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2024: The Year of Aspirational Stupidity
In 2024 people finally were fed up and voted out everybody for other everybodys who, still, promised to make your life worse by making theirs better, because though we’ve lost hope we are still aspirational.
Aspiration is why we still get out of bed in the morning and stumble to the kitchen and make coffee and then face the day.
Aspiration is what makes a somewhat decent person vote for someone who says horrible things but feels your pain.
Aspiration is a year that laid bare the idea that power corrupts and it doesn’t need to be absolute but power absolutely corrupts stupidly. Or lazily. Though any power that appears lazy comes with a lot of enablers. The cult of the stupid mixed with aspiration is the most dangerous reality we have right now.
We aspired despite the Ukraine and Gaza/Lebanon and Sudan and Haiti and everywhere else blood spills because the stupid believe what they want to believe even if that means coloring the sky red with the blood of those whose reality makes yours inconvenient.
The world’s wealthiest man has proven that he is simply needy and spends time either alone (he is the father of 11!) or in the company of the world’s most successful grifter, and he seems like a rather pathetic soul who can’t believe that people don’t respect him even though he’s…
