The Fashionable News Cycle

Just when my anxiety gets agitated it needs to transfer to yet another crisis: once, it was the crisis of the ozone layer growing and the near immediate danger of losing the delicate composition of our atmosphere---and then the heavens seemed to have healed. Then terrorist acts shot up and blew up our news. Of course the news came clothed in such political burkas that we never could see the ideologies behind them. And then right on cue the next crisis was how the NRA wanted citizens to keep their guns and their 2nd amendment. (No matter that bombs and rental trucks are often the weapon of choice). Then when people forgot in a couple of days the blowing up of bystanders at a marathon, or the casino carnage or the baptist church being 'cleansed' of its racists with an automatic rifle then another direction. A politician who forsakes his cancer-plagued wife to take up with another younger gal reveals that the globe is warming is lauded as one of our modern secular saints (good thing he didn't stand up for the 10 Commandments is all I can say); of course it followed that the somewhat compromised phrase GW morphs magically into the more accountable Climate Change and this convinces even more, for who can refute the fact that climates do, in fact, change? Then in short time once again we are rebuked for the rampant racism, sexism, homophobia, islamophobia as the epidemics of this country so many third-worlders seek to risk their lives to come to--- in spite of this well known infamous fact of our country. Then we have the placards, the facebook posts, the NO PLACE FOR HATE rebukes of anyone that dares to utter even a squeak that we should have a moratorium on the 'refugees' from countries that export to us many that would be our enemies. Of course this news never gets stale these political sins of us, bigoted Tea Party bullies. And we are only confirmed as such for our terrible lack of tolerance for the trans-teachers of our children and shamed to at last conform to be celebrants of our educated Heffner-Youth. And now, at long last we are reaping the great harvest of our sexually liberated world where the great harvest of harassment accusations from feminism's empowered Woman (of course we immediately convict all the accused and don't wonder at all if there is any political manipulation involved because of course we are not conspiracy theorists). And certainly we have revised our 'who am I to judge' stance to become the judges and arbiters of all the Social Justice transgressions we can come up with. All I wonder is: what will follow when 'harassment' loses its cache? Perhaps it never will. Either way, I'm sure seeing how we gravitate to the latest fashion we will assiduously adopt whatever we are given in the next news cycle and proclaim it as evangelisticly as once our ancestors proclaimed another very different gospel.