FACEBOOK "REELS"
Several years ago (or a period in the past I do not recall) my Facebook feed (I guess that’s what you call it) began to feature “Reels”—five or six short videos running about 20 to 30 seconds.
At first I really didn’t know what they were, so I started clicking them on to see what each video was about. Most featured women of all races and nationalities—some fine, others moderately so, and the rest (the majority) … well let’s just say that assessment belonged to the eyes of the beholder). The striking thing is that most displayed, and revealed with deliberate accentuation, the ass and all of its contours sprinkled with way too much cleavage (the kind best displayed in the bedroom and not in a public video).
After viewing as much “ass and tits” as a man could stand (even one who was once an avid reader of Hustler and Penthouse in a prison cell), I simply quit clicking on the videos.
The only photos and videos I would watch, and still do, are those dealing with Native Americans, historical events, and, of course, the Yankees and old football clips of “Dandy Don Meredith” throwing a touchdown to “Bullet” Bob Hayes.
For some reason (and I really don’t know why), I started clicking on the “Reels” again about 10 months ago—about the time we got a president who’s already stopped 7, 8, 10, or 13 wars that were never started.
And what did I discover?
Not ass or tits but men (and some women) trying to kick each other’s ass from this point to that point in road rages, store line disputes, accidental bumping into each other, etc. These fights—some with fists, others with gloves, and others with whatever the hands could find—were occurring all over this country (even the entire world).
America is a pissed off nation!
Hate speech is now acceptable, Nazi salutes are welcomed, mass shootings occur by the hundreds, and just plain senseless violence with no rhyme or reason takes place every day and is re-told every day on Dateline.
I watch the local San Antonio news esch day. I have to endure the first 4 to 5 stories about someone being murdered, shot, stabbed, or beaten to death. Hell, the local news is also replete with violent dog attacks on humans (several fatal and most disfiguring) or against pet dogs out for a evening walk with their owner.
Violence is rooted in the American DNA. Our ability to initiate it, inflict it in a disproportionate way, and use it to take whatever we want under guises of “greatness,” “manifest destiny,” and/or “divine right” litter our history.
When my Reels today are not dealing with some form of violent human assault, they’re about animal attacks on each other. I find myself pulling for the poor creature being chased by a superior beast or attacked by a pack of snarling hyenas. I cringe when they are caught or killed. I once believed the animal kingdom was a wonderful place until I started watching those bat-shit crazy Facebook Reels.
So which is worse—the human kingdom or the animal kingdom?
Fuck if I know.
What I do know is that I don’t go beyond my fenced yard after dark and I make sure the doors are locked before I go to bed.
Hell, a serial killer or a wild bear could be lurking in the darkness.
At least in prison I did not have to worry about serial killers or wild bears!
Well, maybe a time or two …