Sure, as the old song sang, what the world needs now is love, sweet love. But maybe what the world and especially America needs is a real old-fashioned Alien Invasion. And not from our southern border. From Outer Space. A recent House Oversight subcommittee hearing interviewed witnesses who testified about unexplained object sightings and secret government stores of “nonhuman biological matter.”
The Pentagon actually has an “All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office” (ADAR) which conspiracy theorists allege seeks to “resolve” i.e. “hide”reports of “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or UAPs. (UFOs are so 1950s. Like, not “homeless” but “unhoused.” Get woke, people! But not you, Floridians).
In this age of hate, cynicism, retribution and distrust; threats of national division, secession, civil war, blue states vs red, maybe a global threat to humanity is just what the world needs now. One would think the most existential threat to life on earth is climate change, but even this real and immediate threat fails to bring us together to fight a common enemy. The climate change threat instead has only served to exacerbate the divide. So would a real invasion from “outer space” with faster-than-light ships and space lasers that incinerate cities and forests (non-Jewish lasers… sorry Marjorie Taylor Greene) be the catalyst that unites us to protect and save humanity? One would hope so. But rather than an invasion from another galaxy we actually had among us a real earthly kumbaya healer for the cleft in our national soul. He died and left our planet recently. That mixer of frozen concoctions and joyful, mellow insouciance, singer Jimmy Buffett came closer than many to bridging warring ideologies and promoting peace and love, sweet love. He didn’t implore us to look for a common enemy to fight. Jimmy Buffett asked us to look for commonalities, he asked us laugh at ourselves, to lighten up and enjoy the silly hokey-pokey moments in life which when added up is what it’s all about. When eulogies from such disparate voices as Sen. Ted Cruz and President Biden announce their wish that his legacy is not lost but lives on then maybe there is hope for a national reconciliation. And no need for an alien invasion.
…published in St. Joe Herald Palladium 9/6/2023, L.Rudmann
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