There is a fundamental problem with our species. With humanity; a problem that dates back to the very beginning of recorded history and likely before that. A problem that can be effectively summarised by the results of the recent election in the United States and by reading the social media accounts of men like Elon Musk. Look no further than old men like Xi and Putin, the (admittedly younger) fat guy in North Korea. The nutjobs in Iran; the list goes on. It's not exhaustive, and it really does go on for a while.
The problem is old men who think they control everything. Old men who think they have the god-given right to control things they have no right to control. Recent comments by Elon Musk regarding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the subject of being forced by the US to "sit down and listen" effectively summarise and prove my point. The irony behind implying that Zelenskyy has 'no political experience' from a man that defines the Dunning-Kruger effect. Musk is a disgusting, arrogant and politically naive, ignorant pathetic little man and he has no right to influence anything let alone global politics and the future of sovereign states like Ukraine.
I simply have no words to describe, no words - none whatsoever - to describe how disgusted, how angry and how disappointed I am with our species, humanity. How these old men have risen to the point when their singular, warped and downright wrong views on subjects they don't understand can be as influential as they are. The United States now joins China (Beijing) and russia along with the other despotic shitholes, in representing the problem with humankind:
Old Men with a Lust for power and warped views on subjects they have no right to control.
Name a single global human-origin catastrophe that wasn't caused in large part by an Old (or not so old) man with a crazy view and far, far too much power.
This is not about culture vs culture. This is not about East vs West. This is not so much about Democracy vs Autocracy as it is 'a viable human future vs complete destruction'.
I have spent my entire life watching scumbag abusers get away with ruining lives, causing untold damage, on a personal level. I resonate with Ukraine's struggle for the same reason I feel so passionately angry about my childhood abuse. Ukraine is an innocent victim of an abusive aggressor and it fills me with a rage that turns me from an objective-thinking modest individual into an extremist. I despise the thoughts I have been cultivating inadvertently; they are not me. And as such, I have to withdraw from caring.
I must withdraw from giving a Flying Donkey-Rat's Crap Expulsion Cavity about anything that happens in this fucked up, beyond-saving shit-storm of a world we live in. Because I have no choice. I will go insane. I am already half way there. I can't type what I want to happen to men like Trump/Musk/Putin/Xi/Fatty, etc here because it violates the TOS of my provider in an extreme way. It also violates human rights, and, never-mind.
However, I will still donate monthly to the UAF/U24/UA charities on the ground in Ukraine and I will still write to my MP keeping the UK government in check with supporting Ukraine (always pushing for more support) and I will maintain every practical means of helping Ukraine as much as I can or more. I just can't cope with this shit emotionally anymore.
Don't think just because I don't want to emotionally care I will stop practically caring. Because I get a LOT of satisfaction about of thinking how my donations to the UAF are used to purchase weapons that eliminate russian invaders, and save Ukrainian lives.
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