First Blog 2021 2020 The Great Reveal
I wish all my readers a more successful year than 2020 was allowed to be… We have all learned many things: and must now put them to use.
It was also a year of many firsts, not only for me, but for almost everyone on the planet… for there are few places that have not been impacted by Covid-19. The most important first, for those of us who live in the more competitive parts, of global societies: it was the great reveal… All debt and no savings in pursuit of the financialised grail, left us [at too many National levels] high and dry, as public health systems buckled: under the unplanned for assault by nature, at its most vindictive.
And we are still no more than half way through this catastrophe. Financial systems fall apart due to the vanishing of hundreds of millions of marginal customers; yet stock markets plunge upwards at multiples more reminiscent of Japan 1980’s that anything seriously good… The promise of a sluice way of free money to the fortunate… and the horror of Depression for the GiG workers and the broad service sector… until?
So for all of us it this was the first of Firsts: the fundamental ineptitude and incompetence of the historical governance struktures. They had grown fat on decades of good living; that had corroded old rules and agreements: with the result that an outcome is in play that will change all our existences, in this simulation model we are entering… For never was Dylan more spot on with “The Times They are a Changing”.
I think of it as a SciFi year… I write Sci Fi crime adventure action stories against a backdrop that includes an idea called Basic Pay; or Universal Basic Income: as some others call it… Basic Pay is an idea that percolates, especially, in the footnote episodes in the series called The Jonker Memorandum. I took Asimov and Co’s “Credits”: and gave them some economic substance. I was writing what I believed to be fiction… : And here it is in real life … Wow!
Hence: SciFi year.
The closing argument over the two thousand dollars was deeply satisfying… Now we have to convince those converts how it can be paid for.
So with the change of guard immanent at the [so-called] White House… recently the scene of action more reminiscent of 1789 than 2021… The Global chess board is once again in play after a four-year delay… and many players have shown their hands … What hand will the former Senator from the tax haven First State of Delaware play… And let me say that this bloggist wishes him a long life to repair that which needs repair…
To close
This, shorter than standard for a blog of mine [new year’s resolution. After 21 months of writing 22 syllable poems every day… I am going to keep blogs to 500 words and so this is already too long.
Earlier above I spoke of nature at its most vindictive… For me nature was also a great reveal this past year; when first, huge parts of Siberia caught fire: and then later maybe somewhere else in Siberia, a 40,000-year-old Rhino was apparently un permafrosted.
Now, by way of relevant meaningful digression; some forty years ago this bloggist was escorted by security from the great hall at the university in what was then then not yet called Zimbabwe in 1979…
My crime, from the audience perspective … university students… was to point out, that trustable reports suggested that while the Soviet Union had some impressive space achievements they did not
somehow have the technology to dig through some sixty metres of permafrost to get the oil beneath it… So I gave them ten years before they imploded… The crowd were enraged and with chairs flying I left… The rest is history.
Now some mere four decades later… frozen territory that stood the test of time for forty thousand years has melted sufficient for such a reveal: as a forty-thousand-year old creature.
So if the planet is melting so much that Siberia is not only melting; but catching fire [along with other [places that have never known fire]. Then what if the long frozen highlands of Tibet, being mined for water by the occupiers of Tibet; and sent through tunnels north: inadvertently moved some ancient virus, that had on completion of Gaia’s last hit job been deep frozen… forty millennia back.
That’s the quick version … For your further entertainment here is a cluster of 22 syllable poems to close off on that topic
WhatIf: Fake News alert
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End of Invented News Story folks
Be well and safe until next we pass thru. Loves ya all
Nicholas