As if the Planet didn’t have enough to deal with from the climate crisis, and while most of the educated world is desperately trying to stamp out fires, Trump is actively lighting one and pouring petrol on it.
Alienating woke micro-aggression policing Identity Politics activists to the left of me, climate denying crypto-fascist alt-right incel Trolls to the right of me, and here I am stuck in the middle with you.
…Scott Morrison is a right wing fundamentalist Christian climate denying coal loving arsehole who won the last election online by playing to the worst angels of the Australian nature.
The evolution of our shared human experience has been eclipsed by corporate tech algorithms designed to enslave & divide us for profit.
Police should look to write warnings and destroy any guns found rather than a punitive arrest and prosecution model so as to not enflame events that could spin out of control.
It’s funny seeing many NZ outlets reviewing the past decade when the vast majority of them are incapable of reviewing the very week they are publishing in.
The need to not focus on those issues is part of the need to keep citizens blind to the frontline of the existential crisis we find ourselves in at the turn of the decade.
There needs to be a wholesale re-investment into Local Government so that instead of being a faux democratic choice, citizens actually feel like their vote means something rather than an act masquerading as democracy for the illusion of legitimacy.
I’ve just had a couple of days camping. Time to escape the jingles; the advertising invoking us to spend, spend, spend; the overconsumption and the manic traffic. Time to reflect on the end of the year, the end of the decade, and according to the Doomsday Clock, the end of the world.