Rants in the Pants, Episode 92-It’s a Secret

Created at: October 14, 2025

Well, you’ve got your Secret Agent Man, Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Secret Garden, Secret Squirrel, and a host of other secret movies, cartoons, books, and TV programs as well as Victoria’s Secret. What’s your secret? We all have secrets and it’s intriguing to hear somebody has a secret, but SHHHHH! Don’t you tell anyone my secrets! Especially the one having to do with Secret Squirrel…

There are a lot of reasons we keep secrets. There are just some things you need to keep to yourself. These secrets are to protect yourself from judgement by others you might not want to be judged by. These are all little secrets that don’t mean much in the large scale of things. Who the hell cares, anyway, if he wears a toupee or she looks bustier because of a padded bra? That fake suntan you don’t tell anyone about isn’t going to hurt anyone either. I would like to know the secret place you hide your chocolate….

Of course, some secrets, while they are on a scale that is small and personal, are able to do others harm. Say you are secretly infected with an active herpes, and you don’t tell your next sex partner about it before you go to bed with them. Hmmm. Bad secret. Maybe you come home to your wife and kids from work, and they think you are an executive in a firm when you are really a Mafia hit man. Boy will some people be disappointed when that secret is uncovered! Yes, some secrets are uncomfortable, some are destructive, some can cause harm. But we are talking about something on a personal level here. That’s a level that affects others but isn’t even a ripple in the big pond of society.

Let’s play a little game of secrets. Suppose you are working for a boss and your job is to stack boxes on pallets. Your boss tells you that you need to stack 24 boxes without opening them on the next pallet but there are 25 boxes total. He says that you will need to bring him the extra box and that if it has a gold coin hidden in it, you’ll be rewarded. If it doesn’t, you will just be given your regular pay. But the boss has a secret. The secret is that there is no gold coin in any of the boxes and one of the boxes will explode if you pick it up.

WoW! What a crapper your boss is. But wait! There’s more. Another secret your boss has is that they have a pool with a bunch of other bosses, and they are betting on whether or not you will get the box with the boom! In it. These bosses are definitely psychopaths.

Actually, this scenario is not bizarre enough. More bizarro please! Coming right up.

What if you are paying all of these bosses to make and enforce rules that you must follow. You are paying them to boss you. What if despite the paycheck they get from you, they are still playing the box game as outlined above? What if someone tried to tell you, a veteran of 250 pallets without a boom! what was going on? That your bosses didn’t care for your safety and only cared for the money they made from the secret game with the other bosses? You’d fire those bosses, right? Sorry. No, you wouldn’t. You would burn the person telling you this at the stake and the bosses would get a raise. It happens all the time in Amerika.

WOOOHOOO! Hard hat area! Conspiracy theorist at work! Don’t believe a word he says. He’s not only crazy but dangerous.

Actually, this is what is happening. Not all of the bosses are clued into every secret, but they think they are and that makes the system work. That is, work against you. Under the blanket of NATIONAL SECURITY, a lot of things have been hidden. Advances in science and medicine that would spin your head and blow your socks off. Real reasons for conflicts that cost a lot of money and kill and maim a lot of people (but not the bosses’ sons and daughters), aliens from space, secret underground cities and lies told to us about the money system we all believe in, Hail Mary full of grace!

With all of these lies, we are supposed to make informed choices about who will govern us and what they will do. But we can’t do that. Our vote is woefully uninformed. Don’t worry! Be happy! They have figured it all out and are more than willing to shoulder the responsibility of us going broke, not having medical care, poison in our food, and such. Yes, they will willingly shoulder the responsibility, that is, until some little truth somewhere, such as the damage the mandated vaccine has caused, is brought out into the light. Then they will all run like hell while disavowing any connection to whatever problem they have secretly created.

What a wonderful world we live in! All of its impurities and problems get to be blamed on, guess who, us. We are causing it by our adherence to consumerism, taught like a religion in our schools. We are causing it by our greed- especially using too much toilet paper, taking long, hot showers, and breathing out too much CO2. Our driving habits and insistence on going places, our eating habits, which are finely tuned by a ton of advertising, once known as propaganda, and our lust for chocolate, are all causing problems for planet earth. Yes, we are terrible people and certainly deserve to have all these secrets around us that keep us uninformed and in line.

Secrets! Aren’t they wonderful?