Riohv, "Sun Shadow"

It was a great weekend to be away from the Internet.

If you were on social media this weekend I’m sorry, and I hope whoever is holding your family hostage and threatening to hurt them unless you look at Facebook lets them go soon, because I can’t imagine any other reason you would be on social media this weekend. If you were smart enough to avoid it, here’s what you missed: Everyone is terrible, even the good people, and there aren’t any good people anymore. Everybody knows for sure what happened in the election and how things would have been different if their preferred alternative had occurred and what we need to do next to fix everything and how whatever you have decided to do next is not only wrong but a deliberate insult to the people who are really suffering, a group of which you are certainly not a member. It is a lot like Yeats’ “Second Coming” except even those who lack all conviction are issuing numbered threads about how their conviction is lacking, which other people are simply retweeting with the word “Thread.” I get that we live in a world where the maxim is now “Why think something unless you’re going to say it?” but is it too much to ask that you press pause for a week on the saying part and then maybe reflect on whether or not those thoughts really need to be shared? Hahaha, just kidding, I know your thoughts need to be shared. Otherwise how will people know how right you are and, more importantly, how incorrect everyone else is?

Anyway, here’s music. Enjoy.