First, kinda ot, is that I've been reading LRB articles on my phone at night. Now, having your phone by your bedside is supposedly the worst thing for your sleep. Some people blame the light. Some special light that kills ones sleep. I believed it at first, but now that I've been reading long articles instead of scrolling useless blogs and twitter threads for the id of humanity, I've seen this to be a lie. See, I've fallen asleep as easily as ever.
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So it's not the light (some silver tongued bastard from the new media must have come up with that to deflect blame from certain companies) but the algorithms and how they mine humanity for "wit" or garbage of the id, all separated by tribal allegiances (one of the reasons social media is the crack to other forms, like blogs, cocaine).
Yeah, well that's one thing I've been thinking on. The other is that the corruption worldwide, the austerity forced upon the poor (or middle class if it really gets bad) while the rich keep getting away with stealing. Here's a piece on Lebanon. This especially seems pertinent to even our nation and the issues that we are dealing with. And in many ways, I think this will be on the tombstone of constitutional democracy if all it does is enable corruption:
"The Lebanese government does not provide electricity, fuel, education, security, healthcare or traffic lights, but makes a great show of its commitment to the judicial process and the finer points of the law."
Note how they can't even get an investigation into their explosion because of all the lawsuits. I'd call this death by lawyers.
Of course things can get worse in terms of having outside influence or straight up overthrow of the gov, mainly by us. This being pretty worse.
The election period has already been marked by violence, with the deaths of around thirty congressional or local candidates, mainly from opposition parties.
Still, it seems our gov wants to do some interfering yet again (and those who screamed Russia will say nothing as usual). I mean seriously:
In the year since Biden was elected president, the number of people apprehended at the Mexican border has reached a record high of 1.7 million. A fifth of them came from Honduras. The narcostate is also a failed state. It failed to deal with the pandemic and has Central America’s highest Covid death rate. It failed to respond to two major hurricanes last year, with many people still left homeless. Seven in ten households live in poverty despite $20 billion supposedly being devoted to tackling the problem since the last election (after publishing the poverty figures, the national statistics institute hurriedly deleted them)
Yeah and the comments on that are spot on.
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