A title she had violently resisted whilst consolidating her thoughts, for not only was it gratingly overused, but also intrinsically militant and repeatedly misused with respect to an all too convenient shifting of responsibility away from the self, and yet after much deliberation nonetheless emerged as the most able contender, from within a painstakingly curated lineup of vocabulary, to describe a phenomenon that was object of both her horror and fascination the moment she quite literally stabbed a pen at a piece of paper that was already contaminated by the clumsy documentation of an untraceable stream of consciousness, the kind that many contemporary writers might exploit for its obscure tones and evocative tenor …
… But in spite of her best efforts to curry favor with her imagination, she had proven to be helplessly sublunary and thus blind to the literary potential that lay within the creases of the piece of paper on which she persisted in trying to describe the convoluted sentiments she felt desperate to neutralize, borne of her inability to stop watching the latest season of Emily in Paris, which had very quickly but thankfully only momentarily, not only undermined her self-respect, but also almost fatally compromised her recently acquired and somewhat precarious intellectual pride; after all, it was only 5 years earlier, at the age of 46 that she discovered she wasn’t quite as much of a twit as she had previously thought …
… Or perhaps in the end she was, just like everyone else, the ongoing decay of the human faculty of reason, intuition and most notably intuitive reason, set in motion by a ‘three way ambush’, to use military parlance i.e. ’encirclement’ by a tsunami of information, ‘maximizing firepower’ by creating dependence on science and technology, and the ‘psychological impact’ of the interplay between the hypnotic mantras belonging to the woke ideology and those recited in defiance by its critics, the last of the triad by far the most deceptive and powerful in puppeteering the ousting of the fundamental tenets of civilization and hierarchical social structures as being inequitable and oppressive – when they had, in reality, helped establish and sustain a certain order in community and society – leading to a dismantling of frameworks and shedding of disciplines in all spheres of life, right from dignity of personal conduct to a minimum degree of coherence in artistic practices governed by a regulatory body of criteria, to the unshakeable and impenetrable rule of law in international politics …
… But to come back to the point of her micro-essay, she couldn’t help but feel that should season 5 of Emily in Paris have been categorized in the genre of ‘Fantasy’, the quality of integrity might have prevailed, as opposed to the sheer cinematic charade that ensued in the absence of sound creative content, capitalizing on a captive audience and brazenly violating both traditional pre-algorithm adulterated basic common sense and discerning sensibility, in the same vein as the political theatre between Presidents Trump and Maduro that culminated in a spectacularly staged and televised show of the latter’s arrest, in complete contradiction to the conventional ‘covert’ modus operandi of the CIA and its ilk, all whilst posturing as ‘reality tv’, which the same ‘lobotomized’ audience (of which she had come to the sad conclusion she herself was a part) eagerly lapped up, making its characteristically vigorous and invariably fruitless social media displays of standing either for or against …
… but then as 20th century surrealist Spanish artist Salvador Dali once said,
“What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.”