A Wee Break to Cleanse the Mind
A Wee Break to Cleanse the Mind
It was Needed.
Well, the Septics have cast their vote in the Wrestlemania final to decide which idiot forgets nuclear secrets in a nicely furnished room somewhere. I have to say that my lack of output during this period has been studied and intentional. I wrote a lot during the UK election and found it profoundly unsatisfying. Not, you understand, because I have no influence, but rather that it was a distraction that continually forced me to gawp into the gaping maw of political communication, spin and desperate garbage that politics in the Anglosphere has become. It is not like this is a new or original take, nor one that many have missed; it’s just the all-pervasive nature of it. There is little respite from it all online or in conversation, and I decided to take a break.
But now, as the ballots are cast stateside and we in these most un-united of Kingdoms have watched hope for change evaporate like stink off a sun-blasted turd, I thought I would (very briefly) opine on it all. It is all so fucking stupid. People back these chancers like football teams, investing in hope and belief instead of reason. Seldom do people change their minds, and when they do, it is because the choices that govern people’s lives are boiled down to slogans chanted by those in a football crowd rapture. If you are one of those in such a crowd, whoever you support, know you have my eternal loathing. It is fucking moronic. Sure, it is nice to be enthused about things, but when your enthusiasm is for dogmatism, you’re hardly likely to help those around you, are you? And from Elon Musk bribing voters to David Lammy making weak-sauce excuses for Kier Starmer taking undeserved handouts, it is all just political comms and PR masked pure, unabashed dogmatism.
The main theme is simple: We all work harder for less cash while stuff costs more, and we are increasingly unable to exert power over anything. Nobody has any solution for that, as they have zero interest in doing anything about it. The tangerine liar-in-chief has remarkably little to say about his tax cuts driving US inflation, while the Demotwats like to parade their coterie of so-called progressives to mask the fact that their legislative agenda is little more than business as usual. In the UK, Labour has shown that it is perfectly willing to continue to tread the path the Tories have, only dissembling better about tax increases. The war in Ukraine rumbles on. Housing is still a global scandal, and healthcare is the number one source of bankruptcy in the US. Israel continues with genocide, whilst politicos here and in the US use that as a gross cudgel to call out/berate their opponents. One has to wonder how many children have to die before it becomes obscene.
Indeed, in recent days, the racist Reform Party have increased their support in the UK, all while we sit marinating in the melted waste of our public services, and I am left to wonder, just how fucking stupid we can all collectively be? So there you go, that rather explains my silence. I am rather frazzled by it all. That and I have been busy with work, which explains the complete halt in my creative output. I have missed creative writing badly, and engineering does nothing to fill the void.
Anyway, I hope you are all well. Who knows, maybe when your candidate wins, the world will be perfect again. The smart money is never on that being the case.