Into the Not-So-Groovy #71 - "Here Comes the War"

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I'm not feeling very Groovy tonight, but I've got nowhere else to put this, not without starting a new series, and I'm not in the mood. I've been reading hateful, hateful comments all day on Facebook. I won't even bother saying that these comments are about Orlando, because anyone even remotely trying to send prayers, thoughts, vibes, whatever, to the victims, quickly moved out of the way. Instead, the victims no longer mattered. It very quickly, no matter which news thread, devolved into sheer hate. Naturally, a lot of that vitriol was directed at Muslims. But even that seemed to pale in comparison to the gun/anti-gun, Republican/Democrat, atheist/Christian "arguments" that I read. All of them were at each other's throats, and it wasn't pretty, nice, or fun to read. I'm sitting here in the dining room with all of the lights off. I do this every night, but tonight it just seems darker. I know it's only Facebook and I shouldn't take it too seriously, but not every single commenter can be a troll. Which means that an inordinate amount of people on all sides actually believe the bile they are spewing forth. None of it is particularly helpful right now. But I seriously doubt if it's going to change anytime soon. But hey, at least people stopped verbally attacking each other over LGBT bathrooms for a day, I guess. The anger in this New Model Army song pretty much mirrors my mood. Two lyrics stand out for me right now: "Like a whirling dervish spinning round, faster, the center cannot hold," and: "You said give us liberty or give us death, now you've got both, what do you want next?" (Actually, that's just one of my all-time favorite lyrics.) If none of this made any sense, I apologize. I'm just sick of hate today. Especially when it's between people that should be uniting at the moment. Anyway, here's Into the Groovy #71.