Life is not stranger than you think

Albert Einstein once said " Life is not stranger than you think, life is stranger than you can think".  Albert was right.  Who would have thought we have a delusional nut case like the Donald for president.  Would anyone have imagined the conflict that might come from two crazy people, one in North Korea, and one in our own White House?

On a personal level look how life's events have unfolded.  How did you end up sitting in North Dakota?  Could you have ever imagined that you would go from your front porch in Wheeling, West Virginia to your backyard in Hazen, North Dakota?  A lot of strange twist and turns have taken place in 68 years.  Many people turned out far differently than one would have expected. People you knew who excelled in school turned out to be duds.  Several of the duds you knew turned out to be excellent business people and created fortunes from a vegetable stand.  Kadizzle grew up with a lot of privileged kids.  The children of the fortunate with many opportunities turned out to fail at a rate Kadizzle never would have predicted.  If one thing in life is predictable, it is that life is unpredictable.

Something always comes from nowhere and the world changes.  Strange connections take place and life turns.  Age is magic in some ways.  If you are fortunate enough to live long you get to see the end of a lot of movies.  Life is just a series of movies you are watching. We got to see how the cold war ended. We got to see how it went for Ben Laden.  Many people were pulled from the game before they got to see so much of history.  Mrs Kadizzle has been caught up watching the Ken Burns series on PBS about he Vietnam war.  A lot of truth is now public about how that mess actually took place. The people watching know things so many dead people don't. 

One thing history has taught over, and over is the ease with which people can be taken into an insane, hopeless, fake cause.  Sadly so many of us do not look back at Hitler, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, and the whole cadre of mad men that have shaped the world.  Instead we get taken in over and over by the same false promises, the same bluster, the same cons.

The strangest phenomenon of all is the abundance on Earth.  There is enough food for everyone, there is enough material to provide decent housing for everyone,  the means are available to eliminate so much suffering, yet we do not. Instead we build tanks, walls, missiles, and bombs.  We let a very small portion of the planet live lavishly while children starve.  Nothing has changed in thousands of years.  There were tribes herding cattle in Africa two thousand years ago.  Every one in the tribe had enough to eat, a warm place to sleep and their only enemy was a lion.  Today trainloads of pure unadulterated crap are shipped from China.  As we bring boat loads of stuffed animals from China we have children living in slums, roads crumbling, and some silly rich guy telling us he is going to make America great by lying every day.