It seems that everyone has an opinion on all topics in the universe. From politics, health, culture, society and sex, Americans voice a myriad of disparate views. Almost all these opinions are built on a house of hypocrisy. The result being a loss of truth, honesty and courage. Yes, courage because it takes moral and ethical personal fortitude to speak against one’s own deep held beliefs.
In a broad sense and on a national political level, President Biden is chastised as a hater while simultaneously former President Trump is likewise viewed as a man of vitriol. It is rare for Americans to analyze the context of speech whether political or apolitical. We mostly react to what is deemed weaponry in our attacks on free speech. Context is a mere afterthought. A real-life example a few months ago was my calling a local candidate for office a political prostitute and posting my endurance photos online. Taken in context, this person was beholden to special interests with untold financial resources and voluntarily accepted payment in light of their cause. I was training in the 117-degree heat of Borrego Springs and wearing nothing but a thong bikini. So, surrogates of this person said that I was calling their candidate a hooker and posting nude pictures online. All of this was obviously false and sickens the American political dialogue.
Transcending everything we espouse as truth, is our common human condition, fight and flight syndrome and humanity’s weakness in extolling truth. Lawrence Kohlberg, a preeminent child psychologist, has written volumes on moral stratification in youth. The Jesuits posit that a child’s moral guidance comes at age seven. Except in America, we do not elect saints but expect sainthood of our politicians. Fanny Foxe aka “The Argentine Firecracker” and Wilbur Mills, Gary Hart and Monkey Business, Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton and finally the grand champion, Donald Trump and a who’s who of porn not to mention the debauchery of a Miss America contest run amok. American hypocrisy raping our collective souls of personal and national morality. All of this with neighborly straight faces and a smile.
Outside of politics, how Americans view sex, health and mortality is probably the most egregious assault on truth since the days of Cleopatra. A seventy-year-old man with a body and mind of steel working out in his garage wearing a thong bikini is reported by neighbors to police while the same neighbors fly Pride flags as a testament to their moral hypocrisy. The San Diego Police Department themselves marched in San Diego’s Pride Parade. Americans fear nudity and skin as the coming of the locusts in the Western Sahara. Has America ever considered the health import, the truth, the beauty, the happiness and well being of being naked in nature. The answer is no because we have more citizens on drugs than anywhere in the world. The new normal by assimilation is a nation of drug addicts and these same people reject a natural; loving healthy lifestyle. American social constructs manipulate our gullible minds into believing that older people are bingo loving lounge chair lizards who can not walk or care for themselves. Most people believe this false narrative. It is all too sad to continue. Daniel Smiechowski Bay Ho —-FORMER IRONMAN AND CURRENT ENDURANCE ATHLETE
