when political satire becomes obsolete again...

and so to matt han(d)cock recently appointed UN special envoy to help covid recovery in africa. 

in the words of tom lehrer on the moment when henry kissinger received the nobel peace prize, 

'political satire became obsolete'.

to the africans horsemouth apologises for his fellow countryman and urges them not to believe a single word he says. he's just a fucking useless clown. and he's been sent because the government of horsemouth's country doesn't give a shit about you. the world's best hope in defeating covid lies with COVAX and vaccinating as many people as possible but it's not a priority for the UK government (clearly). 

last night horsemouth watched the comic strip which was a satirical comedy show when he was a teenager (this and the young ones). it had to be prefaced by a warning about unsuitable depictions. in a way this is a measure of the success of the social changes that right thinking people wanted to see but it didn't feel like that at the time - it just felt like a solid diet of defeat (which was what in fact it was). 

horsemouth also watched the werewolf versus the vampire woman (1971) which now gives him a list of spanish paul naschy el hombre lobo horror movies to look into. 

horsemouth's labour force participation rate is now zero. he is no longer engaged in making money for the capitalists. nor engaged in enabling society to reproduce itself, sadly this means he also no longer making money for himself. 

capitalism is having recruitment problems (largely because they have de-skilled the workforce and pay them peanuts) and it is tempting to assume this is some sign of the working class refusing the rigged poker game that is work but even if it is they will soon be back at work because they need the money. except that capitalism (post crisis) will probably shake down to a lower level of activity. 

the theory in boltanski and chiapello's the new culture of capitalism is that capitalism moved away from corporate culture towards a more experimental, entrepreneurial approach to attract back the cadre of young would be managers and capitalists post 68. perhaps we will see this again, with capitalism putting on its caring sharing ecological mask and rebalancing itself so it is less blatantly exploitative. maybe.  

yesterday, purely by luck, it just happens to be pharoah sanders' birthday. horsemouth went with  greetings to saud (brother mccoy tyner) by pharoah having played harvest time earlier.  

today the photos will surface from horsemouth's friday the 13th gig in the oranges and lemons church four(?) years ago. he thanks max for inviting him to play.