Letters: Society is fake

It’s not just the constant posing for cameras.

It doesn’t land squarely on the hyper-intellectualized and outrageously grandiose movie and TV productions, the fabulously bloated happiness of TV and pharma commercials, and our magnificently festive but hypocritical holiday preparations.

It certainly is not just the shovelfuls of make-up on our faces, the wild costumes displayed in our game shows and theater performances, and the virtualness of our games and sports.

It can’t be limited to the pornographic exaggeration of human sexuality, the overdramatic presentation of the nightly news and the endless repetition of obvious falsehoods in social media.

It’s not simply the disinformation apparatus of our governments and political parties. Nor is it due to the factional operation of our justice systems, the turgid thanks-for-your-service commendations given to our military and other demonstrations of easy-come, easy-go patriotism.

It is not merely the braggadocio of our university professors and administrators, and the ongoing pattern of superstition in our religious denominations.

It’s not all about the incredible pretentiousness and ostentatious glam of the wealthy, the endless pitches for more luxury and more spending and the idolization of all things material in the marketplace.

It can’t be pinned totally on our ghosting of social relationships, our fictionalizing of marital promises and the abandonment of our duty to children.

It’s also — wait, that pretty much covers it all. We are a completely fake society from A to Z.

Kimball Shinkoskey

Woods Cross, Utah

Biden

bashed

I try not to think about the crisis on the border here with Mexico. It has become abundantly clear that this administration and it’s immigration tsar, Kamala Harris, will not come to the border, El Paso, Laredo or the RGV, no matter how many letters are sent by the state and local mayors and judges.

HidalgoCountyRichard Cortez has begged for an audience with the elusive Joe Biden at least twice in the past year to no avail. A local radio DJ played Elvis’ “Return to Sender” after the news was read about Cortez’s last letter when radio play resumed; whether it was coincidence or DJ humor about the Cortez letter, I believe the latter.

It is sad that this is happening because the true cost of this mass illegal migration will not be known for years and undoubtedly become the tax burden of our children and grandchildren, but I will say this: My training at the FederalLawEnforcementTrainingCenter at Glynco, Ga., included several courses in U.S. immigration law that covered migrant processing. We were taught the requirements for entry into this great country of ours, and that admission was a

privilege and not a right and entry to the United States could be rejected if certain criteria were not met. The laws have not changed, just the administration that handicaps those charged with administering the law, and the aforementioned premise no longer exists because sadly we no longer live in a sovereign nation of law, but instead a country without borders where thousands enter daily forcibly, without that right, exercising a privilege given to them by the

current resident of the Oval Office.

Jake Longoria

Mission