Adversarial Living

Donald Trump has a lot of people wondering where we went wrong, starting with questioning the validity of his party and the faction within it supporting him. I'm sure they don't wonder or worry about anything. That's the point. They're only defensive and unthinking. 

But from there I wonder about everything: the country, Western Civilization and Christianity, humanity, creation, and the universe since its inception or whatever. This is what Trump can do to you, take you from irritation and stupefaction to universal, existential horror.

The trouble must have started with the mistake of going adversarial with nature, I bet, and thinking that our species is different, special and somehow outside of it. But in screwing-up nature we are screwing ourselves. It has been a suicidal romp culminating in Trump. 

Possibly even that will feed his vanity. His self-importance is qualitatively neutral. He doesn't care what it is as long as he can stick his name on it and feel like a big man. The United States of Trump? He would probably be happy to be known as the biggest anything ever. 

Even idiot, loser or nut-case, as long as he gets the attention. It means he could make us all into losers without a thought. His campaign has caught fire--no, it's on fire, and we're about to be engulfed. Are we having fun yet? It appears that he is, as a spectacle, a car crash.