General Malaise

[morgan_dhu]

It's getting so hard to read the papers. Not that there's ever been all that much to cheer about in the news, but it's getting so damned ire-raising and depressing all at once.

If it's not war, torture, pestilence, famine, disaster and ruin, or the callous disregard of human rights around the globe, it's lying, cheating and general asshattery everywhere you look. What the fuck are we doing to ourselves, our neighbours, our fellow lifeforms, our one and only distressed and wheezing planet? Are there enough people out there who have a clue about at least some of this to make a difference? Or are we doomed to follow the bloody standards and beating drums of the people who want power and the accumulation of things more than peace, more than justice, more than compassion, more than clean air and water and soil? Is there any point in trying any more?

And yet, and yet... how do I live with the fact that I'm one of the relatively few who has some measure of choice in all this? I have the privilege - at least for now - to say "I don't want to think about all this stuff, I'll just sit back and enjoy the comforts of a middle-class western life," unlike those who wake up every day to the bombs and the guns and all the other threats to life and liberty and health and safety.

I think I'll go and howl.

Comments

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

Is FX the same as Fox? (I'm in Canada and am not familiar with all the U.S. channels, and there are many that I have no access to.)

[semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com]

no, FX is different from FOX... I hope you get this in time and that you have the channel... ack!

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

Nope, we don't get that one. Some Canadian channel will probably purchase the rights sooner or later - that's what usually happens, though it's annoying when you can't see something everyone is talking about until months later.

On the other hand, Canada is seeing the new series of Doctor Who and it's not airing in the U.S., so sometimes it works out the other way around.

[semiotic-pirate.livejournal.com]

Arrrgh! No new Dr.Who for me! Waaaaaaaaaaaaah! ::major upset::

My S/O doesn't like that one bit, he has been a gigantic fan for ages - even had one of those scarves made for him by his Mum a while back when he was in college. Heh.

[morgan-dhu.livejournal.com]

Shall I make your distress even greater by saying that the new series is very good? It's matured to the point where it's clearly more of an adult-oriented show that children could still watch, it preserves most of what was great about the old series while using modern dramatic conventions for how the stories are presented. It's going back to a good many of the old meta-themes and looking at what they mean. and it's still fun to watch.

And, oddly enough, I knit a Tom Baker scarf for a good friend of mine back when I was in college.