Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. It changes from day
to day, from hour to hour, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. You can
do your best to manage it, but the catch is that no person is an island –
unless you became trapped on your own during the lockdown/etc., and that has
its own issues – and you are co-existing with your fellow humans with their own
personalities, character traits and etc. It is not a problem… normally, after
an entire month – and we still have about two or three weeks left at least – is
another thing, and you just cannot help but to fight, even if you normally hate
fighting. Why?
Because all people are different, all have their unique
personalities, and you have to co-exist by compromising. Normally this works,
but the lockdown/quarantine/etc. has sharpened this issue and now everything is
slowly marching to a boiling point, pardon the mixed metaphors. The Donald
isn’t the most popular politician in the U.S. right now, but he isn’t entirely
wrong when he began to dismantle the (self)-quarantine issue – it cannot last
forever and people are going out already, whether they need to or not. Humans
are social animals, true, but all are social in their own way… and in the
Western society this individuality is the main social ‘sacred cow’, closely
related to its’ political counterpart, the ‘democracy’. Put otherwise, as I may
have written a long time ago, but still, in the person of the Donald, their own
petard hoisted up the U.S. society & government… and now the Democrats got
Joe Biden to oppose him. Pause.
I don’t have anything against Joe Biden, but the fact is
that he got elected by the Democrats is because he’s safe and mainstream, which
is fair enough…only the Donald is neither of those things…hence why he may’ve
gotten elected in the first place, back in 2016, and odds are, he’s going to
get re-elected in the election-2020, because the Republicans aren’t going to
bring down a winning horse for as long as they can help it. Moreover, thanks to
COVID-19, the Democrats do not really want to win the elections-2020, lest the
end up being responsible for handling the medical disaster. With Biden at the
help, it is a safe bet to assume that the Democrats are likely to lose and
remain the opposition that criticizes everything but is not really responsible
for anything.
…Oh, sure, given that the Donald has his own problems… or
perhaps, is his own problem, there is a chance that the Democrats will win,
(and it will be interesting to see as to what they will do… from the other side
of the Canadian-American border), but this isn’t very likely, because if they
wanted to win, they would’ve had Sanders as their main man instead. The man is not perfect, he is quite controversial…but at this moment in time and American
history, this might be just want you need to have to win, and this is why the
Democrats flocked to Biden instead. Anything else?
Well, for a while I wanted to revisit the camels today,
especially the dromedary, or the one-humped camel. As we have discussed them
back in April, camels are amazing animals, but they need more recognition - maybe
Marvel can put them into one of their upcoming movies or something – but you
know it is spring. Flowers are blooming outside, songbirds – and waterfowl –
and birds of prey – are flying outside, the weather is clearing up, and we are
largely stuck inside, rarely going further beyond our backyards, because of
COVID-19. This is dumb, stupid, idiotic, but what can you do? Even Americans,
Canadians, and the rest of the Western folk have a limit of defying authority,
and it is lower than in RF, where defying the government is one of the
cornerstones of society… but even so, there is still some upholding of the
lockdown/quarantine/etc. going on…
…Okay, this is it for now. See you all soon!
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