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The Weekly Flail — August 10, 2024
Winnowing the media
OVERVIEW
It is hard to know where to start. We have irrational exuberance in America’s deformed politics and full-speed genocide in Gaza; sadly, both the previous two items are interrelated. Whether Kamala Harris can drag herself away from the dictated support of the Zionist genocide in Gaza is becoming the largest question. War is, after all, America’s primary industry, so turning away from supplying Israel to bomb schools is a very big challenge.
Trump continues to slide into some form of dementia, which means he is frequently irrational and is being allowed out only once per week. The American media, caught in an impossible situation, is ignoring this. The horserace is everything financially, so there must be two horses. The masses would lose interest in a one-horse race.
The Paris Olympics is the new COVID Olympics, which is also being ignored. That becomes difficult when winners collapse on the field from COVID. A much more important claim is that any woman in a medal competition who isn’t white must have the wrong chromosomes. Those XY chromosomes are not c simple in determining sex, but what else is new?
Climate disasters are now old news, so they are being ignored unless they kill thousands. We are so far into the hottest summer on record it is difficult to find anything new to say. Yes, that is a very bad sign, specifically in cultures dominated by corporate media. People become distracted from running up their credit card bills
We are also hearing from people demanding that birthrates go up. One of the few good things happening in our overshoot disaster is the natural decline in birthrates in better-educated and wealthier countries. We need to reduce the human population to less than three billion to stop overshooting our planet's resources.
That some people are outraged at women not having babies as their primary activity is so wrong it is hard to grasp. This death wish for our species may be an indicator of evolutionary collapse. But that is another story.
