I blinked and it was 11:30 tonight 😂
I last remember it being 10:15. Liz and I had just finished watching the CNN/HBO Max documentary on the Heaven’s Gate tragedy from 1997. It’s so good! I highly recommend. Deeply personal stories about what happened. It’s one of the better series of its kind that we’ve watched this year. I really, really enjoyed it.
And then bam! It’s way past bed time.
Part of it was that we were looking at photos of the pups on our phones. It’s time for the holidays, time to put together a family card so we can send it out to loved ones. And that involves looking at photos from the year, which sucks me down memory lane.
What a year, you guys. What a year…
2020 has been a lot. A. LOT. But, here we are. Almost at the end. Still kicking. And life is good. Really, really good. A lot I can’t even share yet. But, I will. Soon-ish. Heavy on the “ish.”
Man, I tell you, one of the things I’ve learned this year is that anyone can get sucked into a cult with just the right timing in their lives. Anyone. It’s not a personality type. It’s just being approached at the right time. We’re all susceptible to manipulation. All of us. Cults use the same tools to get buy-in and conformity that every society uses. I think that was the realization I had tonight with this documentary; cults use exactly the same methods, just turned up and intensified and concentrated.
Good doc.
Night, y’all.