The Idiot's Guide to the Pandemic

It is sometimes tempting to say that calamity may do some good in that there will be so many cavemen dead- fewer women have gone- women are smarter so that fewer will perish and if you look around I look around and I see that first of all they don't respect the rules and with that they don't care about anybody else but themselves.
William Golding when asked about his Magnum opus Lord of the Flies said there is one main thing in there -these are not in those exact words -but he said if you don't have rules you have nothing that's the key message we get from the chaos that takes place on that island where we have teenagers on a rampage...but but if we look at the world now, we see so many teenagers real and just with an undeveloped mind, Trump comes to mind, as always in those last disastrous 3 years, they fool around,actually it's not foolishly but catastrophically, they walk around here like thereisno lockdown- this is a gated community with people who think they are on top of the world and they just walk around in this neighbourhood  which looks like a heavily crowded mall, quite open. Care free about the place and the restrictions are nothing to them and this has been going on forever... close to 50% out of 400 houses have dogs, but these are quadrupeds that mostly live on two to one square metre of space, chained and barking... there's one close by and barks all the time, all the time I'm it's not the animal... it's the idiot monster master to blame, indeed another story is this: these are people who own the business that was proved to be deadly, in that they were providing hospitals, clinics, Medics with what was  supposed to be disinfectant. only when tested, the disinfectant proved to be water with some drops of alcohol, something useful in a proportion of one part to 2000 what it should be... though the guy supposedly in charge paid the ultimate, supreme price for it, the connections, inheritors or whatever are here, around the corner and they don't give a damn about the rest... this is where one of those dogs is going nuts, Barking and Barking and barking, f*** the rest of the people, the message Is we don't give a s*** let him bark, the dog is suffering in the Orchard Farm and  whatever the rest are enduring, going crazy with this continuous attack on the mind and wellbeing and equanimity...f*** that 

Funny games at home

The pandemic that is now weighing heavily on the world makes the undersigned think of communism…is this worse than that period – if we die, it is, but otherwise, we may take solace from the fact that this looks like a piece of cake, when compared with that ultimate catastrophe – though many would disagree, since they entertain ‘socialist’ ideas, like the supporters of and silly old Bernie himself, who has spent his holyday in Moscow, in the soviet union days no less, and seems to have learned nothing from the experience, except to vote recently against punitive measures against Putin, initiated after a lawyer died in a Russian jail, just because he has sounded the alarm on corruption, which is the substance of the present and the soviet regimes…

The Soviets have killed more people than the loathsome Nazis and if we add the Chinese, especially during their Mao days, even if they are not nice at all to dissidents, whom they kidnap and send to prison in a flash, they take them from Hong Kong as well, then the figures would pass anything this Covid 19 might do, although it is early to say and it is clearly deadly for 2, maybe 3 percent of those who catch it and much worse for the old age group and those who already have some other, pre-existing condition that accelerate the advance of the virus…

Then there is also the question of the extent of the calamity, given that this would pass in a matter of months – some say in July or August…the cretin in the White House has said the other day that he has asked his experts and that is what they answered…but then this is a creature that has lost all credibility, given his pathological lying and the fact that on this very catastrophic subject he had dismissed it, called it a hoax created by the Democrats and that it will miraculously pass and get to zero, only two weeks ago, maybe as recently as ten days before belatedly coming to realize this is not just a ‘flu’

However, august or sometime after that, the pandemonium is likely to last much less than the more deadly communism, with its more than seventy years in the Soviet Union – some would argue that they still have something very similar now, when the Supreme Leader has been given another fourteen years to stay at the helm, more that Ivan the Terrible, if I remember correctly – and around forty four here, in our land, where we still pay the price and have some leaders that pay tribute to that awful past, they have quite the same ideas and where they have changed, they still respect the principle from Animal Farm – ‘all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others’…this does not apply to the impressive Klaus Johannis, an admirable, calm, restrained, serious figure for me and to a lesser extent to the liberal party

Yes, the PNL has many problems, though I am still loyal to them, I can see that there is much to be changed there…nevertheless, the furious attacks from the spouse seem more than over the top, exaggerated and they are simply wrong…these insults are clearly less destined for the flawed liberals and more for the stupid, lazy, ignominious, terrible, vicious, fucked up husband, who should leave, contract the Corona virus and get lost in one way or another…

Yesterday I was sent packing form one of the most idiotic movies imaginable, Murder Mystery, with Adam Sandler – quite good in Uncut Gems, but silly as ever in the Mystery – and some quite good artists – one of them, David Walliams was glorious in Little Britain, one of the most hilarious series ever, but has little to work with in such a stupid set up.

