Today’s world is fraught with anger, vengeance, disinformation, climate issues, wars between factions inside a country and others between countries. I’m not sure where it will end, but the apocalypse is possible.
What to do to hang on to hope?
Well, there’s Zzub, zzub as well as there is anything.
Zzub, zzub is the answer to the question: “What do bees say when they fly backwards?”
Zzub, zzub is the first joke my son, now 56, intellectually “got” when he was four. We’ve used it ever since in a variety of ways. Mostly as an affectionate phrase often at the end of a telephone conversation.
Think about it. In its most elemental form, the question and the answer are well suited. But, since my son and I are somewhat existential in our thinking, zzub could be the answer to many things when people have a ‘lightbulb’ moment.
Will there be chaos after the November election? Zzub, zzub. In this case, it could mean “Let’s see what happens if we look at what came before.” Will a certain team win the World Series (which is really misnamed since there are no teams from other countries outside Canada) this year. Zzub, zzub, which means let’s see what came before. And make an educated guess or a critically thoughtful conclusion of what will happen next.
Perhaps zzub, zzub could be a place holder in conversation while people think through their ideas and present them cogently. As in “Let me zzub this and get back to you.”
It’s not really about flying backwards. Rather it’s about the realization that things are connected. And if it’s good enough for bees, maybe we should pay attention.
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