It’s sad to lament the great promise the Internet once held for bringing people together to compare notes on the myriad ways that the powers that be keep us sick, fighting with each other, broke and impotent. Instead it has been used to steer us all into these little echo chambers of division.
I’ve been sensing the online media blitz for the past week or so. It feels like a rehashed production script yet I am saddened to see people falling for it. Benjamin Netanyahu rehashed the old storylines to something like 83 standing ovations from Congress. The bombings will continue until every last child is eradicated.
Of course people are legitimately upset about this overtly genocidal campaign. So they rolled out the playbook they’ve been using at least since Occupy Wall Street of seeding the protests with violent flag burners. The media eats up these images, stoking unrest among the MAGA crowd. They cling to the belief that Trump will end the wars and really get to the bottom of the vaccine genocide. Yeah sure he will. Both sides are funded by the same corporations.
Images have been circulating of Trump’s ear which seems to indicate that it has healed perfectly. That strikes me as a little strange on cartiledge. Many decades ago my husband pierced one of his earlobes. It long ago healed but the indent is still visible from where it was done. I have no tattoos and no piercings which in retrospect, considering my age and where I was from, is probably remarkable in itself. Everybody I went to school with that I know of has both tattoos and piercings, regardless of their gender. Some people are questioning if the famous mid air bullet shot is a fake and both sides are united around the idea that everyone in government lies and that Crooks is a patsy. I suppose some of us just want something higher to believe in.
The opening ceremony of the Olympic games in Paris was as fake and gay as expected. They decided to do a recreation of the Last Supper with a bunch of trannies, with a very fat woman (???) as the Messiah.
I’m not sure what the naked blue person is supposed to represent. They’re claiming some sort of disruption closed down the mass transport system ahead of the Olympics. They haven’t pinpointed the boogieman yet but it looks like Netanyahu is angling for the US to go fight Iran. Perhaps it will be pinned on Russia. It won’t be blamed on migrants even though the USA forever wars contributed to the mass displacement that Europe has born the brunt of.
Joe Biden was ushered off stage left under mysterious circumstances and suddenly all of the money seems to be flowing to Kamala Harris. People who were Riding with Biden no matter what have turned on a dime to supporting the VP. She checks all of the boxes and is not Trump. I expect a vigorous debate in the accepted very narrow range of discourse allowed. Nothing will affect corporate interests whatsoever. That theater has not been mentioned on my earnings calls, which is par for the course.
Getting away from the psychological torture that is all things political and beyond our control is the best way to maintain sanity. Today I am not an optimist or a pessimist. Instead I’m trying to do shadow work.
My artwork is a painting I’ve been working on of Nai Yang beach. I want to work on the waves a bit more and I also want to put an airplane in the image, as this area is best known for the images of planes. Phuket International Airport is 400 meters or so from us with a strip of sand and water below it separating Nai Yang and Maikhao beach to the north.
A policeman at the local station saw my art and wants me to do a small painting for him. That made me smile at least.
Is it time to turn off the screens? What do you think?
I know that I'm a weirdo Amy, but I actually do love you. You're a seriously amazing human. God bless you.
Yes, Kill Your TV……this was an old bumper sticker from the 90’s …..unplugging from the constant onslaught of propaganda is one of the best things we can do for our sanity. In my opinion the other best thing is to make art, I love your little painting 🥰.