9.11.23 - Rather worryingly...

Usually my posts get around 5 or 6 views... over the last 3 days they have had about 60 views... where are these 60 views coming from... mostly Ireland apparently. I wonder who in Ireland is reading these posts? I kinda have to be careful. I don't want parents of the children I teach thinking i'm a nut case. I mean I am a nutcase in the way most people are nutcases, but really, whatever I write, I hope I am able to stand over it.

The difference has been, of course, the last 3 posts have been about the war in Gaza and the fire in the brain that has gripped Israel. Sometimes you read these stories in the Bible and they we are really no better than they were then. Jacob swindling Easau out of his birthright over a bowl of stew. Jealousy. Favouritism. Violence. How anyone can read the Bible and think it is a Holy Book, I don't know. It is like saying the Doomsday book should be worshiped or something.

The algorithms are now steering me away from the pro Palestine materials. Honestly how is anyone supposed to know about what is taking place in the real world now. From empty boycotted Starbucks to very odd videos of tornadoes in Israel to Israeli soldiers crying because they have been attacked by 'ghosts'... there is everything online. I do not watch the videos of Palestinians being slaughtered. I don't have to watch them. There is something ghoulish I think about seeing these. Just as I do not have to be in a war zone to know that war is heck, I don't have to watch images of children being blown to bits to understand that Israel's indiscriminate killing means that children, of which there are 50% in the population of Gaza are paying for the crime of being born there.

There is a kind of madness which has taken over.

Yesterday, an interview of Zelensky begging for money - even loaning money - was being widely shared. At first I thought, is it a deep fake, but apparently he went into near meltdown mode in an American TV interview. I have never seen the videos of him dancing and being a performer, but the man is clearly a narcissist. What exactly made him think he was leadership material? To be fair, it doesn't take much these days to think that way. Look at Biden and Johnson - or Sunak. Literally an unelected Prime Minister. What passes for democracy these days is not a lot of muster.

Meanwhile, in school, life goes on. Class 3 is learning Long Division and Money. We started with bartering, have moved onto using wooden beads for trading, and finally we will move onto money on Monday. It is quite amusing how we are able to convince people that things which we have assigned value do have value. Wooden beads, for instance. If we all agree that we are using wooden beads for money, then wooden beads becomes valuable. Just like decorated pieces of paper suddenly take on some kind of value. It's very strange. Of course now money isn't even physical anymore. It's now just numbers that appear on your screen. Any screen.

Well, I don't know who's all reading my past three blogs. I haven't said anything wildly different than if I went on my usual rants, and I stand by what I have said. Sure it's all over my FB page and in fact some of those posts and copied and pasted FROM my FB page, so it isn't a secret.

There is a quiet mental health crisis amongst children. People aren't really talking about it. It's hidden in plain sight, but those who work the front lines, they know. Today I got a tiny glimpse into the current situation. The phrase that occurred most frequently was, "After Covid..." I hope God does NOT forgive the assholes who came up with their stupid policies. Now people who are vaccinated a MORE LIKELY to get Covid and serious illnesses, including autoimmune illnesses. I was told by another friend recently that I had made the right decision to not get vaccinated. That they regretted getting it. Especially the boosters. Once again I explained that I just needed to wait to see what would happen in the future. There is no way a novel piece of technology would be safe. And I was right. Again.

What I was NOT right about Covid was that it was probably made in a lab. If I had thought that I may have been much more terrified. Which is to say, probably more cautious. As it was I never really understood why there was so much hoopla for a virus which they kept reassuring us was naturally occurring and had simply jumped the species barrier.

I guess I should plan tomorrow now... it will be a very busy day.