Here is something to consider - if you really have nothing better to do with your brain space. Is the current
inexplicable political self-destruct in countries that have plucked disasters off
the didn’t-need-to-happen shelf, just part of what I think of as the Human Algorithm? Is it Cosmic Irony or is it Divine Retribution?
Here is something else to consider – as
they’d often have the same result does it really matter?
I’ve mulled over this idea before in relation to
Brexit. Struck as I was by the huge irony that the very attitude that spawned
the empire and grew it literally on the backs of African slaves should bring
Britain so very low in the form of the hideous pointless jingoism of Brexit – I
did one of my doodles a while back…
And yes, I’m not lost on the fact that as a
descendant of slaves I’m caught up in the mess but I’m not sure Cosmic Irony is
– or would be if it existed - particularly discriminating (pun intended).
The Human Algorithm is an idea I’m keen on. By it I mean
that if you look widely enough and are prepared to take in huge swathes of
history, certain things seem to balance out. And everything has its own
self-destruct or balancing mechanism. Take disposable nappies for example (stay
with me this won’t take long) If you are a lazy parent who doesn’t give a shit
about the planet (another intended pun) and you keep your kids in disposable nappies/pull-ups til
they are nearly 4 (not something that happened when mums had to use Terry nappies) – the chances of a male child growing up infertile
increase. Hence your lazy not-caring genes are limited. Get it? That is what I
mean by The Human Algorithm. Equally, fail to deal with the jingoistic,
we’re-better-than-johnny-foreigner attitude and you get – well – the
self-destruct of Brexit.
In 1066 King Harold (Earl of Essex) was killed by
William the Conqueror. Fail to deal with the nonsense of monarchy and
hereditary privilege (and snobbery and racism) and in 2020 Harry (Duke of
Sussex) ensures that by the time its bro Will’s turn to be king the monarchy will
be an obviously big bad implausible joke. Tadaaaa - The Human Algorithm.
Last weekend The
Independent published another letter of mine, this one concerning the
concerning Scott Morrison – the ridiculous idiot running Australia and still in
denial about the effects of the climate calamity even as his country literally
burns The Independent (letter Jan 12th) This was the letter if you can’t access The
Independent online.
‘Dear
Editor,
When
the evangelical Scott Morrison won a surprise election victory in Australia
with his inhumane treatment of migrants and his mocking of the climate crisis –
he joked that it was divine intervention.
I’d
like to know what the ‘divine ScoMo’ now makes of the devastating apocalyptic fires.
Amanda
Baker
And now of course Australia has floods – they just
need plagues of locusts and frogs and there can be no argument.
Then we have America – being daily degraded
by the orange idiot. Note; the US is not being dragged down in just any old way
in any old mud. America is appearing more, under Trump, like the very countries
he sneers at – the ones he referred to as ‘shitholes’. America looks like a
third world, third rate mess, headed by an ignorant bullying thug, supported by
yes men, the corrupt, the criminal, the cowardly and the fawning. America’s credibility which you could
literally take to the bank – will pass to China. If they don’t all get the new flu.
You can only stretch ‘coincidence’ so far before it
snaps. If it’s not Divine Retribution – it is something remarkably almost
darkly, comically similar.
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And ok – I admit that this is one of my crazier
posts…