A friend posted the list of words and phrases that are to no longer to be used in the Centers for Disease Control and other Health and Human Services agencies. Words - banned? Hmm. This happens when fear begins to infect even those who claim to be the strongest and the most powerful. Such actions must be seen and heard as the beginning of the attempt by the power of evil to bring about a society that must be held captive - restrained - silenced so that the power of death can grow - like a death star. I find it humorous that another Star Wars movie is upon us as we are creeping into the darkness of our present days. I have yet to see the movie but I have been watching its production taking place in real time and in real life. The first time I read about this banning of words I thought of all the tyrants and tyrannical powers in the last century that attempted to rule by force - tried to press a people into a mold even if it meant eliminating those who would not let themselves be molded by violence and lies. It is always a subtle start. It starts with language - then, the violence and the death grows.
I responded to my friend by offering a new Advent prayer - a plea: Come, George Carlin. Come. In the dark days of Advent - in the dark days that have brought every civilization to dream and think of light returning to brighten the world - in the dark days of half-truths also known as lies - in the dark days where threats ring out and truth is locked away, we need truth-tellers who do not abide by that which has been deemed right and good within the bounds of an evil time that attempts to paint itself as having an apocalyptic savior at hand. Fear creates darkness - it longs for darkness - it ferments within darkness - it seeps through the darkness. Therefore, those who resist the darkness - those who pull back the veil - those who report on the clowns who rule the darkness - those who speak up even as the darkness works to silence them, become for us like prophets. I always thought the great prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures had to be comedians. They saw and heard the same stuff everyone else was seeing and hearing - but they addressed themselves to its absurdity - its oppressive power - its well-groomed laws that led to injustice and war. They often looked and sounded like comedians of the day - stand up comedy at its best.
Come, George Carlin. Come - means we must speak up and make note of the vulgarity that has tried to paint our society in gold that is really the presence of fake power and might. We cannot hold back. I might even plea: Come, Alfred E. Neuman, Come. The day of the fear-mongering clown must be exposed by a culture of comedic resisters whose humor pierces the armor of those who one day will be a pile of relics we will place in museums in order to teach our children how fear brews demons and death - and dunces. Unfortunately, the clowns of tyranny and power cannot see how they have become like demons who - so lost within their own minds - only know how to eliminate others who do not participate in their self-indulgent fantasy. Come, Comedians, Come. Teach us to see through the darkness being spread over all of us. Ignite a fire among us that exposes and reveals and beauty of the fullness of creation that heeds no power other than the power of peace.
If these fear-filled and evil days that are run by clowns whose vision of the-good-life-for-themselves is really a coming day of doom for the rest, then let us hold a day of humorous protest - a march of fools - a comedy special - a liturgy of laughter - a parade that witnesses to the fact that the emperor has no substance - just faux-golden promises that leave everyone else out in the cold. But imagine if an ocean of people - left out in the cold by the master of gold - flooded D.C. - with laughter that is able to brighten the dark days at hand. Imagine prophetic laughter spilling out across the country - from sea to shining sea - making note of how the ways of tyranny count on us not hearing the lies or smelling how crap attracts flies - when things begin to rot from within.
Come, All who can see and hear free of fear. Come.
Come. Lights that darkness cannot extinguish. Come.
Come, The least and the lowest whose laughter cannot be halted by any power. Come.
Come, Those who can turn a phrase that brings truth into the darkest days. Come.
Come, The way, the truth and the light. Come.
Darkness will not prevail.
TRRR
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