on the upside - this is the best time ever to take photos and film of other people in public doing shit - cos they all got masks on and you don't have to blur their faces after the fact. They come pre-blurred, if you will.
ooh, there's a sound in the hallway. Can only mean one of seven things. 1.) dinner is served 2.) Bagman Jack Herbert is back for more corruption money 3.) the government workers want to swap places with me 4.) more coffee 5.) I woke up from a nightmare and I'm really booked in here to play a concert at the convention center tomorrow night 6.) whatever six was, or 7.) the cleaning crew are making their first appearance. Too late, I've washed my own stuff already and drying it outside on the balcony with the low center of gravity railing or else drying it in the closet with the complementary hair dryer. Ooooohhh it's tinker bell - that means FOOD.
A certain amount of modesty prevents any balanced individual from claiming that the reason things are tight is mainly the fault of someone else. The rich rely on the normal human decency of other people to permit them to continue on with their pilfering of the world, its resources and its citizens. In the same way that a bully relies on the reticence of his hapless victim and the paedophile relies on the helplessness and shame of his victim to keep the machinations of exploitation in place and steadily rolling. Power must be an intoxicating drug. It must be a seductive enabler. Studies have shown this. Any given group of people, handed the reins of power for any period, soon abuse that power. People come to believe there is something divine or God-given in their ascent to a position of power or control - whether over other people or even animals. We all recall teachers who seemed to revel in meting out punishment for this or that – detentions, extra home wor...
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