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I Have Thoughts 9
This is how it’s going to work. I’m going to have thoughts. And then those thoughts will find their way here. So this is a series. Of thoughts. Published randomly. For no reason. Thank you for coming.
A giant telescope in Puerto Rico was recently decommissioned and will be destroyed. Even if you couldn’t give a flying fuck about astronomy you’ve probably seen the telescope in a movie at some point. The star gazers, from amateur to professional, are sad about it. The saddest part? The telescope was still functioning. It was not age that did it in. It was neglect.
And that part got me thinking.
Not about what we do to old things (well, maybe a bit of that, but we’ve been thinking about this for a very long time) but more about aging. And what we accept. We’ve all aged, surely, during the plague. Still, things are looking up and we seem to be about to enter the third act of this thing (though make no mistake, we are still in the second act and a lot of people continue to suffer), but it’s not done and won’t be for a while. We’re going to be wearing masks, still (unless you are the Pope and you’ve summoned… some dudes from the NBA to talk about poverty and social justice), and it’s going to take a long while before we’re “AC” (After-Corona, probably more acceptable than Post-Corona); delivering all these vaccines is going to be a logistics Olympics (this chaos in…