Given that this is as brain damaging as a film can be, the insistence on seeing this could only make me part and find something else to do…the effort I made to have on the now seriously big screen at home – a Samsung with 189 cm diagonal is there – features included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list has not been paid with gratefulness, but on the contrary, with disdain…yes, I tend to interrupt them and have them screened in two installments, but then the likes of The High and the Mighty are two and a half hours

Besides, most of the time, the spouse is actually watching the phone and yesterday claimed these are stupid pictures I select…though even the most controversial one could not conceivably be compared with Murder Mystery…

Which brings about questions about goals, Meaning, Achievement…is this what I struggled for…well, criticism that would be more than pertinent would emphasize that struggle means some agitated, full years in communism, but more or less leisure for the past maybe fifteen years or more, depending on how we take the efforts made for this house, the one before in Rosenau and this continuous tension, the infamous cat and mouse game with get out, this is the end, it cannot go on like this…with me expected to just vacate the premises, probably continue to pay in whatever sums are required and increase the down payments, perhaps exponentially…

There has always been a continuous pressure on the subject of money…a few days ago, a trip to the supermarket for the dog’s meat was in the cards and when I protested that with that trip, other supplies would have to be bought – it is a crisis and then this is not around the corner and the gas and the money spent for the journey will be better used if spread over more than the food for the precious pet…infinitely more valuable that the goddamn, idiotic me…

Coronavirus and optimism

Coronavirus and optimism

There could be nothing promising about a virus that kills people, is set to become a pandemic and has already crossed the borders and ocean to infect people in perhaps more than fifty countries as of now, and to belittle it could be as stupid as Trump is – which in fact means minimum minimorum…now that is something which would be interesting to hear coming out of the mouth of Fat Donnie – the commander in chief who is only interested in getting reelected and not even that, for he does not care if the population actually selects him, if the Russians somehow steal the votes for him or he just keeps the power anyway by refusing the results, that would suit him just as well…

On another level though, the coronavirus does have some advantages, though it takes a sardonic cynic perhaps to look at the prospect of having less people on a planet that they have anyway brought close to Apocalypse – at the present for a multitude of species and billions of animals killed directly or as a consequence of the Climate change brought about by mankind…it is estimated that in the recent Australian massive wild fires, a billion (!) beings have died – in such a careless, “Inhumane” – think of the mirthful paradox here – manner, with total lack of respect and consideration for other inhabitants of the planet.

Some of the leaders of this ‘advanced’ age epitomize the thinking – although here we would need a strong antonym for thinking – the attitude, the egotism, superficiality, ignorance and catastrophic lack of EQ of billions that choose to select the likes of Trump, Putin, Bolsanaro, Duterte, Xi – although here there is the problem of the absence of choice, as in the case of Putin and so many others, though so many love this kind of ‘leader’ anyway and opt freely for vicious, murdering, monstrous thugs that millions love, not just opt for – Maduro and so many others that have not gained power in absolute form, but still won so many ballots…Salvini, Le Pen and so many others make the list, as well as some thugs and thieves from my own land…

Then there is the ‘crisis ‘that is threatening all of us economically and though I hate to think about the consequences – hence the idea of writing for my ‘pleasure ‘to let some steam off and find some other logic, sense and redemption…writing is supposed to help  your mind in the effort of making sense of a crazy world (think of the previous list of ‘elected officials) and put some distance between the worse aspects of your life and the same mind…though here there is some controversy I would say, in the sense that there is a happiness exercise called ‘count your blessings’ through which one is invited to list every day the three or five things that happened during the day and which are wonderful or anyway positive and there is also the practice of writing about negative events with the idea that they would grow distant, as I said…but then which is it…write about good or bad things?

