sept 17 in idea barrages

When young, all you want to do is see the world burn for all its cruelty. When old, you see how righteous rage like that is where all the cruelty comes from and want to save the good remaining from the fire you once wished for.

Death advances upon us now and all the worshippers of money do is herd us quicker to its slavering mouth.

I suppose that I would rather call it the Mandala Effect than the Mandela Effect as that’s what is is, memories connected in the sand of our heads then erased and erased again.

Teaching someone to work in a photography darkroom is all about negative reinforcement.

In my nightmare last night, a hive-mind of all-absorbing hate was subsuming whole multiverses, was eating the Marvel and DC timestreams. An amalgam of Superboy-Prime and X-Man “Nathani-El” and of Shazam and Frankin Richards “The Infinity Lantern” warring at the end of time under the gaze of a fusion of those universe’s two Gods “The Presence Above All”… where the God of each turned out to be not the writer of the comics but rather the reader. My nightmares are as epic and deconstructed as they are nerdy, I suppose.

Remember, Temperance was a coded war against Catholic and Eastern European immigrants (us “wrong kinds” of white people) the same as The War on Drugs is an assault on ethnic groups that Power stereotypes as drug using. It’s the same royal scam.

Ultimately, one of our problems is that while America is on average sightly left-of-centre, there are a LOT more extremists that are FAR more radicalized on the far-right than on the far-left. Our inability to reckon with that truth makes problems harder to fix.

A reboot of LIL ORPHAN ANNIE where her adoptive father made his money developing childrens’ video games and his name is Daddy Roblox.