Do I Think Too Much? Do You? What Would Brigid Do?

They Say Ignorance Is Bliss. Is it Really?

There are times I can really appreciate the idea “ignorance is bliss” because I think too much.   About the sexualization of Evangelical liturgy leading to the desire for political strongmen, Epstein-envy or pedo pastors.  Or patriarchy's denial of emotions, intellectual laziness of MAGA, etc.   I wish I could just flip a switch and turn my thinking off, but alas, this is my Virgo blessing/curse. And being a Goddess advocate, I know what Brigid, Goddess or Saint, would probably do, just as we know what Christ Consciousness might suggest.

So I’m also thinking about the measles outbreak going on right now, which reminds me of the people who stopped talking to me because I didn’t believe the conspiracy theories about vaccines or how I alienated an anti-vax friend when I said I felt like a caged animal in my house during Covid because people on my little conservative mountain didn’t want to wear masks.  Or I remember the fellow in line at the post office who spit at me when I asked if he was in line for mail (because he wasn’t wearing a mask) and one was required when picking up at our post office during the pandemic. 

I think about the people who can’t afford groceries, those who don’t care about women bleeding out in parking lots because their local ER won’t treat them, women having their miscarriages investigated or my brown neighbors being picked up by ICE for no good reason and being disappeared.  I think about the women and men I know who apparently believe racism and sexism can exist harmoniously alongside love and unity.  And the people pushing gullible women into Trad Wife lives and jumping on Elon Musk’s “no empathy” train because they think he’s got the secret sauce because he’s rich.  I think it’s pretty obvious with some critical thinking wealth does not automatically come with healthy values, competence or ethics. 

I’m thinking about all the New Age and New Thought people who refuse to watch the news because it’s a “noose” and fear the discomfort it brings up because it might disconnect them from The Flow or block their Ascension to 5-D.  So they haven’t a clue and meditate on a candle to decide who to vote for – true story.  I asked in my last newsletter - should we be concerned MAGA is jumping ship now probably just because groceries are too damn high and not because they’re re-thinking their values and ethics?

Which brings me to a podcast I heard recently from those two fearless gals on IHIP News on Youtube, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan.  The more edgy one. Jennifer, was beseeching Democrats to not try to curry favor with bigots.  One either believes in universal human rights or one doesn’t and this is no time to relinquish our values and try to cozy up to people who can’t recognize evil.  It begs us to question who do we want in our immediate circles?  Are we okay with people who don’t value human rights, diversity, equality and inclusion?  Then she read a very moving and astute post from someone called Agent Self FBI which appeared on the X platform:

MAGA isn’t drawn to Trump because he’s smart or competent. They’re drawn to him because he tells uneducated and insecure angry people that their stupidity and ignorance is actually strength. 

He gives them a script where nothing is ever their fault. Blame immigrants. Blame elites. Blame Democrats.  Blame anyone except the person in the mirror.

He turns racism and sexism into political identity.  He makes being uninformed feel heroic. And MAGA eats it up because it saves them from having to grow, learn, change.  They don’t want leadership. They want validation for being ignorant – and Trump gives it to them every day.

The IHIP gal, Jennifer, went on to say Trump and MAGA embody intellectual laziness.  They validate and enable rigid black and white thinking.  They are upset, emotional and angry and their psychological worldview prevents them from evolving because it’s just too painful for them to grow. I think this might also address much of the toxic masculinity and male loneliness as men have been conditioned in patriarchy to deny their emotional needs so many have no emotional maturity but they never look inside themselves or look in the mirror or raise their internal bar.  It’s easier and takes less effort to just blame feminism, liberal women, or Democrats.  Their big ass amygdalas are just too damn afraid of everything!

Then there’s something else that contributes to the MAGA attitude;  the sexualization of Evangelical liturgy.  According to former pastor Darante’ LaMar in his religious deconstruction videos on Youtube, Evangelical worship culture blends “Daddy/Father” language with bridal devotion, takeover metaphors (“fill me,” “consume me,” “have your way”), and surrender scripts that turn submission into a love language. When devotion is both eroticized and infantilized, intensity gets read as “presence,” hierarchy feels like intimacy, and adults can be trained into dependence as a spiritual virtue. That doesn’t just shape personal spirituality—it shapes leader/follower dynamics, creates conditions where secrecy and boundary collapse thrive, and helps explain why “Daddy’s home” strongman politics lands so easily in cultures built on father-frame authority. It also explains who some have few problems with the Epstein sexual abuse scandal, why congregations forgive their pedo priests or politicians.  You can learn more here.

Yes, I think this exactly reflects my thoughts and observations these days. It’s not the answer to everything but it’s a concise observation, a thumbnail sketch.  I’ll spare you my other stray thoughts still needing a file folder for now.  And maybe now that I’ve written this down for clarity and gotten it out of my head I can flip my switch and just go play Mexican Train or try to unravel the mysteries of the Akashic Records.  

And I can conclude with certainty that Brigid, Goddess or Saint, would surely be in support of us all raising our awareness and never switching off our wisdom and critical thinking - even when knowing makes us uncomfortable and especially if our morality calls for us to take action!

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