A hundred days into this year and we’ve already had multiple collapses, blood issues and a totality.
Sometimes, I’d like there to be a totality inside me, either to end it all or to burn away all the shit. Blind it with a shining aura, a brilliance unendurable except with the darkest glasses.
But the world keeps turning, a disturbing number of people think a man who thought it was intelligent to stare directly at an eclipse is a genius and hate seems to creep further into our lives each and every day.
We need another revolution. Another love-in.
Where’s our John and Yoko? Our sexual revolution appears to revolve around people making sex tapes, where wearing bikinis on your social media is a viable career path.
Where’s our screaming punk? Where’s our Kurt Cobain, hitting the nerves of a generation so raw that it changes entire cultures?
Where’s logic? Where’s freedom? Where are hearts and connection and compassion and a basic understanding of kindness?
Where’s the less ineffectual left? Where’s the sober right?
Where the fuck is everybody?
Social media is madness. Our world is mad.
This has been your daily agonized howl into the void, unable to stand anymore.
Target: 500 words
Written: 191 words, novella: The Mungk
Read: High Hunt, David Eddings
Comics: Y The Last Man 21-24
Music: Villains, The Verve Pipe