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Maybe I'm detached
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I'm not sure if it's the non-COVID ten day long sickness my body is fighting or a more general sort of nihilism, but I am clearly detached this week. Even the dumpster fire that is the United States doesn't seem to be concerning me at the moment, and these yahoos are endorsing Viktor Orbán and are surprised that the court didn't regulate corporate mandates (lol). Perhaps it is all unconcerning because the history of identity politics and the documented slides into civil disruption are so interesting.
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As with last week, I continue to be in quandary on the stories people are telling themselves (and others) about COVID and the vaccine. Last year I read Dark Mountain with interest and submitted (and was subsequently rejected) a piece to their publication. This week I clicked to an ebook that Paul Kingsnorth, one of the founders of Dark Mountain, wrote. It's not like I was ever a huge fan of this guy, but I at the least had a measured degree of respect for him as an intellectual and a writer. But he's missed such important steps, his arguments don't hold water. His work on the power of stories is enticing, but his reading of the current crisis is lunacy. Is feels like a waste of my time to point out all the flaws.
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Like everyone else in these trying times, I've found solace in the new internet sensation – a word puzzle. Just like my daily crossword (I like the Vox crosswords, but wish they were always the Saturday versions), I am both irritated and elated that I can only do one Wordle a day.
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Maybe I'm resolved
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How are your resolutions going? I'm amazed by how easily I'm achieving two things I thought would be hard. Apparently I just have to decide what I want to do, be or believe in and then my brain will do the rest. It's only problematic that I can't decide what I want out of life at the moment. I'll just remind myself it's fine right now.
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Maybe I need help?
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I just need to shake this cold. It's really starting to piss me off.
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