Close To The Edge

The abyss yawns menacingly before us.

It's like we're playing out the scene from Men In Black where K explains the bigger picture to J.

ie: We're always on the brink of disaster in one way or another, and the only way we get through it is to make sure normal everyday people don't know what's actually going on.

So we're learning about more of the skullduggery that Trump was (and undoubtedly still is) pulling, and the prospects just seem to get worse.

But some revelations can be both demoralizing and maybe a little hopeful at the same time.

As we see billionaires starting to come clean about their efforts (and successes) at buying their way to power, it seems like the rest of us are losing, but maybe that knowledge gives enough people enough of a peek at how fucked up it is to allow these rich fucks to own government that we start to work at changing what we see in the Overton Window, and drag our politics back to a more reasonable position.

As usual, I dunno. Maybe I have no fucking clue about anything - or I have the wrong idea about everything - but even though part of me prefers to be blissfully ignorant, I can't stop watching.