Definitions by Monkey's Dad
vaccutemporal
An experience of life without time. The absence of a temporal dimension. An extension of simultemporal experience, in which past, present and future are equidistant and simultaneous.
Having grown accustomed to simultemporal experience - living time all at once, rather than sequentially - he was increasingly forced to acknowledge states which were vaccutemporal, wherein the sense of time in any form dissolved.
vaccutemporal by Monkey's Dad August 7, 2021
Olive emoji
A texted signal meaning "I'll live".
A silent life-affirmation, a promise of survival from someone who has been injured, is gravely ill, incapacitated or in pain.
A silent life-affirmation, a promise of survival from someone who has been injured, is gravely ill, incapacitated or in pain.
Lying intubated in the COVID ward, she could not speak and had no strength to respond to those who were writing, expressing their concern. To each, she simply texted an olive emoji, and all was understood - "I'll live."
Olive emoji by Monkey's Dad August 3, 2021
Newsmocks
A nickname for Newsmax, spoken quietly by some of the network's performers, paid to broadcast the far-right party line, whether they believe it or not.
"Next up on Newsmocks", intoned the host in his dressing room, "security camera proof of Fauci in the Wuhan lab. Don't go away."
Newsmocks by Monkey's Dad August 3, 2021
Tribal Identity
The historic root of human dysfunction. The sense that each of us belongs to a group - or tribe - from which we derive our idea of who we are, what we call ourselves, what we believe, whom else is a member and who is excluded.
Whether rooting for a sports team or voting along party lines, we divide ourselves into 'us' and 'them', as humans have done for millennia. It leads us to war. At a minimum we endure a chronic state of para-warfare.
He could not fathom how she had voted for Biden! She in turn looked with speechless amazement at his mindless devotion to ... she could not bring herself to utter that reviled name! Neither could ever change the other's mind by an inch. They were exemplars of tribal identity, each believing their side was right, the other side wrong, the finding of middle ground a fantasy for Springsteen/Jeep commercials during the Super Bowl - itself a tribal enactment - and nothing more.
He could not fathom how she had voted for Biden! She in turn looked with speechless amazement at his mindless devotion to ... she could not bring herself to utter that reviled name! Neither could ever change the other's mind by an inch. They were exemplars of tribal identity, each believing their side was right, the other side wrong, the finding of middle ground a fantasy for Springsteen/Jeep commercials during the Super Bowl - itself a tribal enactment - and nothing more.
Tribal Identity by Monkey's Dad July 27, 2021
Vaxxophobia
An extraordinary percentage of the American population was infected, if not yet with Covid, then with vaxxophobia. Sitting glassy-eyed and slack-jawed in front of their TVs, an American vaxxophobe listened to paid performers on Fox and Newsmax, all of whom had been quietly vaccinated, tell them that Covid was nothing but a liberal hoax, that the vaccine would allow the illegitimate Democratic government to take their freedoms and to monitor their location at every moment. If they didn't believe it, they could look it up on their smartphones.
Vaxxophobia by Monkey's Dad July 25, 2021
vaxxophobe
"If I die, I die", she said. "I'm not letting anyone convince me to get that shot". And no one convinced her, and she went maskless to her early grave, a proud vaxxophobe, and an example of how America had been made "great again".
vaxxophobe by Monkey's Dad July 25, 2021
vaccophobe
"If I die, I die", she said. "I'm not letting anyone even try to convince me to get that shot". And no one convinced her, and she went maskless to her early grave, a proud vaccophobe, and an example of how America had been made "great again".
vaccophobe by Monkey's Dad July 25, 2021