A lot of people ask me if it's difficult to write the news.
They know I have to spend the majority of my day diving into the madness that most people try to contain for the sake of their sanity.
It's partly true: There is nothing easy about watching people get thrown through the air in a car accident, or people getting stabbed and shot, or grown men thrusting themselves at kids at a "family-friendly" drag show.
Evil is so dang prevalent in our world, but it's worth reporting and it's worth fighting. Hiding from evil doesn't make it go away.
No, it isn't the news that gets to me. It's this:
See, there are things that should shake us to the core and make any red-blooded man or women speak up for truth and justice.
This is the reason Not The Bee was founded. Our speciality is writing stories that could easily be taken for satire over at The Babylon Bee. It's news that no one would have believed was real just five or 10 years ago.
But our goal is not simple outrage. We aren't here to get you with the clickbait headlines and the "gotcha!" straw men. Sure, we're human, but our goal is best summarized in extending the Bee's mission of righteous mockery.
When you shine a light on clown world – when you make people aware that it is not only clownish, but that they can laugh at it – it changes the battlefield.
Being allowed to poke fun at something is to undermine its power.
And why wouldn't we laugh?
You think the modern high priests of wokeness are any less silly than the prophets of Baal who paraded around an altar, cutting themselves while they cried out to their god?
Yes, this stuff is serious. Little kids are getting carved up, those that survive are being brainwashed into hating themselves, drugs and criminals are pouring over our borders, our bank accounts are draining, nuclear war is on the horizon, and the people in charge are only concerned only about getting their own 10% for the Big Guy.
But laughter puts it in perspective. It bruises the ego of the powerful, it shows the emperor that he has no clothes, and most importantly it reminds the elites that there is a God in heaven who Himself laughs at their plans. As Psalm 2 says:
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers conspire together against the Lord and his Anointed One:
'Let's tear off their chains and throw their ropes off of us.'
The one enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord ridicules them.
But this is the problem I face: There are many out there, on both the Left and the Right, that exist to keep you in a perpetual state of anger and fear. The last three years has seen more of this than perhaps any other time in history.
And you're tired of it.
Yes, you still care about rooting out evil, but you're tired of it.
You've come to expect the most outrageous thing you could expect in the headlines. Even Not The Bee can't surprise you anymore. You are wise to the media's games and trust nearly no one these days.
I see it when I share stories that would have been major breaking headlines just a year ago and they barely get "meh" traction.
Society is going to hell and you're checking out. Let the barbarians take the gates if they so wish.
This applies to both sides of the aisle. We now live in the state of national and civilizational divorce where the two sides aren't talking to each other. I've never experienced anything like it.
But whatever is about to happen in world history is happening with us as a small part in it. Wishing it was not this way and ignoring the problem is not a strategy – it's merely a retreat. There are real lives and real souls at stake. We must speak up publicly, with all the tact and poise and courage that we can muster, and we must continue to do it.
You don't have to be constantly outraged. In fact, living in perpetual rage will destroy you. Just look at the woke acolytes and their Twitter rage. It is eating them alive.
The sad part about my job is that as I hopefully encourage and inform you, you will naturally gravitate toward those things that are superior to salty internet articles: Real face-to-face conversations, action in the public square, and life lived to the full.
But never forget: You do need to fight.
