https://www.patreon.com/posts/this-is-why-you-146225130
"Remember way back in 2016, before the election, when there was some leftover
Scrooge-ember of warmth still innocently traipsing around the place and making
jokes about elections could feel somewhat cozy and not like punching a baby,
then guffawing in its face about how it has no future and never will? When Tom
Hanks went on
SNL and did a monologue as America’s Dad giving us a concerned
talk about what we’re doing with our life?
Well, this is that. Only I’m not America’s Mom by any means. No one is, because
America hates the absolute
bunting out of anyone who even vibes like she
wants to be our Mom.
I’m not even America’s drunk auntie. No, at best, I’m your weird out-of-town
cousin no one really invites to things who talks too much and makes everything
awkward by caring way too much and too bluntly about shit that’s not my
business. And I’m not really talking to America, but to individual Americans,
my fellow Americans, even. Except that I don’t think this vast pain really
stops at our borders. It’d be nice if it did, in a way.
But when you’re in real trouble, I’m the black sheep cousin who’ll take you to
a bottomless-booze brunch and lay out what that man is doing to you.
Welcome to the Girl What the Fuck Bar and Grill. Have a seat right over there,
cousin. In the smoking section because we all already have the same cancer, so
what difference does it make?
Hey, sweetheart. Order whatever you want. It’s on me. I just want to talk.
How are you all feeling these days? Not great? Yeah, I get that. Not great in a
weirdly specific way that, when you wake up and look around every single day,
it really seems like everyone is also weirdly, specifically, feeling?
For quite a few years now? Say, just to pull a random number, nine or ten?"
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
