Lena, Theresa and Hillary

I should be already up and slapping paint hither and yon. Today is the day we face the school room, transforming it from dingy white to apple green (that’s the plan anyway), and maybe tonight is the night I stay up and put everything in there, or not. I’m not really good for thoughts and decisions after seven pm.

But instead of leaping up I’ve been lying here hiding everything in my Facebook feed, which is what I do when I become overwhelmed by life in general–I take it out spitefully on my online community. Facebook, and maybe even Twitter, brings the whole world together–my concerns can become your concerns–and oh my word, I just don’t have the mental space to accommodate the entire world. Mother Theresa, Lena Dunham, and Hillary Clinton–all mushed together in one ridiculous cyber hour. I clicked on all of them and then wanted to claw my eyes out.

See, those three people are not the same as each other. One of them, indeed, is no longer corporally with us. But Facebook is the great democratizer. So we can think about all three of them at the same time. But really, in a sane universe, you wouldn’t. You might read about one, and then go wash your dishes, and then read about another, and then go lie on the floor and weep about the state of humanity.

I must say though, the Lena Dunham thing does fascinate me. I read a long dumb piece explaining to me that she is actually a neo-conservative, see, cause she’s rich and as dumb as a brick. I was surprised to discover this, because I am a political conservative, and, though not by any stretch of the imagination poor, I’m not really part of the 1%, whoever they are. And I wouldn’t place my intelligence in the same category as Lena Dunham’s. She’s not an ideological conservative. She’s an ideological narcissist. It’s not fair to blame that on politics.

Mother Theresa, on the other hand, not so fascinating to read about. Lacking the bedrock narcissism, the jaw doesn’t drop open when you read about her life. She just seems so sane, there’s not a lot of moments to spit your coffee all over the screen. Hmm. What was it she said? If you let a mother kill her child before its born, how will you be able to stop anyone else from killing? So you take a coherent world view, and it allows you to think your moral way out of your own dismal paper bag? I guess maybe that is astounding in this day and age.

Speaking of which, had to run home from church yesterday, having forgotten the coffee milk, and was unsurprised to hear NPR’s drippingly sycophantic reporting on Hillary Clinton. They cannot CANNOT understand why so many Americans seem not to trust her. Is it because she’s a woman? It must be because she’s too sincere. We don’t deserve her, We Don’t! Oh what will we do to help her be as loved by all as she deserves to be! I whispered to myself that we do indeed deserve her. In a world where Lena Dunham is a celebrity, and people are actually writing nasty things about Mother Theresa, we do indeed deserve Hillary Clinton.

Yay Women! Yay Feminism! I’m going to paint. Have a lovely day, if that’s even possible.