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Richters Rant Grows Up

Hey anyone who reads this.

I just canned a lot of useless political rantings. Mostly its because people don’t appreciate nuance combined with the amount of time it would take to make my rants more than just an angry blog of toxic bleh.

So, not killing the blog, though not writing it for over a year helps. Just killing the useless turds that don’t really show me growing and trying new things. I want to make some professional work, and it’s not worth it to have to defend hot takes from the past in order to be taken seriously.

Here’s to the new. We’ll see if it goes anywhere.

The Trustmobile Is Out of Gas Apparently

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There is the notion that in order for our society to survive, we need mutual trust in each other as citizens, and in our institutions as arbiters of knowledge and resolution. Today may have been the day that I realized just how jaded I was. Because today I went to the grocery store.

As I was ready to check out I came across two aisles with lights on and attendants at the register. The one at the empty register was engaged in some general busy work and helping with a question for the other’s customer. So before unpacking my cart I leaned in to confirm:

“You’re lain is open?”

And then to my shock, I got a response so casual that it broke my mind.

“Yup. Light’s On.” As if to say, ‘sir, you may trust your eyes’.

I saw the light, I knew it meant the lane SHOULD be open, but I couldn’t bring myself to believe that as soon as I put something on the belt that I wouldn’t get a stern talking too about how the lane was magically closed and they were going on break. I didn’t trust the basic honesty of a light at the supermarket. How my trust issues play out is quite amazing.

Even when faced with my own cynicism, I can’t help but feel that the cashier was filled with a casual naiveté. The world IS objectively cruel and awkward plenty of the time regardless of how we choose to respond, so is it really so odd that I needed to ask? Isn’t this person who insists that the light means what I know it means somehow fooling themselves too?

I don’t know the answer. Maybe it’s both of us fooling ourselves about how we choose to buy into a system. Maybe the cashier needs to wake TF up a bit. Maybe I need to find some trust in the small things that don’t actually matter.

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I DID IT!

I finally decided my writing was worth a crap and am now going to post my works on this website as well as some of my more unhinged rantings about the world, politics, and humanity.

I hope very much for you to take this journey with me!

ALL the love, Ed