Outbursts

10 second tirades:

Why ethnically innovative and gender-neutral casting of period pieces and classics is controversial only to bigots:  History is bunk.  It happened wrong and we've got to fix it.  

Why we are doomed:  Because only money gets to talk and money is an idiot.

Those who have corporate structured jobs (which include government and healthcare and media and law firms in addition to corporations) lie to themselves about how their lives reflect the reality of America.  The word mainstream sounds like that’s where most of the stream is, but it’s just a name for the thin band of stream that we’re allowed to listen to and see on our tvs and whatnot which is by for and about the people in that stream.

Lately when I feel nostalgic for some era I am sometimes troubled by the question of whether that era was as golden as it was solely because it was stealing from this one?

Space used to be exciting but now that it's gone commercial it's just another disappointment.  Mars exploration is just another show.  I can barely participate in the excitement and elation about it.  It looks like groundbreaking for a mall, a mall that’s going to die anyway (thank goodness) so let’s cut out the middle man and kill it now.

I have nothing against the unborn.  As long as they stay that way.*

I don’t dislike Burt Lancaster movies per se.  I definitely hold 50s and 60s adult mainstream middle brow melodrama in much lower esteem than I used to as a naïve child in the 60s.  But that doesn't mean I won’t watch it.  It gives my eyeball rolling muscles a good workout.  The best part about it is I can play with my phone with much higher concentration and no guilt.  That’s a good thing in my view since I am extremely addicted to my phone. It’s just hard to convey how literally, seriously and non-ironically ok I am with that genre of movie for exactly this reason.

First Elon Musk completely takes away my freedom as a non-user to scroll Twitter without joining up.  Then he changes the name of the site to X.  X my ass, Elon Musk.

Given how top heavy the leadership of the neoliberal order is with old people who will not let go of power, with nothing else happening in the way of socialist revolution, how can it be wrong to root for attrition?

Corporate Democrats are weak tea oomphless nothings who make sure they never lose financially or careerwise, but when it comes to politics never win.  Whenever they do manage to win, in spite of their belief that it’s only because they succeeded at pretending to be cool and correct Republicans, it escapes their notice that it’s really only because they lucked into being not Republicans for the 5 minutes that people who actually vote thought it mattered somehow that Republicans were not good. 

When it comes to money and getting theirs, liberal neoliberals (third way dems; elder hippie boomers and anyone of any age who emulates them) will drop their protest signs and solidarity in a minute. When it comes to sympathy and solidarity with the financially unfortunate, it’s no longer "kumbayah" and "we shall overcome", but rather "sucks to be you."  

If there is to be any hope for the planet and its inhabitants we need to cooperate now on a solution but we hate each other too much for that to ever happen.  What's more, some people are very pleased at how much hate there is preventing the implementation of effective solutions  (because this means their heads can remain attached to their necks.)  

Or am I just being a grumpy ol’ silly billy?

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* It's a joke.