It's always interesting to watch the stage crowd behind Trump during his rallies (or any politician really). It's hard not to overlay a narrative. Who are *you* person on that stage? What is your story? Where do you come from? I genuinely want to know.
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| This is your life? |
Despite what I try not to assume about you I also know your story has truth to it. There is a reason you're up there. That you lean this way or that. What winds blew you here?
Latest event. Where this time I do not recall. The footage flies by so fast, the words blend into one long preamble for the future. There's a young man on stage up there next to what appears to be an older male relative. Or not, maybe they just met. Chatted a bit, Hi, how are you? Exciting isn't it?
Trump mentions that if Hillary is in China, in Tienanmen Square (of all places...) and collapses, they'll just leave her there. Those Chinese. Those tough people. He says in genuine admiration.
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| Good Samaritans, one and all. |
The crowd jeers, cheers and laughs at his wonderful statement. This magical thought. This shared image in their minds of another human being down and out. She deserves it.
Of course not *really* a human though, right? She's just a concept, a figurehead, a politician, America. It really is a brilliantly populist piece of speech, as these things tend to go.
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| Rally and inspire. |
Yet the image in the shared collective imagination is of someone specific struggling on the ground, older, weak, sick or unconscious, needing help, people walking about, ignoring them, maybe even walking over them or more.
Let your imagination run a bit as to what that scene might look like to some in that crowd. What they are cheering for in their minds eye.
On stage, the older man nudges the young man with his elbow, laughing heartily. The teen gives the man a sideways look we've all done. Part "yes, i got the dad joke, dad" and part something else. The teen looks quickly around the room, he's not laughing. Eyes a little wider, brow a little more furrowed, lips a bit tighter.
Just for a second it's the open expression of someone seeing something for the first time.
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| Hypersurface Observations |
Maybe taking it all in.
Maybe he gets that what just happened isn't really all that funny. Isn't just a dad joke. Isn't quite the world he wants to build a future in.
But then again I could just be putting up a story. Out of context and out of mind. Just words.
So many words.
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| Kindness is just another word. |
