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William Shakespeare’s phrase in Macbeth, “Like a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and meaning nothing,” was the source of John Steinbeck’s title in the great American novel, “Sound and Fury.” We have chosen to borrow the judgmental phrase for the title of this writing, as descriptive of the plethora of baffling and outre declarations of our unconventional Head of State, Donald J. Trump. The latter’s unauthorized declaration of war against Iran was confirmatory of this Macbethian reference.

The American public is only too aware of the “sound and fury” of Donald Trump’s campaign assurances of lower consumer prices, universal peace, sound immigration policies, and of ultimate national and personal enrichment. As is analogously declared in “Macbeth,” such assurances are delusional and “signify nothing.” As an empirical matter, consumer prices have substantially risen, wars are escalating in number and tragedy, and American immigration policy has been discombobulated;’ yet Trump’s delusional pronouncements of universal national success, nonetheless, continue, unabated.

In keeping with his creation of the extant orange dystopia, Donald J.Trump has unilaterally and unconstitutionally bombed and declared a state of war against Iran, conceivably emboldened by his earlier unauthorized bombing of Venezuelan fishing boats, as well as in Yemen and Syria.

Relative to Trump’s recent unilateral declaration of war against Iran, the American public had previously been officially advised that he had destroyed Iran’s nuclear potential for warfare. Based upon his known serial mendacity, one can empirically assume that Trump’s avowed motivation, viz., the liberation of the Iranian people from tyranny, amounts to Trumpian ( ironic) Sound andFury, and that his motivation is otherwise, perhaps a diversion from his Epstein involvement or the damage done to the American economy.

Trump’s public declaration to rule as a “Dictator” and the National dysropia caused by the dynamics of such bizarre aspiration, undoubtedly identify the enunciated motive, as more “Sound and Fury,” or, in post-Elizabethan, abbreviated terminology, “B.S.”

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Following the relatively mild rebuke for his unconstitutional, reality-testing acts of arbitrarily declaring war, by the murderous act of bombing Venezuelan fishing boats, Donald Trump proceeded to the exercise of his delusional sense of unlimited power, to unconstitutionally bomb our nuclear-armed antagonist, Iran. The thematic “bone spur” draft dodger evinced no qualms in this recent, Congressionally unauthorized commitment of America’s Nation and treasure to his lifelong, insatiable ideation to prove himself singularly vested with unconditional and unlimited power.

We are again confirmed in our fundamental understanding that to understand the vagaries of Trump’s erratic and irresponsible actions and bizarre statements, one might conceive of him as analogous to the attention-needy child, who, in his neurotic desperation, would painfully kick his mother in the shins to garner her exclusive attention, regardless of the predictable retribution. To comprehend Donald J. Trump, one must understand that he personally subscribes to no dogma or political-economic point of view, in his monomaniacal and infantile need for adoration and recognition as a “winner.”

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His populist election was the effective enfranchisement of a veritable orange hazmat as the prime guardian of the American Nation’s security and well-being. The resultant dystopia is profusely documented and agonizingly described in our past writings; the latter writings cite demonstrable examples of his hapless incapacity and egoistic repudiation of the Constitution and of general societal morality.

On the international scene, Trump has confused and frustrated our traditional partners by his romance with authoritarian enemies, his broken or repudiated salutary treaties, and the weakening of America’s salubrious and historically significant relationship with NATO and other defensive alliances. More specifically and contextually, he had set aside the significant treaty with Iran, negotiated and successfully implemented under the (contrasting) Presidential terms of Barack Obama, regarding the peaceful audits, or inspections of Iran’s nuclear progress; such irresponsible, ego-motivated act, providing the thematic scenario for the contextual events, principally motivating this writing.

Trump’s audacious and unauthorixzed bomb ing of Iran, undoubtedly, with the smiling approval of Israel’s despicable Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is more than Presidential overreach; it is a petulant denial of recognized constitutional authority in self-interested support of his neurotically based, hubristic assertion of ultimate and absolute power. In the sub-rosa, tactical interest of the despicable Chief Executive, such a conspicuously irresponsible act provides a deflection from the shameful offenses relative to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, Trump’s demonstration of ignorance regarding the subject of tariffs, and his dismal failure to, as promised in the campaign, bring down consumer prices and improve the economy.

We are especially fearful, in the knowledge that, included in the available toybox of this “enfant-terrible,” reside the exclusive code numbers for the initiation of nuclear action, and will not rest easy until the beneficial time of his departure from office.

