that good shit
a friend claims to be off (cursing out smart phones, facebook and chat gpt as he goes), horsemouth does hope he means just off temporarily. he was surprised to see him on it (tbh). he always thought he was much too cool for it. (unlike horsemouth who is just a shallow confirmation monkey). that said it has been a great joy of good quality shit - photographs, poetry, music - putting all the smart people horsemouth knows to shame.
(he also cursed out giorgio agamben's stanzas but horsemouth knows nothing about that).
now if his friend is genuinely going off-line then horsemouth will (probably) escape charges of plagiarism for this. (and if not his friend will probably keep posting that good shit).
horsemouth is relieved to see that someone else has joined him in the necessary work of appreciation.
so much trouble in the world
it will take horsemouth a while to think this through (by which time we will be on to the next bit of craziness). the return of big power politics (as if they ever really went away). the end of rules based orders (or at least their pious invocation). europe cut adrift and staggering to its feet. the partition of ukraine (by russia and the US).
witness jD vance at a recent european security conference indulging in a little light bullying and asking the important question 'does donald j. trump look like a bitch to you?' 'no. of course not. zut alors.' 'then why did you try to fuck him?'
in some ways it is like the collapse of the soviet union. something that was literally unthinkable until it happened (but had also been the end point of the west's strategy the entire time). europe has talked about american isolationism and exceptionalism (but now it is here).
horsemouth has been overthinking the retrofit in anticipation of the mancom on wednesday.
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