…[the] awful energy of striving after Certainty,
in a mythically thinking and highly emotional –fantastic age is quite remarkable.

“Grant me but a certainty, ye gods!” is the prayer of Parmenides,
“and be it, in an ocean of Uncertainty,
only a board, broad enough to lie on!

Everything becoming, everything luxuriant, varied, blossoming, deceiving, stimulating, living, take all of that for yourselves, and give to me but the single
poor
   empty
      Certainty!”

–Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays by Friedrich Nietzsche p. 104

Attending to the scrum of the Republican members of Congress makes the head spin.  Prudence suggests for inner stability, for maintaining personal equanimity — national politics, and especially the violent, verbal cacophony of congress be taken in very small doses.

Today the New York Times reported that a continuing resolution was passed into law by Congress to keep the government operating through March.  The measure passed, though fiercely opposed by ultra-conservative Republicans with help from the Democrats.  This compromise did not cause speaker Mike Johnson to be fired. Why? The last Republican Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy was fired for the same behavior. Johnson is an Evangelical. You know, that consortium of “true believers in Truth” who gather reflexively around their pastors on Sunday mornings for another dose of Christus Victor. The cult is the uncompromising proponent of Imperial Christianity, a fusing of church and state into a single self-immolating institution.

Just give  us,  but no, wait, wait — only me, and Veritas aeterna on a board broad enough for one to lie upon!

How about a tune?  This one works.  A reminder of just how ancient is this way of thinking:  Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling Stones, released in 1968.