Snot Flickerman

I think we’ve been ruined by Prestige Television and you’re honestly just expecting too much from it.

Where both episodes failed for me simply was lack of any tension and feelings of horror. The original films were defined by a feeling of the aliens being completely inescapable and being stuck in tight confined spaces without much hope of escape. The first one everyone stuck on the Nostromo, the second being stuck in an abandoned planetary settlement, third inside an inescapable prison… The rest, well, that’s where we begin to lose that sense to begin with.

I mean, I kind of expected it to fail on horror fronts due to it being on earth. Lots of places to escape to.

I still found it pretty fun, despite failing that, but maybe I just went in with lower expectations.

I only wish it were normal.

As awful as we treat animals, we humans treat plant life with even less care. Many of us have empathy for animals because they look like us, they have a face, they have voices.

Plants and fungii are in many ways alien to us, and since they don’t have a nervous system or brain, the default is to believe that it’s more ethically or morally okay to harm them than animals.

I am not so sure I agree. To be clear, I am pro-veganism although my personal path to veganism became more difficult due to cancer and increased protein requirements due to that. However, I still think it’s questionable that we consider plant-life as somehow lesser-than, especially when the destruction of plant-life contributes to the destruction of many species that rely on said plant-life. We’re quickly destroying the last vestiges of contiguous forests of any type on the planet. In the US we were lucky to avoid the sell-off of many public lands, but I’m sure they won’t stop trying to make that happen. The Amazon rain forest dwindles by the day from illegal logging.

I don’t know, I think about it a lot sometimes. I know I have no proof for it, but sometimes I worry the human definitions for things like cognition and consciousness may be far too narrow and defined by our own experience and those like us, and perhaps we are really missing the forest for the trees (pun intended).

I am no good with plants, I have a black thumb, not a green thumb, but I definitely prefer diverse native plants over monoculture of grass and imported plants that look pretty.

Look I haven’t been sleeping well for several weeks now, I’m exhausted and sorry for this odd ramble.

If only. Democrats are historically milquetoast in response to Republicans.

This charade has been going on for 40-some years or more. At least since the likes of Reagan and Gingrich.

1. The court could go out of their way to rule on the case and make sure it only applied to Trump and only in this instance.

2. Just because the Democrats are suddenly given power doesn’t mean they will use it to stop fascism. Sadly, too many in the Democratic party are invested in the US Empire to just let go of how things currently work. Their long inability to act is literally why we are at the precipice of fascism fully taking over. The Democrats fell in line with Bush’s illegal war in Iraq, and they declined to do anything about the fact that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & Co. signed off on torture. We’re about to have Trump as a Dictator because we refused to do anything about leaders who were and are war criminals. People expecting Biden to do something, even if it is ruled in his favor, are waiting in false hope, imho.

EDIT: To be clear, I’d be ecstatic to be proven wrong, honestly. It would be nice to see Democrats really stand on the right side of history, not just partially or out of convenience.