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It is pragmatically necessary that life in an interactive society requires the ability to exercise one’s judgment concerning the character and reliability of others with whom one has meaningful contact. It is wise to eschew initial impressions, conceivably based upon unrelated past experience or the subjective nuance of one’s judgmental personality. Nevertheless, it is vitally important that we entrust our friendship and interactive relationships to predictably reliable respondents, which necessarily mandates their perceptive evaluation.

The varied personal techniques in the thematic evaluation of others, regardless of one’s earnest resolve, will often empirically suffer from the stereotypical presence of past, analogous impressions with like past relationships and experiences, and thus be unfair and specifically incorrect. Fairness and accuracy require a more reliable yardstick than the unfair dynamics of personalized impression.

The testimonial experience of others, an employment recorortd educational transcript, and employment resume, when usefully available, in addition to the pertinent and indicative responses to relevantly cogent questions, are useful and appropriate, in an employment interview or, over time, in personal relationships.

One virtually universal consideration is the indicative nature of the company that he keeps as an objective indication of fundamental character and moral inclinations. Many years ago, on a visit to the historic site home of the great Norwegian composer, Edvart Grieg, we were greatly impressed to view a large, framed photograph of Maestro Grieg sitting at a large dinner table, in the company of many of the luminaries of his age, including Albert Einstein, and were duly impressed.

The chosen social ambience of the individual to be evaluated of, is an objective indication and constitutes the background for a dynamic portrait of his characterological tastes and intimate persona.

The extant, repulsive saga of the wholesale, box store enterprise of underage sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein is relevant to our present thematic mode of characterological evaluation. The decades of repulsive underage sex trafficking on the part of the murdered or suicidal Epstein make the fact of brisk social interaction with him a cogent factor in the evaluation of character.

Presently, among the rolling tsunami of media reportage, relevant to Epstein, former Democratic President, Bill Clinton has been summoned to testify and clarify his relationship with the degenerate billionaire Epstein, as a tactical diversion from the intimate and regular commerce of Donald J. Trump with the wholesale child sex entrepreneur; a thematically significant indicator of Trump’s unwholesome and perverse persona.

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Based on a multitude of empirical grounds, not the least of which is the National groundswell of opposition to the Trump autocratic policies, we are confident in the surgical excision of that orange, toxic excrescence at the next Presidential election, November 2029; the scheduled surgical procedure cannot come fast enough.

Similar to the recent scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic, the thematically painful political experience is capable, nonetheless, of universally instilling an empirical lesson; one, relative to the eternal vulnerability of our Democratic Republic, notably, in light of its significant number of inadequately educated and poorly informed citizens. Democratic existential pragmatic measures must now be taken, such as the mandatory vetting of all Presidential nominees and the constitutional and statutory elimination of “gerrymandering” and, notably, the Electoral College, so that each vote has an identical impact, in sync with the criteria of a true democracy.

The democratic selection of a competent and representative candidate as Chief Executive is the principal goal of the Republic, and any blurring or filtering of the popular vote mitigates principle. With the pragmatic selection of fit candidates and the unsullied computation of votes, the truly democratic nature of our Nation, as intended by the Founders, will be assured; and no repetition of the pernicious Trump-engendered dystopia will prevail.

Until such surgical incision and the period of convalescence, however, it cannot be justly said that the insalubrious and painful experience of the Trump Presidency has, conceivably, served no beneficial purpose, regardless of, or perhaps by reason of, its nightmarish quality. The Nation has, indeed, learned an existential lesson as to the vulnerability of a nation, “by and for the People,” by mandating a responsible approval and acceptance of all Presidential candidates, in light of the potential tragedy of another Trump-like malefactor.

“Wisdom through suffering” is the articulated, philosophical theme of the Classic Greek playwrights, and it is our view that the American public has, by reason of the experienced pain and suffering during the Trump dystopia, learned to accept the wise lesson of the empirical vulnerability of a Democratic Republic. For this eternal knowledge, acquired through personal suffering, we are obliged to give kudos and appropriate credit to the ancient playwrights: Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus, and then move on to a notably wiser National recuperation and restoration of our traditional posture as an aspiring avatar of universal human liberty and equality.

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“Graffiti” generally refers to the (unauthorized) marking or desecration of public spaces. While some examples do have a measure of artistic quality, when performed without permission is considered illegal defacement.

The graffiti or public defacement, relevant to the theme and context of this writing, has reference to the crass and neurotic program of our hubristic and tasteless Chief Executive, in directing his name to be displayed or added to our Nation’s prominent institutional edifices; the most recent such abomination concerning the “John F. Kennedy Center, Performing Arts Center,” in Washington, D.C.