Sonja Lyubomirsky, a sensational expert on positive psychology, author of The How of Happiness, indicates that the ‘count your blessings exercise’ is better practiced once a week, in something of an opposition to what Tal Ben-Shahar and others argue, suggesting a daily ‘Gratitude Exercise’, which might end up with far fewer blissful moments if repeated daily…

Be that as it may, there is less pollution now that activity has slowed down, with places in Wuhan and elsewhere in China isolated by the infamous virus sending shock waves through economies everywhere, given that cars, iPhones and everything else depends on what they make in china, and the stock market has plunged, oil prices have fallen, because there is so much diminished demand for it…which surely translates into fewer polluting emissions into the atmosphere…though if we all die because of the covid 19, the only gain would be for the rest of the planet, the animals that would breathe in exultation, given that their worst enemy is now gone…well, dogs, cats and my parrots would have to go feral and fend for themselves and many would not manage and abide by the rule of the survival of the fittest rule

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in The Greatest Show on Earth

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in The Greatest Show on Earth

The Senate trial of the most loathsome conman on Earth has been a mockery, in spite of the fact that here and elsewhere in the world, we looked at America for the Greatest show on Earth, not just in terms of Avengers, Hollywood super productions that might be responsible in part for the rise of Trump and the dumbing down of his base – seeing as they concentrate on the money and any intelligent notion in many, perhaps most of these productions appears to disappear – but also for the democracy which had been such a role model for our countries, in what used to be The Third World, but now it is ages ahead of the US, at least politically, for you have to long hard for countries that have such an idiot in the driver’s seat, never mind if we make ‘price per parity’ comparisons, look at the centuries they had had that now compromised constitution, the levels of comfort and other such compounding factors…

Senators from states like Alabama, Texas – with that absolute creep, Ted Cruz, the one insulted by the Monster in the White House, when they were competing for the republican nomination, on the matter of his father, who according to the Biggest Liar ever had been involved in the killing of Kennedy, then he made viral a photo of the wife in which she looks like the inside of the head of that fool that they call the first lady – Alaska and the list is long have demonstrated an abhorrent, disgusting disregard for the rule of law, American traditions, values they used to stand for – well, wait, maybe they never really stood for them, or indeed anything expect their own benefits and aggrandizement, just like the Leader of their New Cult, one in which Russia is the new name of their country – after all, their supporters wear proudly shirts with ‘I would rather be a Russian than a Democrat’.

To see what this scoundrel has done, selling his country and its security to whoever would promote his interests and that immensely sick ego, supporting Putin over the FBI, CIA and all the other agencies – which he does not believe, unless of course they promote some idea that he likes – peddling idiotic, catastrophic conspiracy theories cooked in the Kremlin and the new KGB headquarters, in what the splendid Adam Schiff called brilliantly ‘the biggest security coup in the history of Russia’,  for never before, not even in the cold War period have they managed to make an American leader, never mind the top dog, advance whatever they invented, to divert the attention from their real attack on American and other elections, from Madagascar to Britain, and make stupid and contemptible individuals believe that it was not them, but the Ukraine.

This absolute Crook has after all addressed the Russians directly, when he asked them to ‘find the 30,000 Clinton emails that are missing…you would be rewarded for it…’and he never stopped after that, confirming in televised interviews that he would take information from a foreign country if offered, asking the president of the Ukraine to investigate his rival, holding about four hundred million dollars that had been approved by Congress in order to extort that man and then boasting that this was ‘perfect’, manifesting the behavior of a mafia godfather, and insisting at the same time that he ‘has the right to do whatever he wants’, presumably thinking that he is a monarch or dictator…he loves tyrants, from Putin to the one he loves in north Korea, from Erdogan to Duterte…

Just as we can see on the latest Real Time show with Bill Maher and on other media segments where specialists are invited, this lunatic is unable to talk properly, he mumbles words, as at the latest at one of his crazy rallies – where multitudes show that this phenomenon, gruesome and nauseating as it is represent tens of millions of mentally challenged people, mostly in southern, God fearing states…which is another inexplicable, hallucinating notion, that millions of believers, many of them hard core conservatives stand for the epitome of Sin, if there is a devil, then this is his representative, no matter how they boast him as the Chosen, just because he puts in place judges for their anti-abortion ideals.

