Bill And Ted’s Excellent Election

Most of the final day remains, even in the eastern swing states. Not that I deliberately waited until the eleventh hour to send vibes (or the eleventh week, as cynics of the new trend of having a long window would say)…although stretching out the window can delay us if we find any temptation to tend to something else first, like having to unwind last night.

Or to justify our limited effect on events by “arbitrarily” designating our nudging for the purists who waited for the designated day with purpose, or to greet the vibrations we released. If God cares about voting, [preferred pronoun] cares about the procrastinators and undecided as well, something tells me.

I think the Biblical story about using versus hiding your talents should have included the option for delaying them, but maybe that would have been too confusing for a less evolved species, just as old TV shows had simpler plots. Or maybe writings had to be limited because paper was a lot more expensive back then. If Biblical scholars are always on the hunt for new topics I humbly offer this if they haven’t thought of it. I have no idea whether it’s a new idea or a very old one but it’s the thought that counts.

I only cite the Bible because I happened to think of this example. It’s neither a denial nor a repudiation of wokeness, nor was it an effort to dig up a sectarian example. Had an analogy involving yoga or scientology occurred to me I would have exercised similar due process.

And who can say we were wrong to wait on what some might call election prayers? Maybe we generated the signals so they could be fresh and strong at the time they were received, just as some foods for what used to be known as a party would be cooked just before the event so they could be at their best then, rather than prepared days in advance.

I wrote a number of articles in the last few weeks, certainly not before all early voting began. I wasn’t doing them to pass a course by the due date, but because that’s when the ideas hit. While this may seem to fly in the face of Divine Inspiration, intuitives and their ilk — and I don’t use that word pejoratively — say something to the effect that the answer can’t come until the question does.

Maybe ideally it should have hit sooner so they could be distributed in a market-tested manner. But if that had happened, maybe then I could have stopped and never considered the more subtle possibilities of a later action, and never theorized the beneficial effects of a delay — or more such effects than I already have.

As Bill said to Ted after finding the keys he previously stole to be prepared, if we’re too busy before the report to go back in time to steal them, you have to do it after or it won’t happen. “But it did happen.”