The Noise
Stop the World I Want to Get Off!
(This is more of a short personal blurt, my thoughts on a page.)
Noise. Everything at the moment is noise.
From the moment I wake up in the morning, reach for my phone or switch on the tv.
The noise in my brain of the world going insane.
This is just a taste of what was bouncing round my head this morning…
The inhumanity of what is happening every day in Gaza.
The genocide. The deliberate starvation of Palestinian people by Israel and the callous killings while people are queuing for the food they are desperately in need of.
The grotesque actions of the IDF, who get a twisted gratification out of their daily activities, whether that be sadistically picking people off in the streets; dropping a barrage of bombs into civilian areas, including schools, hospitals, mosques and the refugee camps or gleefully mocking the lives of the people they kill.
And don’t get me started on the vile piece of shit that is Netanyahu. The man is a war criminal, why is he not in fucking prison. (I know why, but it fucks me off)
People are dying and there’s nothing actually being done except “emergency meetings” and “words of condemnation” from various leaders of the world. It’s getting too late, action is needed NOW, ffs!
The shitshow in the US…
and the unbelievably rapid plummet into authoritarianism, fascism and deep dark depravity.
That a convicted felon is leading a superpower like the US in the first place is a very unfunny joke. For six months there has been one despicable thing after another. There is so much noise that there’s no respite from it. And it’s not just Trump. It’s the whole rancid administration. There’s lie after lie, no accountability, and the complete lack of empathy or compassion about anything.
There’s the constant shadow of Project 2025 and The Heritage Foundation pulling the strings behind the curtain (I’ll go into that in more detail at a later date, although there is a lot of information out there about both if you want to find out more). Project 2025, the plan to basically demolish the current US political system and reshape it into one where the President is the “all powerful” head of state, is currently 46% complete, and is pretty much on schedule, if not a bit ahead. The majority of the shady and just downright abhorrent things happening in the States since Trump took office have come from this plan. None of this is “great”.
Meanwhile, in the UK
we have 80 year old protestors being arrested because they’re supporting a free Palestine and condemning the genocide in Gaza. All because Labour has proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation (fuck sake, really?!), but won’t stop sending arms to Israel, the country which is committing the fucking genocide that people are quite rightfully protesting against. And round and round we go. There’s no real action from the Government, ‘emergency meetings’ aren’t going to cut it, it’s too little, too late.
Then we have the usual right-wing not-rights who are practically rabid because of ‘the boats’ and the hotels that house the people from ‘the boats’. Of course they’ll just say they’re ‘concerned citizens’.
Certain political groups seem to be making it their current objective to incite as much hate and divisiveness as they can over this. It’s also attracting the attention of other right-wing groups who just want to join in the mêlée and create merry hell throughout the country. Are we about to see another summer of riots? God, I bloody hope not.
Other concerns about where we are headed as a country start crowding in, as it just feels like everything is getting pushed further & further right. Things that wouldn’t have been acceptable a few years ago, are becoming more so. There’s an apparent lack of empathy and human decency among certain quarters and that is rather disturbing. This actually troubles me more often than not. How have we grown into a society where empathy and giving a damn is considered a weakness or ‘woke’?
Overload…
Looking at this now, when it’s written down, it doesn’t seem like a lot, but when this is bombarding your brain and just running in cycles, then add in all of the ‘run of the mill’ anxieties and low points, it’s brain overload and a spiral is on the cards.
But today I did something different.
Today I decided to write. Blasting some music while typing out the noise in my brain. That might sound counterproductive, focusing on the noise to quieten it, but it has helped. I’ve emptied my head onto a page while something that always helps keep me sane plays away in the background. It’s been a kind of therapy.
So yes, the noise in my brain has quietened, at least for now. I know it’ll be back, it always comes back.
But maybe, if I’ve now found this outlet, it may be a bit more bearable.
NB
(Thank you for being somewhat of an online therapy session!)
’Til the next ‘Tale’…