I mean, it's depressing, even devastating, but it's better to know the truth.
It's just, it's the same dead kids every week. This week they died in a super cool explosion or got super cool cancer instead of dying in a super cool school shooting or choked to death by a couple super cool cops or died of a super cool preventable illness because their medication costs $2k a month, or gotten super cool lead poisoning from an emergency manager after being stripped of their democratic process. We shrugged about helping 9/11 first responders, you think people really care about some dead kids?
People don't care, not really, they say they do but they don't vote like it. The whole "thoughts and prayers" meme is a nod to just how little we really care. You wanna see people get real unhappy and start voting some fuckers out, make the flow of amazon packages stop. The dead kids don't matter, not like the packages do, people will line up and vote on that shit. If there is the perception of things going back to the way they were in 2020 with the supply chain people are gonna lose their fucking shit and vote in some really despicable motherfuckers (oh, it can always get worse). The trains gotta run.
The revealed preference of american society is stability above morality or dead kids. And we're willing to go pretty authoritarian too to get that stability, if it comes down to it, like the emergency manager shit. Biden's doing a great job catering to what americans really want and vote on, which is making the damn amazon packages show up.
America just wants to have a normal dinner for once. Yep, some kids died, that happens every week here and we just move on. More kids are gonna die next week, and the week after that too. Open for business, buddy, did I fucking stutter?
Shikata ga nai. There just isn't. Not unless an awful lot of people suddenly start being cool about an awful lot of stuff.
