horsemouth's washing is on the line since yesterday evening (he wants to get the shorts dried before the heat comes on this afternoon). yesterday evening (after he'd watched a documentary on the moody blues) he went for a wander round. thereafter he sat and drank a bottle of beer and watched quatermass 2 (british government aids and abets alien invasion by giant slime moulds).
he spent some time critiquing an illustration by bob moran (the good reset he calls it).
bob is where horsemouth once was in a paroxysm of rage against the system except his proximate causes are different, his utopia is one of naturally controlled CO2 levels (good luck with that), functioning immune systems (well who could argue with that) and buried lockdown advice (stay home), no wind turbines, lots of children but shrinking cities. bob wants us to be ok with risk and all this is built on the buried corpses of globalists. .
a lot of people (and not just giorgio agamben) see the extension of government power over people during the pandemic as a bad thing. their liberties were curtailed and the simplest argument against it was not to deny the efficacy of the measures but to deny that they were necessary at all ('it's just a cold. it only kills old people. what's all the fuss about? the state is only doing it because it wants to extend its power.').
in this they have been helped by confused and inconsistent government explanations and the government's rapid rowing back from these restrictions as soon as they could.
horsemouth views the british state as only accidentally fighting covid - it could so easily have ended up adopting the herd immunity/ laissez faire/ let rip US strategy producing even higher death tolls than the ones we achieved. without cummings (curiously enough) they didn't have the bottle to persist in unpopular measures and were soon driving us (coughing and spluttering) back onto the tube trains and back to work.
all of this anti-vaxing and anti-lockdown rhetoric dovetails neatly into an idea that the real enemy are globalists - people who argue for global solutions to global problems - people who now argue for decarbonisation and wind turbines. it is them who are driving up heating bills as part of their green agenda when what we really need are more nuclear power stations, more coal fired power stations, more oil etc. (but carefully out of shot).
the globalists are viewed as planning a great reset to surveillance capitalism. of course they may as well be venusian slime moulds or V style reptiles. the point of these themes in 60ies science fiction is not to imply that the rich are no longer human (really) but that they are badly behaved, it is a kind of satire. the modern variety it is a bit less clear that it is satire.
now horsemouth is himself guilty of similar thinking - he hates capitalists and neo-liberals people who seem to argue for free markets but are in fact engaged in scurfing up as much state subsidy as can possibly be achieved. horsemouth blames the rich but beyond them the whole capitalist system.
like the jehovah's witness pictures of the peaceful kingdom the picture of the good reset is initially appealing - it is only on closer examination that the problems with it appear. there is this appeal to the natural as if it were an uncomplicated good (plague is natural counters horsemouth).
horsemouth types this in his torn b-boy t-shirt (that's got to go - horsemouth has enough clothing that he can get rid of the torn stuff) and jeans. horsemouth is no longer a boy (mind you he has also never worked for portuguese social security as one of his other t-shirts claims). on the washing line are his shorts, several t-shirts and a few pairs of socks.
horsemouth is an anti-social son of a bitch. he could have been off camping. he should have gone down to a gig in south london. he should have gone out to a friend's birthday earlier in the week. he could even have gone out to ronnie scott's and listened to jazz (but no).
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