In conscience
I cannot
Send this
To anyone.
Sat 6 Ape 2524
Greedings,
It’s muggy, still, and in the 70’s. Windows being open helps little; it’s 19:32 and not yet cooling. In the coming week, snow is forecast. More rain, sleet, and flooding, no doubt, will continue afflicting us. Between the San Joachim Valley and the Midwest, forget food. Closed border only worsens the destruction of farming. We look back on the 1950s, when being white, middle class, and male was King, with a tint of nostalgia, as if those were the best of times, but they were the worst for anyone not a middle class white male. We’ll look back on pre-Putin days and wonder how we let it all go down the ashen tubes of nuclear extinction, as we huddle in our caves of rubble, knowing there is no clean air or water, and no more food.
This is how much of mankind has existed through history. Crouched amidst debris and trash, subsisting on rats and garbage, drinking run-off, and bathing in acid rain or oily puddles. It’s how the majority of us paid for the high, clean, healthy lifestyles of the rich few. We continue this self-negating cycle. It’s ridiculous proof we deserve it.
Nor is it new to have a good place go bad. In the 1930s in Detroit a gang arose called the Black Legion. Racist haters using terrorism in a spate of violence that reeled cops back on their heels. It all centered on a half-wit malignant narcissist who twisted the lowest idiots of society to give him power. Remind you of anything?
We also had Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito and Tito and others arise in the 1930s. Dictators, despots, and vicious half-wits with a dark charisma and gift of lying, of bullying. These things arose to tear the world apart, and the same types are doing it again.
Human motives don’t change and exploiting idiots remains easy, if one is a psychopath who cares only about self-aggrandizement. We see trunt as just the latest anal cyst to emerge with hemorrhoidal inevitability from the depths of shit called right wing or conservative politics. Haters, racists, misogynists, rapists, murderers, grifters, con men, thieves, and all the rest of humanity’s worst comprise this nadir of society. Always there, but seen only in diarrhetic cycles of blown-out fecal madness. It is as if global society cannot stop being smeared by shit every 75 years or so.
Putin’s coup, his Brexit con job, and the many sabotages and subterfuges he’s poised on various nations in Europe reinforce the plain fact that cancer must be stopped, it will not stop itself until the host is dead.
Has a single adult stepped forward to stop Nixon, (yes), or Reagan, (no), or Daddy Bush, (no), or the Cheney Junta with W as a figurehead, (no), or now trunt, (no). Have the Dems capitulated? Do they grovel now as surrendered POWs? Is their so-called opposition a Punch & Judy theater of endless brutality? Is their existence a propaganda sham?
So far, seems so.
Remember the suspense and dread we human beings felt as we waiting to know if the system would allow Barack Obama to be Murka’s last President? It surprised us nearly to shock that he was allowed to win. It elevated us that he was every bit the human being we’d hoped, albeit with regrettable Centrist-to-Right views on many things. At least he was intelligent, rational, and reasonable. At least he was a human being, which one cannot say about any republicant since Ike.
Eight years of at least being normal, if not particularly excellent, gave way to a vicious racist backlash from the mad dog GOP. The Gang Of Psychopaths sold out to Russia for rubles and puppet strings. America fell to a coup and a vile pesh, (people shape), was installed as an agent of Putin’s chaos. America was then torn to shreds, all without a President, without even a president*.
Now in free fall, with pollution killing millions, with infrastructure collapsing, and with military wasted on many imaginary fronts, including the Mexican border, Murka is twitching in its death throes.
So is the world. Runaway greenhouse effect heats up climate, destabilizes weather, and worsens any chaos, making planned agriculture impossible. Fukushima joins a list of hundreds of nuclear power plants, built to breed uranium-235 and plutonium for nuclear bombs, sold as clean electrical power, now leaking radioactivity into sea and sky, ensuring extinction will come soon regardless of Earth’s race to join Venus in the Overheated, Uninhabitable Club.
Huge islands of garbage twice the area of Texas bleed molecular plastics into the water cycle. Such murderous petroleum by-product is found now at the bottom of the Marianas Trench and atop Mt. Everest and K-2. It permeates all life forms.
Cubic miles in the thousands of ocean water has no oxygen any longer. Life can’t exist where once life thrived. We are in the Sixth Die-Off and we caused it.
Fracking poisons aquifers and water tables even as glaciers evaporate, leaving us with no more clean water. We cannot desalinate seawater efficiently enough to make a difference. Cities are being abandoned due to such changes, and the Water Wars are well underway.
Fracking also undermines faults and continental shelves, creating earthquakes, tsunamis, and releasing ignored amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas. They call it Natural Gas so no one will realize, and sell it at a premium, as if it’s valuable rather than suicidal.
We see what is happening and what’s coming. We see it clearly and do nothing. We don’t even discuss it much, certainly not intelligently. We refuse to be informed. As a species we are worse than proverbial lemmings in our eagerness to commit suicide by ignorance and apathy.
Escapism traps us.
So we leave no permanent mark of pride on Earth or the Cosmos. We were a blink of ugly awful horror in a far corner of the sub-reality we call our universe. No one took note or cared.
Not even us.
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