Such obnoxious acts of neurotic hubris have been observed in such venues as the Trump Memorial Arch, Trump Park, the Trump Institute for Peace, and a myriad of other arbitrary sites, not to mention the plethora of public uses of “Trump Towers” on a plethora of buildings and public sites in New York and internationally. In addition to its crass nature, such widespread, public assertion of demonstrated ownership and celebrity, in our view, is revelatory of Trump’s lifelong, neurotic, insatiable quest for universal veneration and recognition as an eternal “winner.” The graffiti-like indulgence speaks volumes about his lifelong search for adoration and recognition as the avatar of successful celebrity.

Trump’s systemically impenetrable singular bubble shields him from seeing himself as the continuance of the “infant terrible” who would stop at nothing to attract exclusive parental attention. This compulsion has, presumably, been his systemically neurotic impetus from the days of his needy childhood to the present stage of his adult egocentric megalomania.

Donald Trump’s systemic absence of aesthetic sense and complete disregard for cultural matters seem not to mitigate his fervent desire to add his name to the Kennedy Cultural Center, just as his unauthorized declarations of war and errant authorization of bombing other sovereign states t appear not to mitigate his bizarre request to be awarded the International Nobel Prize for Peace. If awards were awarded for hubris or delusion, it would be empirically appropriate to grant Trump the ultimate prizes.

Trump’s misuse of Presidential authority to insert his name into the nation’s venerated institutions has the analogous significance and degree of public imprimatur as street graffiti. For the present, Trump appears to be in charge of the spray can.

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If there is empirical validity to the expression, “A picture is worth 1,000 words, Trump’s obligation as President to deliver a State of the Union address was adequately and accurately satisfied by his recent act in taking the wrecking ball to the East Wing of the venerable White House.

By “Mad Hatter” comparison, Trump’s two-hour rant can be described as an opium dream in which, under his tutelage, the Nation has been rescued from economic disaster and transformed into its systemic potential for international prowess and high regard. or, alternatively, a continuance of his systemic delusion and serial mendacity. The rant lasted almost two hours and left the listener wondering what Nation Trump was referring to.

It would be tempting to revisit the entirety of the delusional speaker’s articulated opium dream; however, we will leave that enormous exercise to the capable media and to the empirical criticism of the mainstream citizen.

What is most notable is the frightening dual alternative that: (1) Trump actually believes his grandiose cant, or (2) that he is cynically persisting in his lifelong practice of the sale of “snake oil.” Either alternative is alarmingly dystopian and frightening. The objective facts demonstrate the universal falsehood of Trump’s tactical braggadocio, marking him as a grifter-par-exellance or, alternatively, a delusional schizophrenic; neither is consistent with the appropriate context of a Presidential report to the Nation.

Because of its existential importance, we again restate our fervent plea that all Presidential aspirants be fully vetted before their right of nomination. The Democratic Republic is deservant, at the very least, of the prudent avoidance of another calamitous Donald J. Trump.

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Like other curious Earthlings, we are fascinated and inquisitive about outer space exploration, particularly the search for sentient life in some analogous universe. The many televised launches of rocket-initiated space vehicles for outer space exploration have become almost banal and mundanely commercial.

The study of the universe beyond Earth’s atmosphere focuses on the observation, physics, and evolution of celestial bodies such as galaxies, stars, and other planets; the latter, conceivably, harboring life analogous to that on Earth. The interest in this endeavor is shared by laymen as well as astroscientists, as shown, for example, by the popular television series “Voyages of the Enterprise,” fictionally commanded by the formidable Captain Kirk and his indomitable crew.

While, as declared, we share in the enthusiasm and mystery of space exploration, we are of the view that there exists, among our lay population, an insufficient interest and dedication to the understanding of Man’s own Planet Earth, its physical and chemical properties, ultimate vulnerabilities, and, of especial note, its diverse assortment of planetary inhabitants. It is conceivable that an exhaustive analysis of Earth’s physical properties may deduce certain answers to the presently unknown factors concerning the astral bodies observed in our telescopes. Notably, there are scientific findings on the Planet of minerals and other substances, known to be native to the Moon and other astral bodies.

