Enough with the plague

Man, first I want a Cinci win over that Mama Death Star, then maybe 2022 will look better than 2021. In all seriousness, though, given all the idiocy in our foreign policy (our elites just want to keep tensions up with China and Russia, beyond stupid beyond the "let's not play chicken with nukes" there's also the fact that we need international cooperation to deal with things like nukes and Climate Change, but apparently our leaders, and the powers that be here at home, are all frothing at the bit for some kind of war something (to divert from their own stupidity), not to mention that both human nature and the structure of our nation state (most, it would seem) reward this kind of myopic thinking... so where does that leave us?
Definitely in need of some kind of change to the entire system, but how do we get that with so many entrenched and evil powers?
A hard af question to answer, reader, hard af .
That being said, I'm reading a book by a Frenchie called Anomaly , and it's solid (well, much of that remains to be seen, if the Times recommends it, I usually am not a huge fan), but dammit (and Roth's books had these as well) the veteran as some shitty stereo type of anger mixed with the idea of civilian stereotypes of the war and the people who fight it make it... well, just tiring. So much of writing is not writing truth as that boxing conman once said, but a matter of meeting and only slightly expanding some elite's (or with other popular pieces, someone with cash to spend on your work) worldview and never make them too uncomfortable. 
So it goes. 
Let's hope the new year doesn't bring us any new plagues, though the variants could be just as bad. Be safe. 
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