sept 11 in idea barrages

Seeing Adam Sandler’s career devolve into terrible direct-to-video releases to give his old buddies jobs, maybe the Emperor should’a told him how his faith in his friends was his weakness not, y’know, Luke Skywalker.

No one wins in an apocalypse, everyone just dies. No zombies to shoot, no shining city on a hill, no agrarian daydream, just death. Normalize the idea of not living in some fictitious end-times and suddenly people will have to work together again.

I wonder if they’d try to enforce the old copyright if you tried to name your sub shop “Hoagies Heroes”.

It turned out some poor overworked underpaid soul at the Shake Shack cleaned the milkshake machine with a little too much bleach and the NYPD are so insanely paranoid that they thought it was an assassination attempt and had to trumpet that for public relations. America.

Our futures have always been uncertain. All plans are put to rubbish when making contact with reality. The pandemic did not change the nature of being a human in a society, it just ripped away the confected illusion of predictability. It’s all up in the air, it always has been.

Crisis has a way of making the world an even playing field for the anxious. Hell, I’m almost afraid of what it’ll be like whenever the new stability comes (not “normal”, normal is such a loaded word) because the expectation of pretending to have a plan will return with it.

We allow police to live outside the communities they patrol, allow them to be armed as a military, allow them to be trained with a fantasy of themselves as the threatened as opposed to the threat then wonder why they operate as an occupying force. All these things need to change.

People haggling over someone saying whether American “invented” slavery or not, totally missing the point. Slavery invented America. Built huge chunks of it. Until we have our reckoning on that, really come to terms with that and its fallout, nothing will change concretely.