"If where we’re meant to be is in America on the most bizarre timeline with the second political self-immolation of the year less than four months in." Sheesh, ugh, this is grim reminder that there isn't any shortage of macabre units of time that present themselves in this age of unhingement, as if to confirm your observation about "the shitshow construct that is time". We cannot help but think of how-many-children-killed-in-Gaza ago, or how many days spent by hostages in Hamas captivity, or how many days this journalist or those other people spent in Russian prisons ago, etc, etc. And, of course, we've already had for a long while how many mass shootings ago, how many Trump indictments ago. And soon we'll have how long since democracy ended...
Glad if I can provide food for thought; maybe you can can come up with something, write more about it; you can write. I just write comments to keep me from reading too many comments.
"If where we’re meant to be is in America on the most bizarre timeline with the second political self-immolation of the year less than four months in." Sheesh, ugh, this is grim reminder that there isn't any shortage of macabre units of time that present themselves in this age of unhingement, as if to confirm your observation about "the shitshow construct that is time". We cannot help but think of how-many-children-killed-in-Gaza ago, or how many days spent by hostages in Hamas captivity, or how many days this journalist or those other people spent in Russian prisons ago, etc, etc. And, of course, we've already had for a long while how many mass shootings ago, how many Trump indictments ago. And soon we'll have how long since democracy ended...
I’m still thinking about the macabre units of time 🫠
Glad if I can provide food for thought; maybe you can can come up with something, write more about it; you can write. I just write comments to keep me from reading too many comments.
Mission accomplished, but you started it 😏
It's the weekend, but unhingement doesn't take a break; just reading the news headlines is enough to despair.
"30 years on, South Africa's dream of unity lies shattered"
"Iraqi TikTok star Umm Fahad shot dead in Baghdad"
And I barely started doom scrolling...