Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. ‘Barkskins’ have
finished their run for now, and few people have acknowledged them – it’s a
pity, because they were a very good novel adaptation/historical drama TV
series. However, they were not very popular, or rather – this genre is not very
popular right now, and so ‘Barkskins’ remain very much obscure for now. What
next?
Yesterday was the U.S.’ primaries’ voting, (we are talking
June 23, 2020 here), and I have to ask: how did the U.S.’ ‘civil unrest’, (let
us live the COVID-19 out of the equation for now) affect the voting? Seriously!
Especially since we are talking New York and all, where the unrest in question
was especially bad. The mass media is keeping mum on that now, just as it does
about Seattle, where there was some sort of a leftist commune there; an armed leftist commune, I should add.
But no – the mass media is keeping quiet about it; instead,
they’re talking about politics, about elections, about the Donald and his clan
beginning to fight his niece Mary for real, as she is releasing, or trying to
release, her own book about the Donald, the Trump family, and the presidency.
Fun! Or not, since this is the clan that the U.S. has to live with, and the
rest of the world has to live with the U.S.
…Or not, since people are still trying to find alternatives
to the U.S.’ global hegemony; China, the RF, and the EU are all ‘viable’
alternatives. Idiots! History has its’ own cycles, and it states that after
every peak – a semi-global empire – comes a fall, which results in a multitude
of small states, (or city-states, whatever), during which the planet
recuperates, (however partially), from the whatever damage the human
civilization was able to inflict upon it, and everything starts anew. Right
now, we are living it, as the COVID-19 and its’ side-effects/after effects
demonstrate; already, some human projects are being put on hold… pause.
Yes, by now the global human society is beginning to emerge
from the initial global lockdown, initiated in the first half of 2020. But
already there’s the beginning of a talk about the second wave of COVID-19, which means things are going to snap back
into a lockdown position… or not, and I honestly don’t know which is worse –
the devil that we know, (namely the lockdown with all of its flaws), or the one
we don’t, (aka if we don’t go back into the lockdown and the second wave of
COVID-19 hits for real). What is left?
…Yes, by now, humans are pissed about the lockdown, and a
part of the entire civil unrest, (primarily in the U.S. – in Canada it was
somewhat different), was because of it – people want it to end, they want out! …Ok,
now they are out, and what next? If all of those conspiracy theories are false,
then COVID-19 is not going away anywhere, and people will continue to die –
maybe at a more intense rate, maybe not, but regardless, they will continue to
die. And if COVID-19 does go away, then all of those conspiracy theories are
true, however partially, and things for humans will get even worse. Anything
else?
Well, actually, today I wanted to revisit out friends the
turtles today, just because, but then I came across a news article on ‘The
Atlantic’ about how the MLP: FIM fandom has acquired Nazi elements and doesn’t
know what to do with them, and how it equates with NASCAR having a lot of
racist elements in it still, and I got to admit that any world that has a
fandom of small, talking, colorful ponies/horses acquire outright Nazi elements
in it, (the MLP-fandom doesn’t really deny it), is a weird one to live in, and
while it might suck, I still won’t switch it for any fictional one.
…Well, this is it for now – see you all soon!
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