Those Who The Gods Destroy
Those whom the Gods destroy they first drive crazy, as the old saying goes. Or, defy the Gods and we will see what happens. The West, their role model, the United States; mad Trump, a tireless Iran War, a weary population, here in the Great Southern Land, where the usual suspects declared the winter just gone as the hottest on record, yeah, right, as if anyone believed the climate hysterics anymore. "We're between two ice ages," he would shrug. "It's all going to look bloody silly under 60 feet of ice." Survival. It came down to survival. The ancients stirred and had seen so many things. We come. We stay for a while. We move on. The emissaries of the Time Lords continued to prepare the ground. Everywhere he went, the local cafes, a government funded restaurant employing the disabled, at vast expense and with a welter of paperwork, the same words, or similar, came out: "The country's fucked." It was true. The traditional cheerful optimism of A...