Incentive is thematically cogently needed in the concern for the well-being of Planet Earth and its inhabitants, human and otherwise. It is at our existential peril to continue to condone ubiquitous acts of planetary peril by the irresponsible use of carbon dioxide-emitting fuels, causing global warming, land and water pollution, and irresponsible commercial destruction of trees and other naturally salubrious phenomena, animal and agricultural. In addition, the recent deadly pandemic is a reminder that vaccination and sensible health policies are to be scrupulously adhered to, to ensure the life and health of its inhabitants.

Ways must be found to ultimately eliminate war, secular and religious, which, empirically, have been the most egregious and consequential producers of death, physical incapacity, and human misery; and humankind must learn to practice peaceful acceptance of each other, regardless of nuanced physical differences, a fundamental goal, timelessly pursued.

With the tacit assurance of Earthly peace and the well-being of mankind, we can uninterruptedly accomplish its challenging goals, including exotic space travel and the exploration of the cosmos.

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In prior writings on the subject of the exponential digital revolution, we have articulated the felt existential difference between “can” (capability) and “should” (wisdom). Our regular readers are presumably familiar with our charge of dehumanization in the pursuit of convenient facility, with the universal substitution of “smartphones” for healthy personal interaction (in person, by telephone, letter). We have previously observed that the ensuing depersonalization and singularity, manifested by personal loneliness and insecurity (especially of the young), have been stated and reprised.

We have oftentimes expressed our concern about the proliferation of analogous digital robotic devices that seem to have emerged, exponentially, and profitably in the purported guise of “advancement.” Such a race for the substitution of human facility by computer-driven devices has evinced robotic airplanes and machinery. “Alexa” initiated entertainment devices and robotic, perfunctory appliances. Computer development companies have been in a breakneck race for additional software-based digital substitution of human labor and assorted hybrid systems. Computers enable mechanical robots to see, learn, and process information and summarily make decisions in real time.

We are resolutely in favor of advancement and ubiquitous progress, but are alarmed at the competitive race of digital robotic capability and the notable absence of responsible consideration of cost/benefit, or the societal impact, of the new developments. In our nuanced view, such a socially humanistic decision would perhaps have discouraged the unwise substitution of human interaction for a hand-held device, with small, lighted screens that merely record messages but do not convey interactive feelings. A responsible consideration of the social and emotional impact of cold and inexpressive exchange of digital messages, as opposed to expressive human conversation, might have delimited or prohibited the invasion of insalubrious smartphones as the universal means of (inadequate) interaction. In our view, this flawed development should have been the subject of ubiquitous and humanistic consideration regarding its insalubrious development and universal use.

The socially irresponsible march of profitable digital innovation, however, continues unabated in the feverish spirit of demonstrated capability, with little or no consideration of its empirical effect upon society and the individual. such irresponsibe lack of consideration is irresponsible and apparently seems unabated. The rate of such a lemming-like march to tragedy, in fact, worrisomely, seems to be accelerating.

The multi-eon period of long-term development of an intelligent animal, Homo Sapiens, successfully resulted in an upright-standing animal with the capability of reason and sentience. The natural dynamics of such brain development may never be known, but such a uniquely generous bestowal makes humankind singular among the Planet’s fauna and ultimately responsible for its own singularly admirable growth and development.

We are profoundly troubled by the recent dedicated aspiration to replicate the singular functions of the human brain by the competitive race of geek-scientists at Silicon Valley in their thoughtless race for the replacement of the human mind and, ultimately, the obsolescence of the utility of human sapience. The thoughtless adventure is empirically suicidal, like lemmings rushing to the cliff’s edge for ultimate extinction.

Recently, a computer-savvy friend had us listen to an A-I computerized conversation which was a replication of the exact theme of one of our writings, but related in other vocabulary, and discussed in robotic, mechanical) voices. This experience, apparently a simple example of AI replication, was shocking and profoundly frightening.

We would also demonstratively relate the substance of a television documentary film, which showed the exact AI replication of the classic sculpture, Michelangelo’s DAVID, which took less than 45 minutes.

We are puzzled and absolutely terrified by the zeal of Silicon Valley in its hubristic, thoughtless, and suicidal race to make the human being obsolete.

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We are obliged to assume that of late, Donald J. Trump has not been sleeping peacefully or ingesting his daily inventory of McDonald’s hamburgers. The Conservative Supreme Court of the United States, which had generally given him everything he desired, suddenly saw two of his nominees vote against him in the SCOTUS decision that his imposition of tariffs was unconstitutional.

