
© Off-Guardian
Even though it isn't a nut, reality is especially hard to crack these days. But if you closely observe daily life all around you, no matter how superficial it may at first seem, you will catch many glimpses of why this may be so.
The signs of falsehood are everywhere here in the land of make-believe, for those willing to decipher them.The big lies and deceptions of politicians, intelligence services, and their media minions have their counterparts in trivial encounters where, as Melville said,
"A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities." Such smiles plaster not just human faces, but appear in the signs and symbols of the wider culture everywhere you look. They are meant to tranquilize with trivia. They are offered as bait to induce people to stop worrying and be happy as their leaders smash the world to bits.
I recently chanced to look down the cereal aisle of a supermarket where my already florescent-irritated eyes were further dazzled by an entire row of technicolor boxes of the garbage that Americans eat to begin their days. First came the poison laid low down for the kids so they can reach the traps and pester their parents for what
would better be served to rats.These I passed, only to stop at a big orange yellow box that was advertised on sale. I had seen it before, just as often as I had seen pictures of Van Gogh's sunflowers adorning dentists' offices and funeral homes, twin bright colors before which we are beseeched to smile and be happy like Vincent. The cereal was General Mills' Honey Nut Cheerios.
At the center of the box in large letters outlined in bright orange screamed the words "made with REAL HONEY." I quickly grabbed a box since I am always searching for reality, but then it struck me, as I fell off my horse like Paul on the road to Damascus (not today's bombed Damascus), that such an assertion was strange, for the cereal is called Honey Nut Cheerios, which would imply it was made with honey.
So why are they boldly asserting it is?
Comment: The New York Post adds: Democrats are dumb enough to say the quiet part out loud: