| Style before Substance. Isn’t that what life is all about? Who would ever bother about facts when you can have beautiful talk? How blessed are we as a nation to have all those great lawyers in Washington who represent us with their eloquent speeches! I find it so saddening that their approval rate is a mere nine percent, when they use the very best of Shakespeare’s vocabulary in such random ways that the sheer delight of listening to what they appear to be saying between the lines of their magnificent vocalizations is so often misrepresented, since it is the empty space after all that fills the world around us, just as the probability of a proton being shot through the center of our planet all the way to Australia and hitting any nuclear particle on its eight thousand mile journey is infinitely small. Yes, I tell you: it is the nothingness that counts, the space in between the lines, the emptiness of the words! Any affirmation to the contrary is pure propaganda! Even though propaganda can be very smooth and charming and elevate us to this wonderful sense of beauty, comfort and security, which we just lost during the past nineteen sessions of the US stock market, when eight point three trillion dollars were lost in this country. But who cares about zillions when you can admire the beauty of a loss, which points to that Zen Buddhist notion of emptiness with its infinite calm that suddenly overcomes you when you look at it from that very different angle, even though angles have something sharp and unpleasant about them, which we have to gracefully overlook; but overlooking is the thing to do, since it points our sight far out towards the horizon, the sunset, the stars and the serene notion of eternity, which we always have a tendency to overlook when we follow the false priorities of putting substance before style and beauty… |