I feel as if all the point of progressivism has just served to use it as a target. Every place where there has been an attempt to move forward, it turns out that the forces of moving back are more motivated, more powerful, and they play dirty.
Apparently the Iranians managed to tag an F-35.
I know you’re as fascinated as I am – admit it. It’s like every horrible project we’ve all ever been involved with, rolled up in one, and with the entire budget of several countries at stake. [Read more…]
I have been watching, with some horror, the spiraling descent of facebook and instagram, etc. The whole situation reminds me of an historical event that bore some similarity.
I started this thought-stream in 2016. Since then, it’s interesting to watch how my interests have changed focus. I think my interests have changed in ways that reflect the changes in the internet, politics, and how society decides who and what is important, when.
I tried to do a posting the other night, and thought maybe I could keep myself from flailing around violently if I tranquilized myself with some of the traditional anti-anxiety drugs. By the time I was done writing – something – I was pretty much incoherent. It was also embarrassing because, as I was writing, I was imagining myself as being much wittier and more organized than I was.
It’s getting seriously hard to find the strength to talk about anything positive since January, and the genocide in Gaza and now Israel is testing Iran’s right to exist, and vice-versa. One bombed-out civilian neighborhood full of corpses and rescue workers looks pretty much the same. As Mark Twain once said, regarding religion, if you take two adherents of the religions of peace and lock them in a room together with knives, you’ll come back to find they have disassembled eachother and taken their case to a higher court.
I can get behind this:
This was taken right before the election:
This hasn’t gotten a lot of press because, frankly, it shouldn’t matter. But, every political issue – big or small – is contentious.