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Christmas Eve (1865)

©Philomena Famulok

I posted something yesterday. It wasn't a rant. It wasn't an opinion. It was a simple, unvarnished, inconvenient **truth**.

I slept on it. And when I woke up, the realization hit me like a bucket of ice water in a burning house.

**Nobody. Gives. A. Shit.**

Not a single, solitary damn.

I was a fool. An absolute relic. Standing in the digital town square holding up a raw diamond, only to realize everyone else is happily trading in polished rhinestones and painted dog shit. And they’re having a *great* time.

The world doesn't *ignore* the truth anymore. That would be polite. That would imply it’s sitting there, waiting to be noticed. No. The world actively **reviles** it. It’s an allergen. A party pooper. A wet blanket on the glorious, screaming bonfire of absolute bullshit we’ve all decided to dance around.

We don’t live in a world of mistakes or misunderstandings. We live in a meticulously crafted Theme Park of Fraud.

* **Hoaxes** are the roller-coasters—thrilling, communal, a shared scream into the void.

* **Phony profundity** is the overpriced cotton candy—colorful, sweet, dissolving into nothing the moment you consume it.

* **Fake everything**—news, faces, outrage, compassion—is the park’s architecture. It’s all there is to see.

And the truth? The truth is the rusted, “OUT OF ORDER” sign on the broken water fountain in a forgotten corner. It’s an eyesore. It’s an inconvenience. It suggests something isn’t working in the Happy Kingdom. So we look away.

We can’t handle the truth? That’s too passive. We **don’t want** to handle it. Handling it requires callouses. It requires standing alone. It requires putting down your curated persona and your dopamine drip and actually *thinking*, with the cold, hard light of reality shining on you.

It’s exhausting. And it’s lonely. And the crowd roaring with laughter at the latest digital clown show… they’re not.

So I’ve taken it down. That post. That little slice of truth.

Why? Not because I’m scared. But because I’m disgusted. I will not be the fool providing rare wine to a crowd that only wants to drink fermented gutter water. I will not shout a coherent sentence into a stadium where the only goal is to make the loudest, most senseless noise.

Let the carnival have its night. Let the lies spin and the fakes flourish. The tent is all theirs.

My page is quiet for now. Because casting pearls isn’t just futile before swine—it’s an insult to the pearls.

The truth can wait. It’s patient. It’ll be here, cold and hard and real, long after this circus has burned itself to the ground on its own cheap fuel.

Until then, enjoy the show. I hear the next hoax is a real banger.