5.2.25 - Planets align

I did not think I would end up talking so much about toilets, but here we have it.

Maybe there should be a keep our toilets clean campaign...

How can we do this?

I cannot believe that this is something which I am supposed to be doing this Singaporean thing here.

Maybe I should do the history of the flushing toilet. People take things for granted all the time, but flushing toilets has to be up there with everything else.

The thing about them is that, really, they are so bad for the environment. They are dreadful for water. Once the toilet is flushed, it goes away, everything goes away but it does not go away. It goes into a sewerage treatment works. There things are done to the water. Paper is separated, water is filtered and treated, waste is treated and taken elsewhere. Actually I have no idea where it is taken to here - and we just leave it. We fire and forget. An enormous amount of money goes into looking after our human waste.

We have privacy. I have been to toilets where there is no privacy. Where it is just a long line of latrines and people have to use it in front of each other. And they do everything there.

I have had to use toilets where people are having to dig holes in the ground. People can't use paper. There is no running water to wash hands. No soap. There are no cleaners. 

So we have to use the horrific toilet.

I don't know...

Anyway, it is not something I thought I would have to speak about.

But - planet align. I wish I knew what it meant by planets aligning.

I really should try and stop listening to American politics. The problem is that it is soooo tied up with other things as well. My only hope is that they end up just doing themselves out of a place in sane society. The award ceremonies are now just so over the top and out of sanity that I can no longer understand what is taking place anymore.

Everything has broken down. All narratives have now gone to shit and thank god, at the very least I have this story which I can now tell myself.

I am so tired, so bored, so annoyed that nothing can be done. That everyone is flapping about rearranging the deck chairs because their genuinely have no idea what to do, but also because they refuse to do what must be done. I think that do the right thing was surpassed by the Gazan destruction, but the rot has been steady and the decline clear for all to see. I think that nearly 30 years ago it would have been possible. Twenty years ago it was critical. Ten years ago, it was immediate. Now - now it is just a hot mess and we are in a state of total chaos. 

I don't know if I prefer Trump's incoherence because it exposes the idiocy of people, but I kinda do. His lack of the ability to kid anyone, except himself, is truly refreshing. 

But the other assholes - they had power and they did nothing with it. So you know, they are ALSO at fault.

I will do February meditations now.