The State of Things

Some of you might be old and nerdy enough to remember the excellent Batman of The Future [or Batman Beyond as it was known elsewhere]. The opening sequence was really hard hitting for an animation aimed at teenagers. "Apathy. Greed. Corruption. Power. Hope" flashes across the title screen as a pumping techno-rock soundtrack set the tone for the show. It often feels as if that is the world I live in now. A world of falseness and negativity. We all seem to be striving for something that once was - our last hope - yet we're blindly accepting of tired of pop-culture nostalgia and political insanity. When apathy meets nostalgia, things get dangerously close to stagnation. Where is our cultural and societal progress? Our political parties are in disarray in the West, and extremist rhetoric seems to hold greater appeal to many frustrated individuals. If history is going to repeat itself once again, will our tired world allow charismatic fascists to gain ground as they have don

This is worth talking about.  My own country seems to have voted itself into an effective one party system (with the media/propaganda reels repeatedly trying to enforce the idea of a weak opposition down our throats), and, well, everything sucks.  This is how it is: the overwhelming majority of all humans are idiots. I'm talking crushingly, brutally painfully uneducated, unaware and ignorant. Sometimes this ignorance is *deliberate,* because it's better off not being aware of how horribly you were lied to about, say, £350 million per week?  I wilfully include myself amongst the ingnorant masses, because I know that I don't have all the answers. The truth of it is, there are some people who make it their life's work to know better than us, though often those same folk are plain old, fallible, corruptible humans. I get it - most of the time it's better to stay safe in your little bubble, and vote for your own selfish needs. The world is a scary place an