Do you feel what I feel? Bittering distress?

We’re in 2025 and …And Justice For All, Metallica’s banger from 1988, feels as urgent as it has when I first heard it. I’m now “a few” years older, but just as angry at the world as I’ve been back then. Even more so. Back in the day a fading cold war posed a daily threat of obliteration. Real or fear mongering - it didn’t matter. The fear was real and present, just like proxy wars, environmental destruction, pollution, violence in the name of “god” or some other illusion, terror, and the horror of greed. Blatant injustice, misery, misogyny, racism, idiocy, treason, grifting, you name it. All this shit is meant to stay. People want slick suit, strong-arm or sycophant “leaders”. They vote with their dicks or their purse. Or because they are naives, easy to fool, or simply brain dead imbeciles who fall for stuff fed to them on Social Media platforms, run by freaking brain dead billionaire bigots.

Until voting becomes anything but a choice.

“Truths to you are lies to me”

And the King Of Liars now is in charge of a huge nuclear arsenal, rubbing the dicks of the King Of Deceit (who also has a nuclear arsenal) and the King Of Oppression (who of course also has a nuclear arsenal). The three of them gather around them armies of despicable creeps, burglars, suckers, cowards, fuckwits, psychopaths, pedophiles, and murderers to fulfill their manic dreams of world domination. What could possibly go wrong? They pull up a faux-Shakespearian comedy (which isn’t funny) to deflect from what they are really after: more money, power, and more people killed in their name. It’s out in the open, in the Eye Of The Beholder: “Penetrate the smokescreen I see through the selfish lies.” At the same time, to quote one of their “philosophers” they “flood the zone with shit”, so that said smokescreen is brown, ugly, and smelly. We turn away. We obey. We don’t want anything to do with that. We’re paralyzed.

So they strive and continue with their competition to become the world’s worst tyrant. Stalin, Hitler, Mao - all losers compared to these guys, who want to kill more people, imprison more people, starve more people, enslave more people than the old stiffs would have. It’s still some way to go, but the pissing contest is on.

What could possibly go wrong? Let’s fuddle about on the great chessboard and see what happens. Ukraine, Taiwan, Greenland, Panama, Canada, Tibet, Georgia - “The Shortest Straw has been pulled for you.”

I am so motherfucking angry - although - or because - I have love in my life, people I care for, a decent job, housing, all that. There’s great music and so much other stuff in the world that I want to explore. But I’m struggling with that anger imposed on me by people who are unfortunately driven by addiction to power, greed, fear, lies, envy, selfishness, or the joy of seeing others suffer. I am appalled by the blatant display of ignorance, the sheer inhumane evil, and the asslickers who feel they can cut themselves a deal by bathing in the manure of the ruling class.

“The Frayed Ends Of Sanity, hear them calling me”