So the Senators that disgracefully voted not just against conviction – well, not yet, but on Wednesday – but also against hearing any witnesses – the first time in history in a trial of this kind – are a shame for democracy in general, not just the Southern Belt kind, and here and in other places, we can be proud that first of all, we would not accept someone like Trump to lead us – they make such a fuss about his supposed acumen for business, when this man ruined other businesses by cheating, bankrupted casinos, cheated in his fake charity – think about that, this is a monstrous thief – created a phony University and the list is too long and sickening to continue – and second of all, we would not elect senators like Cruz, Rubio or even the lousy one from Alaska, who stood on the fence to the end, only to reject witnesses…

Ali Baba and his Forty Thieves have found another eleven in the ‘greatest legislative body of the world’…yeah, right, perhaps Putin’s world…

Memories Bring Back Memories

Memories Bring Back Memories

A song by Maroon 5 with these words seems to be popular these days, for if I heard about it, that means they must be everywhere on the internet and sound waves, and I could start with this morning and see where that takes it – another stop might be in the mountains, where for some reason the mind wondered a little bit earlier – when there was a mirthful conversation at the club, where one man was speaking about the next weekend and a possible sortie into town, where he has seen an opera recently, the classic Aida, with a good performance apparently, albeit when asked who was in it, the man did not know, which can only mean he is not an aficionado, though with that he is many levels above me, who would be bored stiff during a whole, long Don Giovanni, say – indeed, when much younger, Aida proved to be a torment and not an entertainment for this flimsy, superficial, musically ignorant dude…

The musical man went on to express disgust at a previous soiree, during which he had gone to enjoy something else – was it Il Barbiere di Siviglia or was it another magnum opus? – only to be tremendously disappointed when the new mise en scene would have characters dressed with anti- terrorist outfits and apparently the stage, some other costumes, maybe everything lacked decorum and our art lover left the House at entr’acte, furious with this Lèse-majesté, which would be fine, only the way he put it was almost hilarious…’ce pula mea’, which is something like ‘what the penis…or maybe what the fuck’, which contrasts with the high bar placed on the new production is such a stark manner…

I mean, on the one hand, the new director was so appalling in choosing modern costumes and a transfer to the modern age of some classic, older story and Our Man in Havana is allowed to say fuck, cock quite a few times, on top of the fact that he had already proved he is not a ‘purist’, an old timer, specialist in the opera – in which he had no idea who stars, not a soprano, not a single name – and he never mentioned some other change that could have troubled his delicate sense of Music, like a false note there, a difference in the libretto that would hurt those familiar with the works…

Which of course reminds one of the joke with ‘I am a gentlemen, what the fuck’, though to be fair, the man does try to get above his level, which is higher than mine, so this is not to make fun of him, for he is the one going to watch not just one opera, but may be a regular and even if I said he is not, maybe he is a real aficionado, while I am just hearing one aria on Mezzo, once in a while, and not even stop to absorb, exult, luxuriate in apocalyptic tunes, but only put it as background when reading, never mind going to the trouble of ennobling myself in the reverence of a performance hall, where I would most likely – what am I saying, definitely – be bored stiff…

Indeed, Memories ‘bring back memories’ as Maroon 5 has it and I remember now the manner in which we attended a concert of classical music, some thirty, maybe thirty five years ago, where we went, my sister and I, in the company of our cousin and then very good friend, Adi, who was in a mood to joke, and like us presumably, not very keen to levitate on the notes from the bassoon, the viola, the trombones or all combined and thus he kept changing places, which I think started happening after he made us laugh – well, almost, we made every effort not to break down - and we tried to avoid an embarrassing situation where we would collapse in a roar and would be evicted, or worse, maybe jailed…who knows what the punishment is for such an assault to the decency, the refined taste, the serenity of the ‘pula mea crowd’

