Tag Archives: critical thinking

“An historical event,” unless you read history.

“No one saw that coming,” unless you were looking.

“Totally unexpected,” unless you were not thinking.

Trite sayings tell us more about ourselves 

than the events described by talking heads

who always seem to be surprised

so listeners can feel honored to be let in on

some great mystery that defies

reality and makes room for conspiracy

to feed on shards of factual disarray and we

are left bereft of truth in a fragile democracy.

“Garbage in, garbage out” warned Sister Robertine.

Her warnings have now come true it seems.