GM Nostr. I'm in a dark mood this morning.

In the US, we're staring down an presidential election where, on one hand, we have a deranged old man who can't even read a teleprompter and, on the other, a totally spoiled psychopath who thinks he's entitled to whatever he wants. The thing is, the actually agree on 99% of things behind closed doors. Keep the status quo going, keep their friends in power, take more freedom from the people.

In Europe, a union born from the horrors of two great world wars, they've been shockingly quick to forget that oppression and war always comes after you try and control speech, control flows of people and money, and force conformity. You're not "looking after the downtrodden", you're destroying the human spirit.

I never thought it could or would get to this level of state psychosis in my lifetime. I thought maybe the covid shit show might have been a turning point. A gaze into a dark abyss from which we'd recoil and start making the necessary changes. But it's clear that isn't the case. The political class continues to double down on limiting freedom, destroying livelihoods, and crushing dreams.

I really truly hope, for my kids generation, that we manage to unfuck this situation without another world war.

I'm unfortunately getting less and less optimistic about that.