And this, you've probably noticed how restrained I've been in commenting on Current Events. I mean, Trump, the elections, pandemic, Alberta, Toronto, the world at large, the eventual and much anticipated "return to normalcy", which will - hate to break it to you - probably never happen.
The news, overwhelming, even a few minutes inoculates you against disbelief, and how much now is not being reported, front page stories sidelined for more election nonsense, more idiocies, the no-longer gradual seizing of liberties, out-and-out robbery, kidnapping, abduction and state-sanctioned murder, and people rally to protest having to wear a mask?
The world has gone insane, and you couldn't make fun of it if you tried. The news, generally bad and at best irrelevant. A photo of a mylar kids balloon, released by the military as proof of UFO's, photographed by a jet, they have to be trolling us, the rumour of a "Galactic Federation", but - really - wake up tomorrow, see spaceships hovering in the sky, laser-guns blasting the White-House, it would be at the end just another day in 2020, no need to raise an eyebrow, nothing to see here.
I haven't been paying so much attention, crazy busy summer, travel, homeless, I've had a lot of other things on my plate. But this pandemic - it's not over yet, not by a long shot, and the dominoes that have started to fall won't upright themselves once there's a vaccine. The system is not even broken, it was built this way, by design, and is functioning much as it should or would be expected.
A few things that amaze me: How China, almost a year in to it - has come away looking like the good guys. Compared to the US, the UK, even a lot of aspects of Canada - it is not the worst place in the world. Here we have illusions of freedom, until they're tested and fail, there they merely know the rules. They're simply under no such illusions.
Maybe it's time. "Normal" was a comfortable place for us to be, but not a good place, not for our citizens, neighbors, planet, so maybe it needs a good shaking up. It's merely the uncertainty of where things will go to next, and without leadership - of any sort - how will we get there?