Wishes

 

What a Fool Believes

But what a fool believes he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems to be
Is always better than nothing
And nothing at all keeps sending him...

And, despite Larry David’s wishes as expressed in the FTX commercial,  fools can vote.

 Republican Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) deleted a tweet Thursday that accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) of allowing CNN, or as Steube put it the “Communist News Network,” to build a TV set in Statuary Hall. CNN had actually used a green screen displaying that section of the U.S. Capitol.

https://www.wfla.com/news/politics/gop-lawmaker-deletes-tweet-blasting-cnn-for-full-tv-set-inside-capitol-that-was-actually-a-green-screen/

My son worked on the digital effects team that made the hologram where the dead Tupac Shukar appeared to be on stage with Snoop Dogg at Coachella in 2012. Without a trace of irony, a number of people wanted to be taken backstage to talk with Tupac. I would like to say that those people, and Rep. Steube, were just fooled by new technology and once they realized that there is this new technology, then they will no longer be fooled. However Hans Christian Andersen addressed the same thing in his story about the Emperor’s New Clothes in 1837. His story was an update of Spanish story from 1335 .  In these cases, no new technology was involved. 

The old adage “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride” applies. Just because you wish something were true, doesn’t mean that it is true. Be wise.