Booting the Soft Reboot
Life feels like a clip show. Tired scenes are unnervingly familiar. An election about not learning is perfect for a world where everyone forgot what was for breakfast. Modern humans use the ability to access all information ever with a few thumb strokes to know none of it. Why use up brain storage when the tablet can serve as your memory?
Take the final presidential options, which feature one person who already tried this and another who’s basically doing so right now. The last commander-in-chief competes with the de facto incumbent for votes from an electorate that’s decided to pretend neither has previously been near power.
The only thing worse than attempting all these atrocious ideas is not recalling said atrociousness. Both sides are neglecting to accept that they’ve already gotten their miserable ways. It wasn’t too long ago, either. In fact, one of them is having a special day right now where she gets every policy she wants. It’s understandable to not want to run on established records when you’re either of the two particular entities in question.
Parties that see each other as the bad side in World War II share a bipartisan dedication to forgetting what’s happening this moment. If you’re going to spend funds you don’t have, you may as well forget you went shopping. Like coming together to squander more pilfered funds, some agreement should not spur sunny feelings about the possibility of cooperation.
Remembering what happened serves as a reminder that right now isn’t the only moment that’s ever existed. Thinking there’s nothing else explains the present political attitude toward spending. Debt junkie John Maynard Keynes noted that in the long run we’re all dead, and there’s no better summary of his wretchedly myopic thievery than not giving a rat’s rump about the price paid tomorrow.
I know it was half an hour ago, but let’s all try to focus on experiences we may want to retry or avoid. There’s good news if you want to do something worthwhile again and helpful if you’re trying to avoid repeating something regrettable. By contrast, the quite fresh perspective is not super at all if we’re attempting to recreate the dumb thing we tried five minutes ago. Steering into a river after driving into a creek demonstrates a willingness to not be defined by what’s already occurred.
Whoever’s manning the executive branch right now should feel ashamed. We’re giving Kamala’s notions a chance right now, and nothing upsets her more than noticing. Harris is running to fix everything that whoever’s president busted.
Democratic reflexes to claim everything needs to be changed and will be wonderful is particularly dubious considering the little matter of them presently running anything. The person running things says things are being run terribly.
Thinking life is awful under this particular administration is the only thing the president’s top underling believes. No journalist has gotten Harris to admit anything she believes; why would getting her to concede she’s presently vice president be any different?
Seeing just how miserable joy can be is a seeming impossibility on par with making money worthless. Democrats create miracles in their way. Trying to remove fear and doubt from the world via fiat only creates more woe. But let’s skip paying bills once more to see if it makes us wealthy.
This would be an excellent time to recall what was tried the term before. It may shock you to learn Donald Trump was already president. The term was surreal enough that it seemed like a dream. But like drunk Andy calling Angela from Winnipeg, that really happened. You walk around all day thinking your mind imagined something you actually endured.
Cults are all about claims. It’s too bad fact-checkers have been discredited as partisans who use the imprimatur of a self-appointed job title to pretend their bias constitutes reality, as workers could make an easy living doing the actual task. It’d be easy work to check claims of announcing just when the world will end, which both sides are coincidentally claiming would happen around their respective potential losses. Doom approaches either way.
We already know what works even if we’re not trying it right now. Government sucks at spending wisely just like it does running anything. I realize everyone forgot what short-term memory is, but even today’s screen brains should be able to retain how costly free stuff is.
I don’t judge how anyone worships unless they pray in a polling place. Politicians can’t keep you from worshiping who you’d like, including politicians. But, as with free speech, others are free to mock puzzling choices. Those who make awful choices loathe self-regulation.
Faith based on who seduces you into handing over your vote may not lead to salvation. We know with certainty which quasi-deities are certain to not deliver on promises. They will impose suffering if devotees think withstanding hardship enables salvation. Speaking of candidates as saviors could only be sadder if it were already tried. I just looked up a list of recent presidents and have unfortunate news.
