For two years, it seems, there haven’t been any TV shows. But I remember when we could look forward to certain sitcoms—okay, they were fun! Y’know, All,In The Family, Maude, MASH, Seinfeld, Mary Tyler Moore, Seinfeld—and dramas like the cop shows, series about doctors or lawyers…it gave the week some structure. I’m not a snob, I’ll admit to enjoying it all!
And remember the disappointment when you’d settle down to watch—and realize they were re-running a previous episode. You had seen it. Crap.
Yeah….life itself is beginning to feel like that.
F’rinstance, this BLM stuff. I really DONT remember this well as I should, I was a self absorbed teen then, and still here at home— but it’s a lot like the Long Hot Summer of 1967. Race riots: a re-run.
Metropolitan Opera, Roubdabout Theater and even my local Shakespeare Festival all determined to “reimagine the canon!” and doing exclusively plays by black playwrights, all black all the time? Been there, too, in the early 70’s. Every play in NY was about black power, black resentment , black superiority when it came to…rhythm, and sex. Okay, fine. I had a bellyful back then. A pleasant sufficiency, as I believe the polite expression goes. I am not interested. (I know, I know:I will be MADE to care!)
Black angst: a re-run.
Air pollution. Remember that? How we had to get rid of “particulate emissions’? Li’l specs o’ dust in our atmosphere, the horror! I remember Bette Midler playing Mother Earth back on one of the first Earth Days, her face artfully smudged as if with coal dust. Coal dust was a much maligned byproduct of one of our cheapest and most abundant fuels, at least it was also giving us heat and energy!
Yeah, well, now Bill Gates has a plan to manufacture some kinda dust and shoot it up into the atmosphere— because turns out, before we got rid of a lot of particulate emissions, the li’l mites were reflecting back sunlight and cooling the earth (which is why in the 70s people were worried bout a new Ice Age) . Hey Bill: Whynt we just go back to coal?
It’s just ‘nother damn re-run, shit.
I don’t wanna watch, I’ve seen it.
I’ll just read till I fall sleep.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
Hopefully it will be over soon! This too shall pass.
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Let’s pray that the vaunted short-attention-span of these folk kicks in soon….
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Well, if you say so…but lemme tell ya, if I see signs that the left is beginning to love the Confederacy again, like it used to—I am OUTTA a here!
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It’s already happening, Hyp; alternative (segregated) graduations at Columbia University this year?!
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One is allowed/ may merely think this OP in postmodern, woke AmeriKKKa. Putting these thoughts down onto paper is simply not done in polite company, plus it might micro-agress POCs.
On that happy note, it wasn’t too long ago that calling people ‘darkies’ was considered to be rude. How is ‘POC’ any more tasteful?
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“How is ‘POC’ any more tasteful?”
It isn’t any more tasteful, hermano; the whole tactic of referring to people of any ethnicity by color is divisive, passive-aggressive, and boring.
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America, it seems, is to be the world’s sacfricial lamb to pay for slavery.
More people should study etymology.
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Yeah, and you’d think slavery had just been abolished two days ago, and everybody just found out how terrible it was. Instead, any kind of racial,discrimination has been illegal for over 60 years now. We have systemic anti-racism.
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Rerun for sure, and I don’t mean the Charles Schulz character. I recall the “disability awareness” thing of the Seventies; the self-confidence it engendered was helpful to me as a late-teen/young adult. Now, it’s just another wedge to drive among us….Horrid and boring, all at once.
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