Is it a common experience of the moment to feel like every layer to the onion skin of life is rotten?
Personal self - struggling with mood, energy, and health
Family and friends - struggling, whether in health, mental health or money
Work - drowning and imploding simultaneously , with everything and everyone there holding a turd while looking ahead to the next turd
Community - dysfunctional, divided, blame seeking rather than solution seeking
City - insolvent, infrastructure broken, thanks to past l "business-oriented" city counselors who somehow thought that attracting more business to the area would somehow stop the sewer, storm water drains and mains water pipes from expiring
Region - currently in a state of emergency thanks to the raging storm that has caused widespread flooding and landslides
Government - flailing, who somehow thought that gutting the public service and shooting down plans to coordinate water, storm water and sewage operations across the country (which are failing due to lack of local council funds (see above)) and cutting funds for natural disaster mitigation (see above) would get the country out of the post-civid doldrums. No, indeed, fuckers, it has made things worse! Natural disasters aka climate crisis events just keep coming more often. Also descended from the same government who back-burnered climate crisis action in favour of keeping the country "attractive to foreign business" (see above). Would also rather swallow their tongue than say a mean thing about the USA or Israel
The international community - we all know what a fucking dumpster fire that is now. Imagine if, after the first or second Gulf War, governments had nutted up and actually followed the wise advice to kick the oil habit. Evil cabals of ultra rich just barely clinging to indemnity from the law due to their owner ship of media and politicians and pushing the blame onto the displaced, the brown, the foreign, the female, the queer
The planet - is fucking done with us. We didn't listen and now our civilization's odds of survival are plunging. Well, when I say we, I mean the people that made it to power everywhere and over decades and iterations of governments, down-prioritised climate action as a nice-to-have. I listened. I know a lot of you listened. We were all Greta Thunberg scolding the A-holes that let us down everyday in order to get relelected and refunded by their billionaire sponsors. But here we are.
I've never been much of an optimist. Many people in my life have called me a pessimist. I've always thought I was more of a realist. And still the way things are going are matching my worst predictions. If they keep tracking this way...well, it was nice knowing you all. Hopefully I can finish NEL before skynet plunges humanity into digital darkness and begins hunting us with robots.
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