Until that event, Trump had been exercising unchecked power in an autocratic fashion, perversely including subjects reserved by the Constitution, exclusively to Congress. In plain fact, Trump has exercised his authority as President with no regard for the Constitution, the Nation’s rule of law, historical precedent, or previous moral commitments. Like a petulant child, his hubristic conception of unlimited authority and executive entitlement has exceeded the limits of propriety and legality in his perverse motivation to demonstrate his avowed universal prowess and unique persona capable of domination over competing parties.,,

Trump’s policies and statements have revealed a unique, unhealthy conglomeration of feigned business acumen, intense insecurity, blind hubris, and profound ignorance. In a relatively brief time as the Nation’s Chief Executive, he has demonstrated unparalleled success in the transmogrification of the American Nation, historically emulated as a world leader and avatar of humanistic enterprise, into an incoherent, undependable, and, at times, dystopian nation.

Trump’s publicly stated intention to rule as a “Dictator” was confirmed by his purposeful disregard of the Constitution and legal precedent. In service to his monomaniacal fantasy of greatness, he has arrogated unlimited, ubiquitous authority to himself in intentional derogation of the tri-partite architecture mandated by the Constitutional “Separation of Powers.” He has unauthorizedly declared war, decimated the Federal Civil Service, employed the military for perceived domestic purposes, and exercised powers appropriate to the legislature.

The mainstream American citizen has been confused and, understandably, fearful for the future endurance of our venerable Democratic Republic. Recent arrogant and hubristic Presidential policies, potentially leading to the ultimate destruction of the American polity and way of life, have resulted in huge citizen protests throughout the Nation. Trump, notwithstanding, enclosed in his hermetically sealed bubble, seems to neurotically persist in his unconventional and dystopic rule, unchecked by legal or rational considerations and, to the thematic point, the Supreme Court.

SCOTUS’s meritorious decision, declaring the unconstitutionality of Trump’s imposition of tariffs, has been described by the media as a “bloody nose,” to Trump. In our considered view, however, it constituted a major blow to Trump’s hubristic ego. The High Court’s declaration of the illegality of his tariffs was the sinking of the analogical flagship in Trump’s inappropriate and presumptuous Armada of neurotic presumption.

Hopefully, it is the harbinger of a long-awaited and frustrated return to constitutional normalcy.

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It was to our astonishment, and, admittedly, a certain amount of satisfaction, that we learned of the arrest of Crown Prince Andrew, the brother of King Charles of England, founded in his years of close relationship with the “box-store” entrepreneur of underage sex, the late Jeffrey Epstein. In England, it appears, the principle that “No one is above the law” is more than an entertained aspiration.

If asked which two human developments were the most impactful and determinative in the development of modern Man, we would confidently respond, (1) The Industrial Revolution, and (2) The (slow) progress of female equality, legal, social, and economic. Society has gradually, often reluctantly, recognized that the cornucopia of human rights applies to females, as well as males.

It has required many decades of personal sacrifice, conflict, and humanistic effort to militantly and justly assert the equality of women in virtually every aspect of human experience, including the ability to contract, own property, vote, sue, serve as a pastor, divorce, serve in the military, and be paid equally to men. Gender discrimination seems to persist and dominate in many milieus despite statutory and judicial proscription.

Notwithstanding the acknowledgement of admirable performance in virtually every profession and occupation, in addition to their existential roles as the mothers of our children, too many atavistic bigots look upon our sisters and soulmates as secondary humanoids, capable of offering or denying physical pleasure to the male, dominant member of the human species. Such deplorable ignorance and neuroticism still persist, like tuberculosis, to confine the hapless victim to an irrational and unjust principal function of capable submission to the male members of the species for physical pleasure, i.e., sexual congress. Such a reductively ignorant, self-serving, atavistic perception of the female member of the multi-faceted character of the human species seems to unconscionably and unreasonably persist in all walks of life, notably, as we have just learned, in the Royalty.

The female of the species has, over the decades, endured the dystopic asserted dominance of the backward-thinking males despite its demonstrated performance over the ages. It has taken much overtly expressed dedication to reach the objectively humanistic conclusion that, like men, women possess the attained talents and capabilities, as facilitated by the human brain, as well as identical capabilities. The Epstein “petting zoo” is a fallback to a degrading, more primitive, and non-humanistic mindset. “Epstein sex” is plastic, degrading to both sexes, and seems psychologically unesthetic

In the Medieval Era, a Lord had the legal and traditional right to have the first sex relations with his vassal’s new bride on their wedding day. Today, the Crown Prince of England is enjoying the ambience of a County jail for his immoral sexual congress with a youthful female inventory item of Jeffrey Epstein

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