This would be fun to watch, although I fear that Maduro might be able to kick Elon Musk's behind, so I hope it doesn't happen.

JUST IN: Elon Musk accepts Venezuelan Dictator Nicolás Maduro's challenge to a fight.

Just when you thought 2024 couldn't get any crazier.

Maduro: "Elon Musk. Whoever messes with me, dries up. Whoever messes with Venezuela dries up, Elon Musk.

You want to fight? Let's have… pic.twitter.com/rqvCphOsuJ

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 31, 2024

Musk criticized Maduro--in Spanish no less--and Maduro responded by challenging Elon to a fistfight. 

The world doesn't get much crazier than this, and to be honest, I have gotten so used to the crazy that this might as well be a typical Thursday. 

In fact, it IS a typical Thursday, come to think of it. Kamala Harris is being turned into a young, vibrant, articulate, and likable goddess by the media, President Biden is being lauded as George Washington, and Trump is being vilified. 

Typical. At least nobody I know has gotten shot at today, although the day is not done. 

Scott Adams, to whose podcast I am now addicted, argues that we live in a simulation and that the simulation is playing with us. There are hints all over the place that the world plays by weird and programmed rules and that we are getting messed with, and it sure seems like we live in something like the Matrix. 

I don't buy it, but I see his point. Things are so weird that hardly anything makes sense. It often seems like some malicious or at least weird Olympian gods are messing with the world, so why not assume a programmer is playing with us?

I am more inclined to think that we are living in a period in which civilization is falling apart. Civilizations are defined by rules, norms, shared expectations, and a largely shared moral view. A culture, if you will. And our culture is crumbling, and it's pretty hard to see how a new one that works pops up and get an idea of what that will look like. Will it be a new dark age, or a sorta functioning post-Christian world that functions reasonably well? 

I suspect the former. And if so, Christianity may rebuild and the cycle renews. 

What do I know? Only God does for sure. 

What I do know is that if you step back a lot of bizarre things are happening, and some of them are hilarious. Like the tyrant in Venezuela challenging the world's richest man to a fight, and the world's richest man accepting. 

Now that is funny.