Prurient Interests

Last evening I noticed another disconcerting Trump headline. This felt and smelled more like a deadline for disintegration than a lifeline, a bootstrap, if you will, toward integrity of health and regenerative safety, which I thought was front and center in our US Constitution which I remember him swearing to protect right before he reassured all of us he is here to listen to everyone; Republicans and Democrats and Libertarians and Greens, and whatever other ecopolitical party affiliations he might be able to discover and learn from on his new Presidential executive ordering journey into twitterland. Anyway, the headline was about White House Rumblings of an assault on the legalized and medicalized marijuana industry. My first reaction Why? Why would a federal administration that has just finished reassuring all fifty States that where students poop and pee in school should, by right, rest solely at the state level to regulate, then, almost in the next inordinate breath, also send out this alarming message to all fifty States that it has become a new federal health and regenerative, integrative, long-term through short-term, safety assurance issue that my kids should prefer the alcoholic beverage industry over the THC industry. I'm still wrapping my brain around how that could possibly be defended, construed, framed, promoted, marketed, sold and also bought, as a consistent reading of "listening to everyone" about their constitutionally protected federal rights to health and regenerative safety, to well-integrated, resonant, consistent, sane public policy. I believe it was a congressman, and not a "prurient interest" judge, who said he could not define ***********, but he knew it when he saw it. This Administration, to date, has brought us not only our first twitteringly Naked Disintegrative President, but now his fascist federalist tendencies begin to look more like jacking off in public, like pursuing his personal prurient exhibitionist fear-mongering agenda instead of paying even lip service to his true mandate, the health and regenerative safety Original Intent of not only the U.S. Constitution, but also the Bible he laid his right dominant hand on, and the economic and political act of active listening to a healthy-wealthy regenerative multicultural society of humane citizenry doing our best to follow our Golden Rule intentions to at least do no alcoholic-buzzed harm, cause no further dis-integrity, and, whenever and wherever possible, to follow a path of regenerative health, happiness, and multiculturing prosperity. As for DT2 himself, I suspect he would improve his governing outcomes by easing off the alcohol and investing more in some reefer madness, preferably while among a large, extended family, picnic, a multiculturing, multi-generational banquet. But, DT2 aside, this White House has already become the home of nakedly prurient interests, rather than federal and state health and integrative safety policies and procedures, regenerative planning and design, rather than degenerative reacting and assault and wall-building. Prurient--marked by arousing immoderate unwholesome (unhealthy, unsafe, unredemptive, non-therapeutic) investment in desire. With pornographic performance, we speak of a whole lot of immodest sexual desire, but with the current Executive Branch of ecopolitically competitive, rape and pillage, performance, we speak of a whole lot of immodest fear and war-mongering desire. The rampant raging desire to play WinLose games of naked competition for elitist supremacy on a WinWin Constitutional and Biblical and planetary climate stage. The key operative governance, administrative, executive skills, word here is "unwholesome" v "wholesome." Certainly we aren't intending to legislate what is "marked by arousing, sometimes even immodestly so, but still wholesome investments in regenerative desire." Wholesome is about regenerative multiculturing natural evolutionary, sacred nurturing revolutionary, co-redemptive, safe, healthy choices, even as these will inevitably lead, sometimes, on our best days, toward dopamine ecstasies. This, to me, and for my extending multi-generational, multi-cultural family, sounds more like a mandate to co-invest in health and safety industries, with or without THC, rather than investing further in the prurient, vaguely alcoholic, unwholesomeness of Nakedly Elitist AllWhite Houses.