Unexpected

Reading from works by writers that think outside the box or for whom the box does not indeed even exist, is so refreshing.

One such writer, C.G.

Jung — one of the socalled “Three Fathers of Modern Psychology” — always yields rewarding finds.

Here are a few lines to consider that are particularly appropriate in describing our times, even though Jung penned them in 1933: “We suppose that what is pleasing or desirable to us is the same to others, and that what seems bad to us must also seem bad to them.”

Then, there is Terence — a playwright of the Roman Republic — who coined a similar phrase with a similar meaning:

“ Aliis si licet, tibi non licet.”

Which means, 'To others it is permitted; to you it is not permitted.'

Now, for the contemporary version: “Rules for Thee, Not For Me!”

Sound familiar?

That's because hypocrisy is not new.

What IS new, is that hypocrites expect everyone else to agree with them today.

Indeed, so delusional are they, that when an outcome results that everyone else could see coming at them a mile away… like a train in a tunnel… these folks act as if it was completely unexpected.

Take the new unemployment rates.

Every week they come out, new highs, which dwarf not only the previous months, but the entire year before.

Yet, the media yells, “That was so-o-o-o unexpectedly high.”

Like they couldn't see that complete lockdowns, mob rule with looting and fires with rioters freed from those pesky law enforcement officers, wasn't going to go well. Businesses folding like a house of cards.

Yeah, right.

And the gas prices going to fifty dollars per fill-up instead of half that?

Continued on Page 5

‘Wordaholic’

By Robert L. Hall ROBERT HALL (cont.)

When the Keystone Pipeline is axed and fracking on government lands shut down, with workers told to cap wells instead of opening them up for exploration?

Did anyone really need a crystal ball to see that coming?

Obviously, they did.

And now, internationally, China and Russia and Iran and North Korea have been emboldened with a president who falls down stairs, can't speak in complete sentences, and stares fixedly at a camera until an aide comes along to lead him out of the room.

Recently, China met with U.S. cabinet officials and did everything but turn around and poop on the table.

And even if they did, the leftists in our own government would deny that the Chinese Communists did it… you know, like they denied that the Chinese spread the Wuhan Virus over the globe from a chemical warfare lab?

Like that.

Then, there's the denial that there's a crisis on our Southern Border.

Even when the Czar appointed to that matter just quit.

Or was fired due to incompetence.

which.

And V.P., Cackling Kamala, who — we were told a month ago — was put in charge of the border, to-date has

But, hey, she went to Chicago and ate at a bakery. And flew to California —

I wonder if anyone told her that California actually has a shared border with Mexico? She could of actually…

from where she was.

Guess they didn't want to clutter her mind with anything like… facts?

That kind of information

have come in handy. You know… IF you were an elected official?

And it was… like…

to be put in charge of the southern border?

Like El Presidente Biden said.

Un-huh.

To bring everything full circle, just saw an advertisement on YouTube while I was watching a comedy special.

And it was all in Spanish.

Didn't see

one coming, did you?

Get the message yet? Wonder why?

Robert L. Hall is a resident of Marion and has a Bachelor’s Degree in music from the University of Memphis and a Master’s Degree from Florida State University. He is the pianist for Avondale Baptist Church and a writer of fiction on Amazon eBooks.