Relationship Police

I think one of the reasons for the libs’ interest in so stringently and rigidly policing other’s relationships is that they have experienced loss of power in almost every other realm that matters.

It’s a way to feel like they are achieving something, “saving” people, when in reality it’s not helpful and mostly harmful — and most harmful unfortunately to the very people they are “helping.”

Of course, some people just enjoy being busybodies and such, but that’s always true. The increase must be explained some other way.

Observe

Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays had such a charming, contemplative, melancholy voice. Every song she sang it was like she could see the beauty of the world but knew deep inside herself that she could never participate in it. She was like Morrissey if he were smarter and better and less of an utter prat. And she was like the one on the fated quest to save the kingdom who is so traumatized by what she’s seen and done and been forced to know that she can’t enjoy the peace she’s won.

And in the photo at the right, she has really tall hair.

Real Bailout

As a child of long-forgotten 80s BBSes, I concur. Can’t sell ads and control people who have multiple selves. We’ve sacrificed so much to prop up neoliberalism as it destroys the entire world.

Seeing What Will

Marshall McLuhan and Jean Baudrillard got more correct about what the shape of the modern world was and, more impressively, what it would become than any other two people who have ever lived.

Nostradamus was a pedestrian fraud; those two were the real oracles of the future and its meaning.