Life is a Cabaret

It is red carpet season and the streets are filled with blood.

A woman cuts a solitary figure in a blurry video taken at dusk. She is screaming. “Cierra las puertas”. “Quèdanse adentro”. “Estan aqui”. A five-year-old boy wearing bunny ears on his way home from school was detained. I suppose he must have been a criminal, they said it’s to get the criminals.

Bad Bunny won album of the year at the Grammys. His English was fine.

They disarmed then shot a man named Pretti. He was an intensive care nurse. A woman named Good too. They shot her as well. Domestic terrorists. AI is supposed to be taking our jobs. If all it takes is six weeks of training to be judge, jury, and executioner, then I don’t think that’s true. Young people just don’t know how to apply themselves.

Videos and pictures are fake now, but we are all too scared to acknowledge it. What happens to the social contract if we do? Governments aren’t scared to. They just ignore them. They’ve been doing that for a while. It started with a command; we were told to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears. Now we know for sure that we can’t trust them. I saw a bikini picture of myself on the internet. I’ve never taken one. The videos and pictures from the Pretti/Good shootings weren’t even that entertaining. AI could have made them better.

Conspiracy theorists are proven right; the elites enjoy pizza with a side of prostitution, human trafficking, and the rape of young girls. Online, it’s a major meme and a minor scandal. A desperate Musk never made the guest list. A desperate royal enjoyed the photoshoots (and Russian girls). The President remains The President.

#notallbillionaires

Since the ceasefire, more than 520 Palestinians have been killed by Israel. They are still calling it a ceasefire. Hollywood stars have stopped wearing pins for Palestine. They’ve stopped talking about it too. It never really went with their outfit. Sydney Sweeney says that she makes art. Art isn’t political. The nuclear weapons pact that placed limits on Russia and the United States expires tomorrow. Ukraine’s fate depends on them both. I always thought that Hollywood helped win the Cold War. ‘Soft power’ they called it.

Raw milk doesn’t expire and it can also kill you.

In England it was once tradition to put the heads of treasonous criminals on spikes on London Bridge. It served as both a threat and a warning. They can’t get away with that anymore, it is just so 15th century. Now, they hang English flags off lampposts in the name of tradition. It also serves as a threat and a warning, but we can’t say that. Free speech. There are two cultish figures on the scene: Nigel Farage and Paddington Bear. Both are omnipresent and omnipotent and their followers will hear that they have done no wrong. If it wasn’t for the prices keep going up, life would be stagnant.

2016 was the first time I remember it getting bad. I miss it. Thankfully, it’s trending and I can reminisce the start of the end.