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This IS, the end of the world. And?

18/04/202018/04/2020 — Health & Fitness, Literature, Personal, Sidewalk philosophy, Uncategorized — 5 min read

By now, I think everybody is getting cabin fever, and even the Dalai Lama is starting to consider playing golf with someone’s head.

There’s no denying that the latest bio-weapon trial, I mean: the completely unforeseen and natural outbreak – that the US Navy knew about since 2017, link at the bottom – , has had an impact and life as we all knew it ended.

Honestly, it’s taking way to long to get to that Mad Max setting where I’d be lunch for the first roving band of girl scouts.

But maybe people will figure out that a money based economy is anachronistic and it was causing a social rift between people and a cultural stagnation– there we go with them big boi words again – and move towards a resource based economy.

We could be living here, but you’re still clinging to capitalism :^)
Image from: thevenusproject.com

Could happen.

Events, got cancelled, girls night out got canceled, boys night out trying to get in the girls night out…got canceled. And you have your local authorithy figures, begging, pleading, threatening them with flame throwers – Italy actually did this – and screaming at people to follow some strict, but fairly simple rules so that the majority of the population can survive.

So I found myself asking a very simple question: why?

I mean, everybody is facing the same situation, and while yes, not everybody has the same living standard – that’s an issues to go out for in the streets and riot because, WTF?!some asshole is on a private island and most people can’t afford food to just stay indoors?! – the answer is universal. Don’t. Fucking. Go. Outside. If you don’t have a really good reason!

That’s why, when I do hear some news of people rioting because they want to go shopping, or clubbing or my favorite: religious gatherings; I say: let them do it.

Sure, I’d install an ID scanner at the entrance with some armed guards and get that database compiled and sent to hospitals, and everybody who attended and gets sick does NOT get to go to the hospital, but hey, fair is fair. And we all need to accept that there are consequences to our actions.

At one point we do need to look a the natural selection angle too. Personally I think that Darwinism is a used most of the time as a convenient rationalization of doing some abusive shit to other people, but in this case it may work.

This corona doom could be just the thing we need to thin the heard a bit, and step back from that Idiocracy nightmare we were living in.

If people want to kill themselves via COVID-19, I say let them!

Give them a special card or something that they sign and agree to renounce any medical treatment they might and most likely need in case of a corona infection, and let them run wild.

Sure, they wouldn’t be allowed back in their homes, and they’d have to stay at a select location with all the other “free spirits” but that’s the price of freedom and we all know, freedom isn’t free.

Or rather, the price of misunderstanding liberty, for the right to: freely do whatever the fuck you want, while ignoring other’s people right to not get infected with a deadly virus, just because you’re an egocentric narcissist and don’t care about the people around you.

But Pickle, you lovely, yet tyrannical veggie, you. Doesn’t that sound a bit militant and judgemental? You sound like you want to treat the less enlightened in our society as second class citizens.

Of course I’m not, they are doing that themselves. I’m merely pointing out that two groups of people have emerged in the face of the current crisis.

There are the people who listen to the medical experts and make sacrifices to not expose themselves and others to a very deadly virus, and then there are those who do anything and everything to go outside and mingle because now that it’s not allowed, their inner James Dean took over and started acting out.

That being said, there is of course, that tiny-huge, immediate problem that some political leaders can’t seem to get right. Ahem: GIVE PEOPLE A UBI=universal basic income, SO THEY DON”T HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE… YOU STUPID FUCKS!

This is a reason, to protest and and riot.

Suspend bill, and rent payments for people.

Another reason to get worked up and all 70’s Travolta.

Basically just do what Denmark did. Just copy paste their moves, nobody will mind.

To European? Fine, do what Canada did, still better than what is currently happening here.

Do this and people might just stay home. And if they don’t, well, at least you now have a good reason to tell them to chew on a couple of bullets and call their mortician in the morning.

