3.11.23 - This Madness of Living
Boys at the Lagan
Lagan burst its banks
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When we get ourselves into a state, there is literally, no stopping us.
There is the Sam Bankman Fried trial which concluded with the jury finding him - unanimously finding him - guilty on all 7 counts. They were fraud, conspiracy to fraud and money laundering. this man-child, or really what is he? - highly educated, you could not be more educated than he, came from this enormously elite and privileged background - both parents professors in Standford. Had this crazy upbringing - you can imagine the humble bragging and the hot housing and the grooming for life as one of the walking through the raindrops denizens - and in this huge fuck you to everyone, he decided to defraud and embezzle in a crypto day Ponzi scheme over £35 billion of customers money. It took the jury no time at all. Following this trail you wondered what kind of moral compass this person grew up with. Worse still his parents were "effective altruists". They said that to do good you had to make lots of money so you could give it away. It turns out that well, what they really meant was it should be given away to them. The trail is over, the verdict is in, and the jury has found him guilty. It's Game Over for this man. He is facing potentially over 100 years in jail.
Then there is the madness of the cost of living crisis. People are now in so much difficulty that - and I mean ordinary people, not the fucking billionaires and their hangers on - that nothing, or not a lot can be done for them really... I don't know how people with families to feed are doing it. I am now relatively comfortable and will do alright. It is not a huge thing for me - no mortgage, low everything else - electricity, food - the only thing I have is the car and that costs me about £900 a year in repairs and insurance. And of course £80 a month in diesel. It is not much at all. Life is so simple it is ridiculous. And I have some fat stored away. But for those pple really going through it - and worst still is the discrepancy of the filthy rich and the people who live in penury. It makes me sick the superrich. How do they justify that existence? Once again, I have to say I am SO GLAD that this mess has nothing to do with me.
Then there is gigantic suppurating festering wound in Palestine. The Israelis are probably the best example of where everything did go wrong. We have a dispossessed peoples having just elbowed their way onto land with the help of the assholes of colonialism, and within the span of two generations, have gone from victims to aggressors. It started the minute they set foot in there and they have just been doing it ever since. And people who have not followed this actually are now just astonished at how brutal they are. Those who have followed it felt their herts sink out of us on Oct 7 because we knew what awaited he Gazans. How is this going to end? The Muslim leaders make warlike cries but nothing will probably come of it. They will be bought off and when people are bored and tired and move on to the next thing...
The war between Ukraine and Russia looks like it is about to fizzle out. Russia has managed to hold the land they have captured and Ukraine, having been thrown under the bus by the most stupid people on the planet - the Americans and Boris Johnson - are now discovering the pup they signed up for.
The ongoing environmental catastrophe continues. I have always said climate change is a red herring, yes it is taking place, but not it cannot be solved without sorting out the poverty problem and there cannot be climate change winners and losers.
I do think though now that the people in charge, as exemplified by Sam Bankman-Froed and his awful parents really do think that they own the world and can do whatever they want with it. The Snowpiercer model of life is where we are at now. The very poor, sick, infirm, dispossessed are no longer equal citizens. They are treated like crap and should they die then so much the better, they do not drain our resources. More for us. These people not only do not want to share, they just want to keep accumulating to fill their truly miserable and empty lives forever.
I sadly have been able to catch a glimpse into the lives of the filthy rich through these FB posts which somehow find their way to me and the excess of food on them, the self congratulatory slaps on backs, their stupid conferences which they somehow really think still mean something... sitting about talking shite. Who needs more solutions? We all know what the solutions are... I have said innumerable numbers of time, we do not need more data, we don't need more strategies... we know EXACTLY what needs to be done. The talking now is just a massive distraction. If it were up to me there would be no more aid - aid has not helped any of these countries. They need to keep their resources and the only help they need, if they even need it is to organise themselves. I would start small, on a village scale and then when the villages are solid, to grow it to a town scale. Top down certainly doesn't work.
I do what I believe needs to be done....
Anymore than that - I am not doing the government's fucking job for them. They can do it themselves. I pay my taxes and look after my own. I do not need the affirmation of strangers to feel good about myself.
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