“THE KEY TO SURVIVAL”
by OPOVV, ©2017
(Jan. 12, 2017) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I’m Mr. Roving Reporter, and I’ll be your host for tonight’s episode of ‘Pulse of the Nation.’ With me is our very own soon-to-be Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, ‘Zork’ Zorkophsky.
“When’s the big day, Professor, the day that you retire?”
“Hey, Roving, how are you doing? Well, I’ve got to finish building the garage and rebuild the generator; it seems the list is never completed.”
“You mean to say that you’ll leave when your list on fixing up your cabin in the woods, your retirement home, is completed?”
“We must live practicable lives, you know. I’m sure you can find that sage advice somewhere in one of the proverbs.”
“Under the heading of ‘Retire Smart,’ I’m sure. Anyway, we’re here to ask your opinion on this ‘fake news’ and tall tales from Prague.”
“The fact of the matter is this: because we’re not perfect, nothing is. The only perfect life – I think he called it the ‘examined life’ — well, you know what they did to him.”
“What did they do?”
“They nailed him to a cross, is what happened.”
“So you’re saying if we’re really, really good the same will happen to us? They’ll nail us to a cross?”
“I suppose, in a manner of speaking, then yes. I mean, Roving, metaphorically speaking. It’s the old karma thing: eventually your bad deeds will catch up with you.”
“You mean these ISIS and other Muslims who cut people’s heads off or push people off of tall buildings will finally get their comeuppance?”
“Well, maybe not; not always.”
“Now I’m really confused.”
“You think you’re confused? What about Jesus’s followers, what do you think they thought? They knew he could’ve laid some serious smite on the Rabbis and Romans if he had a mind to; he didn’t have to be paraded around like some kind of circus freak. I would’ve laid waste to the whole lot of them, but then I guess that’s why I’m not Jesus.”
“Me, too: ‘Hey, Pilot, take a hike. Just maybe I’ll crucify you. ‘Do unto others,’ you know?’ They say to try and walk in the footsteps of Jesus, but it’s pretty hard to do.”
“Of course it’s ‘hard to do,’ that’s the whole point. Easy is for lazy, got it? You don’t want to be lazy, now, do you?”
“Some things.”
“’Dignity in ironing a shirt,’ for instance? Take pride in whatever you may do and do the best job you can.”
“I don’t know, Zork. Why does it have to be so darn complicated?”
“It works thusly: when you’re young, you’re given all the information you require to live a good life, on the whole, okay? Then, if you’re lucky, you get old and have the opportunity to reflect on how you did. Most people fail pretty miserably. The worst offenders are, naturally, the violent ones. After those are the liars, the thieves and the cheaters, you know, the adulterers. The emotional toll on a society made up of millions of divorced people is pretty much negative.
“There’s a correlation in Big Government, you know, and it has to do with those who deal in information: the key to survival. Think of the president as the groom and the sharers of information as the bride. You get married and then the bride gets a phone call at 4:00 in the morning from the previous boyfriend: what to think?
“Surely there’s a breakdown in communication somewhere and, let’s face it, only bad things can come of it. 9-11 is the prime example of a communication breakdown, just as a divorce is. No, I’m not saying the government knew specifically that a gang of crazed psychos would fly innocent people into tall buildings, but what I am suggesting is that you read the ‘Pentagon Papers*’ before you mobilize a rebuttal, is all. You can’t help arriving at the conclusion that we’re being run by a bunch of vindictive ‘little’ people.
“All over the world Muslims are doing grievous harm to non-Muslims, from ‘rape gangs’ in Sweden, Great Britain, Europe and everywhere else, to ‘honor killings’ and spreading the Muslim Brotherhood’s manifesto of Islam conquering the world all over the place. It’s impossible to ignore, just as the mantra of ‘No Jew between me and the sea’ is impossible to ignore, repeated by millions of Muslims in the Middle East. There is no ‘peace’ with Islam, just as there are no possible treaties to be honored with Islam.
“All of the civilized world is at war with Islam, which automatically makes Russia an ally of the United States. It would behoove the civilized nations to put up a united front facing our common enemy, but forget the ‘Muslim Admiration Society,’ otherwise known as the United Nations.”
“How time flies when you’re having fun. That means our time is up, so I’d like to thank you, Zork, for sharing your insights with our viewers. Could you wrap it up for us?”
“Be glad to, Roving. President-elect Trump has expressed disappointment in our intelligence community and with good reason. This worldwide war that Islam has with Western Civilization is very real, and no less real even though we have yet to declare war on the political entity known as Islam. There is no ‘religion’ here: death and destruction is it; it’s what we’ve seen and what we’ll get.”
“Thank you, Zork. On behalf of the crew, I’d like to wish each and every one of you a goodnight: Goodnight.
“Hey, Zork, join us for a burger: my treat.”
[*Pentagon Papers: history of government lies to the American people and to itself.]