Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Per wiki:
The poem is also connected to the 1918–1919 flu pandemic: In the weeks preceding Yeats's writing of the poem, his pregnant wife Georgie Hyde-Lees caught the virus and was very close to death. The highest death rates of the pandemic were among pregnant women—in some areas, they had up to a 70 percent death rate. While his wife was convalescing, he wrote "The Second Coming".
Honestly, I guess this is to be expected: the combination of a) awards show, b) the NFL/corporate sport in general, c) extreme wokeness, and d) ABC America, but man…
I honestly don’t think it could get any more woke and childish if it tried. Fuck, is this what woke propaganda for eeeedgits looks like??!!
The Los Angeles Inner City Youth Orchestra soundtracking it, amidst all the rap n sheeeit..?
Fucking A…
Nonetheless, Aaron Rodgers won the MVP, which is a fucking massive win for us “plague rats”, lol. I couldn’t be happier about that.
The crowd, including the “vaxxed” players, looked fucking LIVID, after Rodgers spoke. Brilliant. 👌🏻
Fuck. Them. All…
The Winter Olympics: Beijing propaganda edition started last night. Well, the sports did. Not the Opening Ceremony. I know I "shouldn't" be watching, and I do intend to avoid the cultural stuff, but I'm genuinely passionate about Winter Sports (for... Reasons), so I intend to watch my country's athletes in action, where possible, and when I'm not doing other things (it's in a good time zone for me, so help me, lol).
Anyway, I watched the "mixed doubles" Curling last night, because it was the first sport event on. Australia was playing the USA. Round robin. I don't really give a fuck about curling (was much more interesting live, in person, anyway...), but I noticed something rather interesting, about the team dynamics...
In the American team, they were a couple, and both the guy and girl did an equal share of the work. The throw (or whatever the technical term is) of the rock, and the sweeping, or "curling"... They took it in terms. Naturally, this meant that the man did not get so worn out...
Why this was interesting? The contrast to the Australian team. I watched the whole thing. The Australian woman only threw maybe... 5 times, the whole game, and only swept once. She let the man do literally all the hard work, and spent the entire time yelling instructions. She then complained *when each "rock" didn't go exactly as planned...
She got have helped. She chose not to. And then yelled and screamed the entire time, while grinning from ear to ear. As a result, the bloke was exhausted, naturally enough, because he had to do all the work. There was no "rule", at play, here. No reason for it. She just chooses not to actually do the physical work. So naturally, they fucking lost. Right at the last minute (last rock), too...
And yet, when they were interviewed before and afterwards, she did all the talking, and the bragging. About "how they should have won", and "how it could have gone better". The bloke was almost too exhausted to talk.
It was made very apparent, before and afterwards, that they were not a couple, and that the bloke may well have been a fag. Amusingly enough, especially with how "whipped" he was...
His dad was providing the commentary, on the TV. I don't think he was terribly impressed with what went down...
Anyway, I just thought that was utterly symbolic of the relationship between most (adult) men and women, in Australia right now: The woman yells and screams, and then complains when it "isn't perfect", and the man does all the actual work, in this case literally. I grew up in that sort of environment. Let me tell you, it isn't healthy. And yet, my parents are somehow still together, so lord knows, maybe some men are just... Meant for that role. :-/
Anyway, they (the Aussie curling pair) are playing again today, twice, so it will be interesting to see if he continues to put up with the humiliation, or whether they implode, spectacularly, on mic and camera, lol... Because I know I wouldn't put up with that, for an entire week, if it was me, and if doing the work of two humans was enough to leave me nearly fainting by the end of each "end", lol...
Tom Brady. It’s always fucking games with Tom Brady in them…
Not sure if anyone is watching rn, or saw Green Bay vs 49ers yesterday, or Dallas the week before, but fuck, the sport is in a bad place, right now, with officiating, and “rule application”, and strategy, and gameplay, and just… All that bullshit. Never mind the commentary, with commentators (on NBC) one of whom does not know who Rube Goldberg was, or what a single scull is… 😳
My god, how can the teams (apart from Cinci, somehow) be this bad?? How???
It’s the little things, honestly.
I’m at the cricket. Atmosphere is… Very “controlled”, let’s say.
This is Australia, right, and it’s cricket, so… Masks (but no vaxx mandate, otherwise I wouldn’t be here, obviously!), security fucking everywhere, literal propaganda messaging coming over the big screen every break, and every few “overs” (“Stay safe! Wear your mask! Behave or we will throw you out! Report anti-social behaviour to this text line”, etc)…
I’ve seen people arrested, and beach balls confiscated, amongst so many other “warnings”, and fuckery by security, and I’ve only been here a few hours…
I no longer give a fuck. Especially post-#Djokergate, and so I have stopped complying…
Mask off, and I fuck with these authoritarian tyrants at every last opportunity. Booing, swearing, I give them as much shit as I can, without being arrested, especially when they come for people near me (including a kid, for trying to rescue a beach ball before the security guard popped it). And when the woke ads, or “safety messages” come over, I boo as loud as I can, to drown it out. “Wear your mask or we’ll evict you!” - Yeah, get fucked, cunt!
People fucking LOVE it. Some have taken off their masks, because I have. Others have them down. Whenever I fuck with the authorities, others cheer and join in. Or laugh.
Oh, and my father is so disappointed it is genuinely hilarious. Makes me happy. I live to see him “disappointed” in me. 🥲
It’s the little things, honestly.
Do your best to be an example to others, and let’s fucking end this… 🤷🏻♂️