From some video on YouTube about Thelema--I forgot who was even talking but they said something like, "The uninitiated will go through life begging and searching for signs, but when you become initiated you begin to understand that everything you encounter is a sign." 

The speaker acknowledged that that frame of mind often drives people insane. Believing that you are participating in a constant dialogue with the universe--trying to decipher the meaning behind every leaf that falls, every driver who cuts you off--it can cause your brain to explode. Still, considering the spectrum between nothing means anything and everything means something--leaning towards the latter seems preferable to me. 

Trump won so what is that meant to teach the people who have been paying attention? 

I am reading "The 5 Invitations" and there is a lot in there about accepting everything with loving detachment. There is an invitation to welcome everything, refuse nothing. The author speaks of looking straight into the wound--that it's the only way to heal. Well, here goes. Looks like that is just what we're about to do. 

Anyway, good luck with it. 

This country elected an incoherent rac(p)ist for a second time. Like a parent in denial I want to say, "NOT MY COUNTRY," but it is mine. Why pretend otherwise? Why pretend to be surprised? 

I shut down my Facebook as not to enrich the bad guys with my bad feelings. Bad feelings are the new currency. I'm trying to keep most of mine to myself and so should you. 

I want to think this is backlash against the Democrats for bankrolling a genocide, but that's probably not what this is. 

More likely it's just good old American stupidity. This is just our centuries' old habit of acting against our own interest because we are afraid of our fellow poor people. Because they're poor for a different reason than we are. 

Fuck these propaganda machines.