Good Morning Digitial Neighbors! Happy Monday ADD Irregulars, WSN Aficionados, Friends & Refugees at the Report, PHAM & Misfits of Phetasy and all the rest of your Conversants, Lurkers, Seekers and Lost.

Today's morning prayer was the classic battle of David vs Goliath. I think this classic moment known to believers and unbelievers alike speaks to both the lighter and darker part of humanity. On the light side we love stories of underdogs overcoming a greater and apparently more powerful evils. Some of my favorite stories, movies and videos are people who picked the wrong fight and got their ass handed to them. I don't care for the trend of calling fellow adults bullies when the behavior we are describing is just intimidation. I don't like people who menace, intimidate or threaten others. I suspect most of us don't, so when we see them getting put in their place it is a satisfying experience. Goliath shit talks the Israelites and he head literally handed to him after brought down to level by a simple sling stone.

The darker side of this story appeals to the envious side of human nature where we take joy in seeing people fail or suffer. It is with good reason that the first two stories of the Bible deal with pride, envy and anger. Pride screws the pooch of paradise and then envy and anger leads to the first murder between siblings. For too long the Enemedia (remember those self-appointed "Betters" ) fashioned themselves as the "David"s of society taking on all the Goliaths out there. They never cared that over time, in the last fifty years or so, they morphed into Goliath and made themselves the watchdogs of the Establishment. They constantly promote envy and division. I am still pissed about the Ferguson experiment that the media ran at the expense of that community and future planning for the Summer of Floyd (George - not Pink). The marketing of envy is a major industry and perhaps it always has been, but we sell dissatisfaction, resentment and entitlement to those who see themselves as less. These perceived Lessers find some sort of joy in seeing people fall and fail. If you or I find joy in seeing people fail and fall I can't help but think we are just dicks. It is judgment call after all, I do enjoy seeing puffed up people humbled, I do enjoy seeing intimidators picking the wrong fight and getting their comeuppance. But I do not enjoy seeing people fail or humiliated for the sake of entertainment.

I was never really a fan of America's Funniest Videos back in the day because too much of that humor was humor as the expense of others. Sure, one accidental hit in the testicules is funny, but week after week and nut-busting humor and people falling, running into things, or otherwise getting injured was not funny to me. At little is funny, too much not so much. I'll confess that the problem is mine, I know people I appreciate that enjoyed that show back in the day. Beauty and humor is in the eye of the beholder. Well, enough rambling my friends, Happy Monday!!!