London calling

This reminds me of The Lathe of Heaven, where Dr. Haber keeps having George dream things to make the world a "better" place and what he gets is all subtly or overtly wrong, and when he tries to fix that it gets worse, and all the time he gets richer and his office gets larger.

Dear America, fuck you and your long history of ill-considered foreign interventions. There are ideals and ideas that make my stolen country great, but they so rarely get put into practice, it seems. I mean, yes, I understand personal agency; people choose individual reactions, etc. But the focus on that individual will is in some ways a very American one, blinkered by our national myths. Social forces shape us all, and we are culpable for the meddling we do.

And now for more escalations and a growing sense of righteousness. Those Bad People And Their Bad Religion, as though we haven't been doing the same thing on a wider scale for years. Perhaps World War III will not be a nuclear apocalypse, as all of us who grew up in the Cold War were led to think. Perhaps it will be a global guerilla war of ambush and deception and rhetoric and lies. Perhaps it has already started.

Love to all in London. My thoughts are with you.