The world IS ending, and it’s in the same spirit when it wasn’t getting a 360 fuck nuke: needlessly stupid, or stupidly needless…just like this rant 😉

Za Links

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/covid-military-shortage-pandemic/

Vilify salvation, because COVID-19 told me to

02/04/202002/04/2020 — Health & Fitness, Personal, Productivity, Uncategorized — 4 min read

Long time no care, my nonexistent audience, as everyone else, I plan to milk this whole corona situation and get my demented excrement trending, because that’s how it’s done!

As it’s typical with any crisis, it tends to put pressure on people, thus, revealing some more base and “uncharacteristic” behavior in us all – yeah, we use big words up in this itch – .

That’s usually not a problem, we all love some caveman vibes in certain aspects of our lives – the bedroom, at work, … waiting in line behind the undecided family of 12 –, but when it comes to our leaders, I don’t know, I feel like they should have a better or as they would put it, a more “superior” perspective on the situation. I mean all that pedigree and private education must be good for something right? It can’t all be just overpriced dinner parties, special access and connections. Right?

Man throwing US dollars towards camera, black background
Istock doesn’t know I stole this, so shh while I give them credit and hope they won’t…COPYRIGHT STRIKE ME!

So imagine my surprise when I started witnessing a very subtle, but very aggravating narrative from our officials.

When medical resources got exhausted, in a blink of an eye I might add, some nurses and some doctors decided to quit their jobs.

Now, the official response has been polite, but laced with insinuation.

“We need you now more than ever! You are our front line in this desperate battle! Please don’t leave, don’t let the bad virus win!”

Some really good platitudes, but they also painted a nice picture of the medical staff, running like cowards, or turning a deaf ear to the suffering of the people.

And that, put a bee in my goth bonnet!

Here’s the actual situation from my basic human view that tends to look up some information before polluting the airwaves with my spam.

When the people who decided to help other people for a living can’t do their job, because nobody gave a target bag full of shit about them when it came to allocating funds and budget time, don’t come finger wagging at them to suck it up and do their job.

They want to, that’s why the went to medical and nurse school while you went to Lobby R’US.

But you see, a funny thing happens when you don’t have the proper equipment, THEY CAN’T DO PISS ON TOAST for their patients because if they get near them, they might as well join them on the bed next to them as a patient!

I would ask only one thing, nay, I demand this of you, I impose it and might even look you up and shove it up bellybutton – innie or outie nobody is safe –: people who made the decision to help others for a living, don’t up and bitch out because it’s to much. To much it’s the default here.

They only step back when they can’t do anything to help without doing damage to other people. And here’s the thing that we all forget, they are human too, they have friends and familly, and they might want to keep them safe and alive through this.

So if you want them to do their jobs, like they want to do their jobs, make sure they have the tools they need to do it.

Because if we don’t take care of our caregivers there will be no one left to take care for the rest of us.

There’s nothing left to love

02/02/2020 — Personal, Sidewalk philosophy — 4 min read

I can’t find it anymore. I can’t remember anything or anyone that made me think, even to myself, that I love it, of him or her.

You may be thinking that, I’m jaded or a cynic, but I present the question to you: When was the last time you loved?

What does it fee like? Did you follow the dictionary definition?

Or perhaps you got aroused by someone and mistook that for love?

I guess what I want to figure out in this post, is where are the things and people that I should love?

Are they in an app? Blog, podcast, stream? A support group?

Are they even alive?

Did the definition change to much, or have these really important things, gone missing and what can I…we…I can do, to get them back.

There is no more us in this world. This planet is populate by I’s and I’s alone.

And to be fair how else could it be? Mainstream-anything, has been turned into a pair of sharp scissors ready to cut out anybody who isn’t like everybody else.

Tribalism has pervaded every aspect of our lives, from what you think to the phone you use.

The only thing that still forces us to talk to each other is enforced politeness and interest.

