Posts

Showing posts with the label New Normal

Let's eat. Each other.

  Let's eat. Each other. IRINA SLAV About a year ago, I came across a website that seemingly promoted the self-donation of dying people to be used for meat after death. It was a really well done website, simple yet elegant and very, very convincing, up to and including in the section about the organisation having obtained all legal documents necessary to conduct its activity. Taught by life to expect pretty much everything from my fellow human beings I took the website seriously, at first. So did a lot of other people who didn’t take the time to really dig into the website to find it was, in fact, “a conceptual art project”. I can understand why. The idea of eating other humans was too outstandingly horrific to provoke anything other than outrage and disgust. Of course, the website no longer exists. Or maybe it’s hidden well. In any case, I couldn’t find it but I did find a series of “fact-checks”  telling  anyone interested that the good people behind the website were only making

The Perfidious Unreality of the “New Normal”

Image
  The Perfidious Unreality of the “New Normal” Kit Knightly So, what’s with all the fake crying? Rachel Maddow pretended to cry about  “kids in cages” . Matt Hancock pretended to cry about  Covid vaccines . Sarah Sidner pretended to cry  over covid . Anderson Cooper  pretended to cry about Israel , so did  John Kirby .  Van Jones  pretended to cry after Biden “won” the 2020 “election”.  Adam Schiff  and  Adam Kinzinger  both pretended to cry about January 6th. Don Lemon  pretends to cry  about  pretty much everything . They all do it, and they’re all so  bad  at it. And speaking of  pretending badly , remember those early photos of people in China lying in the street, straight as planks, supposedly killed by “Covid”? As if this scary new virus just snuffs you out mid-step to topple backwards flat on the ground in a perfect silent movie pratfall. And it’s not just “Covid”. During the run-up to the 2020 election “pretending badly” was happening everywhere. We were told, over and over aga