On the Earth where stimulus marijuana was long-standing commonality, the pandemic claims no lives and is actually unheard of, as everyone is busy at home finishing their childhood coloring books. Nobody there is slinging Molotov hashtags online either, as literally everyone is otherwise preoccupied with relearning how to make emojis using punctuation marks instead of the smiley shortcuts. In blackouts they giggle at how little cursive they retain, forgetting to panic.
Every last one of us is far more alike than not, we have far more in common with one another than anybody would ever care to confess and that’s the grandest comedy and the gravest tragedy. It is too easy to feel infuriated by what we experience in public spheres and online weirs, by how so many others present themselves as less intelligent or experienced, or more destructive than ourselves, and how futile it would seem to leave prospects for any happy ending. I hate feeling that way, because it accentuates my own weaknesses.
The divisions which led to this lack of universal standards for testing, allowing the contagion to persist and spread, will outlive the virus itself, even as the inevitable reality of vaccinations in the hands of for-profit initiatives assures the contagion will be around for years. But that is our normal culture, egos vying for personality cult centerpieces. There’d be no cause to deplatform if people could stop platforming those screaming to be centers of attention to begin with. Economic collapse, racial disparities and pandemic foot-shooting are only side-effects of empowering and enabling egos. Catering any ego has inevitable results. The notion of events like Neolib billionaire Mark Zuckerberg and Neocon billionaire Robert Mercer uniting for the lucrative prospects stemming from the distortion of online experiences of millions of users, as an example of groundswell populism, is a bit that’d make Howard Zinn roll in his grave. Contrarily, pundits accusing protesters of only finding objections when paid to do so are revealing how they themselves approach society with the rationale that objections can only be found when paid to do so. The public sees pissing matches within news media, paid media itself missing the irony of it charging *the media* of fakeness or culpability in whichever partisanship. Actions replicated by senates and parliaments of the western world because both fields of governance and media answer to the same omni-dimensional eudaemons who are incomprehensible so naturally wires get crossed. It is embarrassing, to say the utmost least, how we’ve no universal framework for apolitical, nonpartisan R&D/damage control to regulate egos and thus end these cultural side effects, what the government is theoretically tasked with performing on the clock.
There were times in the year prior to the pandemic when over a million Chinese citizens were protesting in their streets, against extradition and police surveillance. How can anyone believe the west’s wealthy would finance something so big that doesn’t directly swallow their cum. The USA military has been used to break up domestic labor strikes in the past, Zinn noted many occasions of it. Today, anyone not working is ostracized socially and demonized legally because it’s PC to hate the homeless. Yet still, refusing to participate is the only way to really challenge society. Our current headlines are fucked up, but law enforcement could be sweeping citizens into debtors prisons by the thousands and the majority would still rationalize it as somehow necessary. It feels like the majority live in abject denial that they’ve more foreign military bases than all other bases of all other nations combined and multiplied, without counting our domestics. Most vile are those who can rationalize the biggest, costliest military in world history. It won’t just take a lot of discomfort, it will take WW3 to break the habits of Capitalism. I don’t see any other purpose in this life but that.
Any protest that brings discomfort to the defenders or perpetrators of the problem which provoked said protestors *is* the right way. That’s the idea. Meeting a rapist or murderer halfway is self-defeating, confirming PC centrists as sadomasochists. Among the limited mental resources fetishing corporate IP, cops/military favor the Punisher more than Captain America because the one is all about lethal force while the other contrary to some tone-deaf writers just has a shield. They know defense is not dividing and conquering. Genuine tragicomedy if violence against the protestors results in lawsuits getting thrown at right-wingers over accidental abortions caused by their beatings and poison gas. Like they’re inferring maybe it is okay to abort but only if doctors used weapons banned by international law from fields of combat. So many clips of cosplay cops piling on protestors, and I keep thinking if the protestors put down their phones and countered with even a tenth of the violence some of these protestors could avoid hospital stays.
And the masses need to be more independent. But this is not arrived at by blowing smoke up the asses of anybody. It is not the lack of wealth dividing them, but that wealth can only perpetuate itself by actively distracting the have-nots from abandoning their codependency to bias, fetish and whims. Because if the masses were to ever find less value in their own bias, fetish and whims, then they’d be less likely to continuously reward and platform the most self-serving among their numbers. Maybe a society dependent upon catering to egos objects to eating the rich because being recipients for the golden showers and mud-baths resulting from the gluttonous overreach, we already know deep down their taste is neither remarkable or particularly sustaining. It is the deepest fucking insecurity to be afraid of capping maximum wages. Like without the safety net of millions or billions life would be impossible, when most of us are scraping by regardless of the bullshit and humiliation. The only people who truly need a nanny state were raised by actual nannies themselves, nannies who were too scared of unemployment to smack hands of grabby little brats as needed. The entitled just need some gumption alright. Some 3 or 4 years back Eric Schmidt gave an interview to one of the bigger webzines, where he was given the chance to explain his attending Burning Man. There was a creepy line about wealth affording new experiences, and extreme wealth eventually meeting with a lack of new experience. Kings entitled themselves to private harems throughout history, no discrimination of sex or age, but the Q pathos hinges on the unfounded claim of certain wealth possessing any moral fibre to take offense at such practices by competing wealth, when wealth/power is demonstrably *not* accumulated by virtue but explicitly by the lacking thereof. When Trump is so desperately insistent on praise he even brags daily about things that are simply not true, like the USA leading the fight against covid, then if Q’s assertion he’s been proactively hunting sex-trafficking rings were real he’d never shut-up about it. Considering the people, places and events he’s been drawn to over the years, all given a pass by paid media generally, I was kinda waiting for Robbie Martin to be the one to accomplish this depth of research on Q, a phenom so infuriatingly stupid I could not stomach digging far myself.
I don’t want to change the USA, I want it ended. Saying elections matter is saying all a serial killer needs to reenter society is a fabulous makeover, or that a gun will bring people back to life if someone different pulls the trigger. It’s not what the gun is designed for. Imagine hearing George Carlin’s words today and thinking it’s reaching the conclusion a third party is the solution to systemic failure, like the answer to a fixed fight is just having more boxers jump into the ring in the final round as if the ref and judges will reconsider their cut and let nature take its course. I honestly tried to piecemeal a detailed platform for working within the system to make it better despite me being a high school dropout, generous with one-liners, but at day’s end I realize even common sense is fantasy in our modern era. I don’t want to renovate the White House, I want to burn it to the ground. And Wall Street and Hollywood, because I prefer virtues to a land of catered ego. I’m not down with exploitation or extortion no matter the song and dance and yoga pants. We can strive to bring back the virtues, or we can be members of a Capitalist society where egos are rewarded and strengthened, but we cannot have both. There is no such thing as salvation without sacrifice, not with regards to spirituality, or finances or foreplay.
Annulment of society. “Mulligan!” cry village elders, physical exhaustion of their gluttony catching up with the mental depletion of their greed, gratefully stepping down from the soapboxes which enabled constant trickle-down of golden showers and mud-baths that kept the masses unwashed. There being nothing convenient or comfortable about revolution is what necessitates revolution. I’d say protestation is the physical version of desperation, not a casual hobby and sure as shit not a for-profit endeavor. What are you yourself truly desperate for?
Now instead go fight for a thing which does not enrich you specifically.