If tomorrow everyone were to become self sufficient and nobody would need anybody to survive, you’d most likely see a 90% decrease in your circle of friends. And you know it’s true.

So, what is love? Is it like, Liking+?

I don’t know anymore, I think I used to once, but it’s been so long since I had a sample that now, it can be any positive sensation and experience.

Eating sugar? Feels nice, love it. Using one another to reach our goals, clearly love!

And the ultimate current incarnation: compromise!

They compromised so they clearly love each other. The final nail in the coffin.

Who/what is worthy of love? Drugs? Celebrities? Pets? Everything intangible that holds only one promise: I can’t return what you give.

The only thing I’ll most likely hear back as a response are going to be baseless platitudes like: family and friends are the standard of love, like any obligatory thing is worth anything.

To be able to love something you must have a connection with it, and understand it to a very high degree, even while they change. Even as you change.

Connection only comes with time. Who has time?

Aren’t you busy? Isn’t your project due? Aren’t you tired and feel like you really should do something for yourself to justify all the self abuse you subjected yourself to?

Yeah, you do, it’s only fair and normal. Everyone else is doing it!

Love today is just finding a place where like minded people can commiserate.

Find your commiserating partner today! And never feel lonely again, because proximity to another biological creature is what it means to be close to another person, right?

In this world, in this time, there’s nothing left to love.

And it sux! And I miss it! And I want it back!

I wish one wold find it, I don’t even want to be the one that finds it, but I think I’d be ok with someone actually finding the ability to love, and something that can be loved, or someone.

That would be my wish. That would be my every wish, any time, on every wishing occasion! Every falling star, every birthday – the few I have left –.

Fiction is a honest state :)

28/01/2020 — Health & Fitness, Literature, Personal, Sidewalk philosophy — 3 min read

Do you like pickles?

The question has nothing to do with this post, hell, not even with the nature of this blog, but original ice breakers are dwindling in a world of 8 billion and growing, so gimme a break!

Now that that’s out of the way, I guess you should get some idea about what this blog -really self-indulgent on my part to call it that tbh- is all about.

I have no idea!

Nothing? Anything, everything? It doesn’t matter at this point, and I doubt it will change by the time I will end.

The one thing I can tell you about this, is that it’s going to be fiction/fantasy, cut from reality, so you know it will be honest.

Reality has this unwanted effect–at least I think it’s unwanted– where you have to make concessions and compromises in order for something to be seen as real AKA: serious.

In the real world, people are almost never honest because they know that current society see’s individuality as a deviation and it punishes it.

Sure, it’s done by proxy, with varying levels of tribalism, peer pressure and social isolation, but it’s all done to stem out whatever other idea you may have when it comes to the already established, normal.

Gods, I hate that word. The abnormal things we did and still do in the name of normality…

Personally, I always thought that we, as a species, lose quite a lot when it comes to life and living, as long as we accept only one sense of real, the sanctioned collective consensus!

I think I read once, that reality is the result of all the individual realities coming together.

If only that were true!

Can you imagine how many dragons – yes…I did that – unicorns and ghosts of donuts past, would be in the world if that were true?!

Dragon pic stolen from Unsplash from this guy @zanilic

Shit, I wish that were true every single time I wake up!

As for what I’ll write here, I’ll write about life stuff, death stuff, events I deem worthy of interest, late movie reviews because I don’t go to cinemas, anime, cartoons and series monologues and any other misc. and etc. I can inflict upon an online community!

It will be prone to overthinking and contradictions so most likely non-PC.

But honesty is messy, no make up here.

Now for the standard obligatory deep quote to give you guys the impression I’m actually an intellectual:

“Stand firm for what you believe in, until and unless logic and experience proves you wrong. Remember, when the emperor looks naked, the emperor *is* naked. The truth and a lie are not sort of the same thing. And there is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can’t be improved with pizza. Thank you.”
Daria, Daria- Is it college yet?