Three strikes and you are out
This is not a baseball game
Society is in a very interesting dynamic at the moment. I wasn’t going to write about this, but I decided what the heck! I see this subject all around me. Many maybe scared to speak up which fuels more of what I am writing about here. I am not letting any of this effect my daily machinations in my pursuit of always attempting to improve myself. However, that doesn’t mean the current state of what is labeled reality is reality. I have never allowed society to dictate to me its many ignorance’s that go as the status quo, but the three strikes do impact how I navigate my personal pin map. These three strikes will cause dramatic debate and I hope to spur thoughtful dialogue but not agenda base balderdash.
As I write this on 8/23/99 11:56am these are the three strikes I see in regard to myself! I am a black male! That has been strike one for my whole life…. lol! Not a problem though that is just the cards dealt in America. Strike two in the current America if you are not gay, trans or as Mr. Dave Chapelle say’s part of the ‘‘alphabet people’’ you are not a favorite son! Certain parts of society and the Biden administration are giving you the message by their choices and budgets. The media is also telling you the messaging. Also, the black woman is depicted as winning! She is statistically the most educated person in America according to the latest stats in America. I am happy for the black woman because if you study American history, she has been through the wringer by being at the bottom of American society underneath the black male! Now what is crazy she has to define ‘‘what a woman is’’ as the supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson had to do during her nomination! Now finally strike three is what I call the microwave! I am unvaccinated which means in NYC and many big cities you are persona non grata! It has been a delicate tap dance for me just survive not interfacing with this overwhelming element of society. If you do not agree with that narrative, you are an outcast at the moment still. People assume you are vaccinated which has happened to me several times in 2021 - 2022. I am just hiding in the crowd. I need to get back into the world of fluidity where life doesn’t revolve around this ‘‘public health emergency’’. My life doesn’t revolve the vaccine and PCR test! I just happen to understand my body and have access to scientific knowledge that told me that the vaccine narrative was a ‘‘red herring’’ at the heart of it and was handled incorrectly.
I hope you now see what the strikes translate to in my vision at the moment. I feel like a ‘‘little green man’’ from Mars. It was quite exhausting for I feel no reason. As a black man I never felt that way. I could use a job at the moment, but it is about that shot in so many types of jobs at the moment that I could just slide into for a brief moment. I feel I have enough ‘‘virgin intellectual property’’ created to launch myself back into society in another profession in the midst of this continuing dystopian madness. Right now, I feel discriminated against blatantly for the first time in my life!! As a black man I know discrimination on a first name basis. That was the reason why I avoided so many opportunities in my life to become a serial entrepreneur to make my own way from what I always felt was an unnecessary part of life! This vaccine discrimination sanctioned by the government, which is supposed to protect all of the citizenry, yet they did not during this time. The federal government has truly split the country into two halves.
This has also been psychologically overwhelming! I have a friend from the music industry who took the court stenographers course and went to a job interview after completing the course. He gets to the job interview, and all is going well he felt until it gets to the vaccination question. He wasn’t vaxxed at that point. He didn’t wish to put the foreign substances into his body. The interviewer said without saying that being vaccinated is a ‘‘Defacto job requirement’’ to secure the job. My colleague who doesn’t believe in the vaccine but needed the job to get himself right took the vaccine plunge! He contacted his interviewer immediately and told her he took the shot. He was ready to move forward. He felt he had the job if he took the vaccine. He was told he didn’t get the job. I found that so offensive that the person did this. I immediately thought of how many other people have gone through that. Of course, you can say she didn’t say he had the job but apparently it was implied that he had the job if he got the shot. At the end of the day, it was ultimately his decision is what will be said! He is just depressed in the moment. We are in a society that is cratering as it attempts to move into a post covid dystopian recession and inflation time period. His story is symbolic of this ever-growing predatorial society we are in now. No caring or respect is left in society now in my assessment. Everything is just a blunt instrument hitting the many unknowing individuals.
Three strikes are a very prevalent feature. For the record my colleague is a black male! It is not an excuse, but I felt I needed to be known. In this ‘‘dystopian reality’’ I found out my old library I wrote my first narrative ‘‘Live Digital or be Irrelevant’’ in the whole board of directors had shifted to LGBTQ! I spoke to some of the old-time workers who were afraid of the posture that was growing in the library. I am just telling people’s feelings.
As we march ahead, I will continue to ‘‘tap dance’’ to my next destination of being a writer/author/ and reactivating my musical career. I am also embarking on creating a content studio with some exciting I.P. I created during covid. I will be activating myself as a writer of critical thinking and discernment as we move ahead in this new expanded perilous time, we all live in. I will be bootstrapping my way as I rejoin society.
In reality, it is that last strike which is strangling the economy and labor opportunities. I wish to stay in my hometown of NYC because it is the media/finance capital of the world. Everything I am transitioning to is there. Mentally I am in the right place for how I perceive what is ahead. The negative though is that NYC is the petri dish and the lab/psy-op experiment of covid? I know I am not the only one dealing with this. I know I will have to challenge myself immensely. Now what will your mind allow you to do!