No Sympathy Whatsoever
They were caught in a cruel hoax, both the perpetrators and the sinned against. They crept through the fog of time, and indeed, these days, the fog of war. We were caught betwixt and between, in the lattice of things. A cruel hoax indeed, pinned to the ether, pinned to the padded white wall, while the watchers on the watch taunted him about a lost opportunity, as if he cared, and the same insane measures they had used before reared up like horses on a battlefield, and all was lost and all was gained, and he had spent most of the previous days, since Friday, watching the Trump Biden debate; and the crawling destructiveness of it all. How indifferent to their own species. How uncaring about anything but power. How absurd their notions of indifference, when the fate of nations and civilisations hung in the balance. We're on the brink of World War III, so declared politicians and analysts and spruikers of the common good. We're on the edge of another Great Depression, so d...