21st of January

21^st of January

Though the Trump impeachment trial starts in the Senate today, there is a zero chance that the lunatic will be sent on his way, and this means that the clown does represent a massive sixty million crowd of idiots, that have elected another bunch of fools, beside the cretin that sits in the White House and watches Fox News all day, except for when he has the raging breakdowns on twitter, that are sure to acquit an individual that is clearly not just guilty, but shows no shade of remorse…

At least Bill Clinton was meek and penitent, once they caught him lying about the oral sex in the Oval Office, and that was such a minor offence when compared to the machinations of a demented man, whose only goal in life has been to serve his interests, doing most of the time what he accuses others of doing – he plays golf to nausea, and he had condemned Obama for playing much less golf – loves, in his own words dictators like Kim of North Korea, Putin, whom he believes over his own country’s intelligence services, wanted the leader of Ukraine to announce – he was not interested and never will be in corruption per se…as comedians have highlighted, he wants a piece of the action, he is not against illegal acts, as shown by the sentence against his fake charity, abusive, false University and so much more.

If we look at the men around him, The Godfather seems to have had a better entourage – at least those we have seen there were somewhat more coherent – than the leader of the free world, who has an incredible number of associates and close aids in jail, for various enraging crimes, that seem natural if we look at the pattern of illegality that has always been the mark of an obnoxious, obvious con man, known for his excesses, the notorious bankruptcies, the fact that he does not show his tax returns – and he would be the first to flaunt it, if one, it would prove the amount of money he most likely falsely claims he has, and two, he has been honest and diligent in paying whatever he was supposed to…

America was such a shining star and role model for people in this and so many parts of the world – a close friend used to dream and imagine that one day, he would wake up to see a flag that states we have become the fifty first state or something along these lines, maybe a territory, but probably not like Puerto Rico, where the same buffoon went after the hurricane to throw paper at people and then started, as he always does, a dispute with officials from the island…

Now we are in a position where we can be proud that we do not have such a creature as leader, instead, our very own Johannis (for all the criticism and dubious jokes they make on his supposed muteness and passivity, which is imposed by the constitution and the critics are just exaggerating and do not see the difference) is like Zeus or Einstein when compared with baby Trump, we have a deity for leader, or a genius if we are to look at the two and put in perspective the behavior, manners, restraint, modesty, appearance, wisdom and everything else of our president and then in the opposite corner, we place an orange orangutan that is an insult to that noble animal, which acts with more composure, decorum that a cretin that keeps shouting I am the best…the call was perfect

Even the Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the other disabilities are not enough to make people, not me anyway, feel some compassion and pity for the one who had climbed on top of the world, only to moan, bitch, whine about it all the time, instead of enjoying the power with serenity, showing magnanimous grace, being a role model of modesty, courage, kindness, social intelligence, respect, gratitude, this human error is there to exemplify all the ill traits that people – his fans anyway – seem to possess even at such an advanced stage in our progress, he serves as an example that proves money and power are not the secret of happiness, for this is the archetype, the paradigm of paranoia and eternal dissatisfaction…

It is therefore evident that he should be convicted and made to leave his high office, but he is not just an accident of history, the republican senators, maybe with the exception of Mitt Romney and a few others, Insha’Allah, will absolve this criminal and continue to sustain and promote ideas that had been opposed by them, just some years back, when quite a few, that senator with a troubled personality and surely a sexual orientation he disagrees with – so the world has come so far – Lindsey Graham had said the opposite during the Clinton trial to what he maintains today, but this just proves that they are two-faced, dishonest people, who, during the 2016 campaign said that Trump should be told to go to the devil and many other such things and they are lining up to kiss his arse today, no matter what calamitous consequences will have derived from his catastrophic behavior, sick and irrecoverable personality…