blown up tonight. Let’s start there. Celebrating that there has not been an extermination of tens of millions of people, as the president of the United States threatened. This morning there was a last-minute agreement with Iran.
We have a president of the United States, and I say we have because we all share it – we suffer it – capable of promising the extermination of an entire civilization, the Iranian one, with the same frivolity that he comments on a gala dinner at ‘Mar-a-Lago’. At the last minute, a two-week ceasefire agreement was reached that he sells as victories and the Iranians sell as a humiliating withdrawal.
And today the stock markets will rise, oil will fall and a guy who threatens to commit genocide in prime time by hinting at the use of nuclear weapons will continue to rule the White House. And the story of Peter and the wolf was not intended with nuclear weapons, whose power is based on deterrence, not bragging.
The opposite is chaos, which is exactly where we are. It is not the law of the strongest, but that of the most buzzed. The law of impulsiveness, unpredictability… and imbecility. In just over a year, the United States has gone from leader of the free world to agent of chaos.
The eccentric outbursts of the president of the United States are much more than a simple rhetorical escalation or an outburst. They come from the man who commands the most powerful army in the world. Donald Trump is making the same kind of threats that authoritarian rulers of the world’s worst regimes make, such as the Iranian regime itself, when he threatened to “wipe Israel off the map.” Now those types of openly genocidal extermination threats come from the White House.
Whether he is in full use of his faculties or has lost his mind is not the most relevant thing. The most disturbing thing is that we no longer know the difference.
Moral?
His latest ravings
give chills
