Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. It looks as if the
U.S. - Canadian borders are still closed, though some family members can still
come across. Of course, what with the current ‘civil unrest’ in USA, there is
also a question as to who is enforcing the border closure, (not that Canada is
doing that much better), but…
…But first, let us be honest – a fair chunk of our family’s
misery is our doing, if necessary, I could come back home, to Canada, but it
would be worse for some many reasons that I do not want to get into, so that is
that.
And second? Let us not make things worse. Yes, I am not
particularly thrilled about how the current Ottawa government is handling the
border issue, but right now, there already are people on both sides of the
debate – open/don’t open – to make the situation worse. Considering that Canada’s
current government is a Liberal/Conservative/NDP cooperative effort, this is
not making the situation any clearer or better, and if enough pressure applies,
then the entire government might either shut down completely or split into
several factions, (along party lines most likely but not exclusive), and then
Canada will stop being a normal country and start being something more along
the lines of Riordan’s Hyperborea, which is inhabited by copper-headed
basilisks, copper-beaked griffins, and an occasional Lestrygonian, of all
creatures.
…No, it won’t be that bad, but the truth is that the current
government doesn’t really handle crises and critical decisions very well; if
forced to, it will open the U.S.-Canada border fully for real, but until then,
it will wig and wag like a crazy bat in the autumn using anything to delay this
event, period. Just look at how it had ‘copy and pasted’ the U.S. crisis on its’
own territory, the political geniuses! May it bite them all in the ass – but that
will not be anything good for the Canadian people
instead.
…Listen: the current Canadian government isn’t as bad as the
Donald’s American one, it isn’t as far from the people as its’ U.S. counterpart
is, but all the same? It is still a government, and it has flaws. Right now,
with COVID-19 in the full swing, it decided to use civil unrest to let people
release the steam, manifested by self-isolation – and then we will see what
happens. If this civil unrest also allows people to forget, however
temporarily, about their southern neighbor, whose actions lately made everyone
uneasy, and Canada – especially so, then that is an added bonus! Hooray! …Any
alternative is worse. Anything else?
…’Artemis Fowl’ the movie is coming out to Disney+ this
Friday, (i.e. June 12, 2020). Even from the trailers and the pre-release
summaries, it is evident that AF is going to be worse. Even from the trailers,
it is evident that the movie is going to have little in common with the actual
novel series, and that is just sad. I am
not the biggest fan of the AF franchise, but even I am less than impressed by
Disney’s and Disney+ take on it. It may not be the SW franchise, but given that
American people are still pissed-off and worse by quarantine and etc., and are
also starved for spectacle, (cough, George Floyd’s funeral, cough), if the AF
movie fails, it can be another SW-level disaster for team Disney…
Speaking of disasters, let us get back to real life. Part of
the reason as to why COVID-19 doesn’t seem to be dying, is because the world isn’t
cooperating with itself; USA might’ve peddled and pushed its’ ‘global village’
franchise to the rest of the world in the post-Cold War 1990s and early 2000s,
but as soon as the U.S. military had exhausted itself in Libya, (2011 onwards),
and the first real challenge, (say, Putin’s annex of Crimea in 2014 or so),
showed that U.S. may talk the talk, but can’t walk the walk, and that was
enough. The American Dream, and the American World, (Pax Americana), began to
crumble – and enter COVID-19, which showed that without America to push its’
(political in this case) goods around, everything is same old, everyone and
their country are for themselves, and so here we are, in the now, with COVID-19
still dominating everyone and everything. That is depressing as fuck. It is
also real life.
…Well, this is it for now, though. See you all soon instead!
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