Has anyone else noticed it? I mean sure, we’re meat beasts and our soft serve head goo is a bit fuzzy at the best of times, but I think you’d need to notice it by now.
It’s kind of like a zombie, you know: you blow its head off at eighteen yards with a lit mining explosive on a stick, you expect it to stay down. And then it sits up and starts dancing the fucking Charleston on its own shattered remains.
That just isn’t how cause and effect works, unless there is a great and sincere problem with our understanding of reality. And brother, have we ever got proof of a great and sincere problem with our understanding of reality.
When I quit my job, you expect that that is the end of the matter: it is quit and I am done, there’s no more to do. And yet!
And yet.
Here we are, taking the same route to the same building to repeat the exact events, down to the timeline, of quitting before.
So I ask you: what, really, is going on?
Don’t get it in your head, of course, that this is all just my personal life. The cup runneth over.
Iraq War 2 (or Gulf War 3, whatever floats your crusty piece of flotsam) is here. Russia is our enemy, again. Hell, even Korea and World War 2 are coming back around for a second try. It’s deranged, decades stacking on top of each other like a Jenga tower with clipping errors.
PKD may have been a woomeister and more than a little burned out from all the fucking drugs, but he saw the future that is the present: “The Empire never ended”.
There’s no identification of a source, no suggestion for a solution here. This is not a problem to be solved, but a fact of our current ontological landscape. All I’m doing is pointing out that even if history repeats, this is a bit absurd. Hopefully, we can learn to navigate it.
