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Varada Sethu joining series as Doctor’s latest companion, marking first time Tardis team is wholly people of colour
“Woke just means inclusive, progressive and that you care about people. And, as far as I know, the core of Doctor Who is kindness, love and doing the right thing.”
It's nice to just hear someone say it as it is, completely unfiltered.
I didn't know Cardiff had its own "London" thing going on with property. Someone put the link up of the house that was featured in the season finale of Doctor Who and it's a property in Penarth, which is a satellite town of Cardiff (one that I imagine was its own place in history, but has been swallowed up since). This particular four bedroom detached house is on the market for £1.3 million. It's not a mansion or anything, just a four bed home. Crazy price.
Not to sound arrogant, but in a broad and zoomed out way, I feel like I completely understand how the world has ended up in this situation. Neoliberalism is a huge factor. As is latter-day-batshit-hyper-capitalism, which sees competition as mantra for living, transplanting it from the corporate world and into our personal lives. This in itself drives a growing self-centred isolationism - an increasing me versus you mentality. Then chuck the internet into the mix, and the increase in internet literacy via the introduction of smartphone, where everyone consumes everything, including the stuff that's not intended for them which then fuels them vs us culture wars, which then leads to the belittling and scapegoating of all those perceived to be the number one cause of all of the above, and you're basically there.
It's not just capitalism as a standard, but latter-day hyper batshit insane capitalism. I could perhaps tolerate pre-21st century capitalism to a degree. It wasn't perfect by any means, but now? It's like defining every single aspect of our lives. There is no off time. Every single thing is framed through the market. Instagram is full of walking, talking human branding. Not just for the fun of it, but for the blood-sport-like kill of leaving the competition in the dust. The them versus us mentality is thriving tenfold, and all aspects of life that aren't the great and holy competition seem to be relegated to second league extras. Art for art's sake, love, emotions, feeling things, experiencing nature, just being and enjoying this seemingly rare existence in the cosmos, rather than just plundering and pillaging everything.
It might sound cliché when I rant on about capitalism this, and capitalism that, but it's far beyond the somewhat passive, essentialist aspects of that system. It's not a system we use solely when working any more, but an ideology that has come to define us almost entirely.
This blog getting a lot of usage currently. I'm just overwhelmed with the amount of things I'm reading. Literally there are huge problems on every front. And no one is really wanting to fix it, but rather just maintain the illusion that it's all no big deal.
I keep thinking about how much has changed since around 2022 onwards and the sheer speed of that change.
It just feels like everything is collapsing on all fronts. It also makes me think it's all being given a free pass, by so many, due to the collective mental trauma the world suffered as a result of the pandemic years. If mankind was a person, they'd probably be told that they haven't fully dealt with the trauma picked up during those years and it's having a very real, negative effect on their everyday life.
Maybe it seems like I'm being a bit over the top. But when something is so overly omnipresent, it kind of makes the world feel tiny.
I guess you could liken it to a commercial break (something I always used to mute on traditional TV), but rather than it being - I don't know - 10 very different products in a row. The advert reel, instead, is only selling AI to you, but from 20 different companies, one after another. And that just gives me this sense of the walls closing in and freedoms being taken away at an extreme level.
Also, that there's a sort of mad dash for every single company to implement the tech to remain competitive, even though it's largely useless. It just feels frantic and pointless at the same time.
It makes me miss the NFT boom, as it felt far shorter in retrospective.
I'm just so sick of those two letters. My goodness. I can't even frigging right click even, without it appearing now. I already have one billion add-ons, many of which are hiding and disabling AI from my day to day life.
