Sometimes, I just sit and stare at the screen expectantly, waiting for words to flow out onto it and see what they do. It isn’t writer’s block. It’s that there’s so much going on in the world that it can be debilitating.

And a lot of it is bullshit.

The trouble is sifting through all of it to find the little truths that keep the world going. In childhood, the news was something that was deemed trustworthy though maybe it wasn’t as much as it was thought of. There’s so much misinformation out there these days, and it doesn’t look like it will stop anytime soon.

That’s why I stick to science, I suppose, and a lot has been happening in science, but even who funds the studies that give us the science is called into question at times.

I’ve had a feeling that we humans are on the brink of something for the last year or so, and everything feels a bit… unsettled. It’s as if one day the world society as we know it will break. We have the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which is pretty simple and straightforward – sovereignty. Hamas and Israel are at it again, but this time the civilians on both sides are getting killed much more frequently. Around here, the Israel/Hamas conflict is polarizing, as I imagine it is elsewhere.

To me, I just look at what is going on. Russia’s trying to claim more territory and using force to do it, we say it’s bad so the Russians are naughty. Israel has been claiming more Palestinian land, but they’re not naughty because Hamas is naughty because Hamas… well, I don’t even know what Hamas is trying to do but it’s pretty clear that they’re not doing it for land. So I don’t know. Israel has been settling more and more land while the remaining Palestinians are fish in a barrel for automatic weapons. I’m not siding with Hamas or Israel. I’m just saying what I see.

While all of that is going on, Venezuela and Guyana are talking about their borders with the overture of war which, this past week, Maduro said was going to stay peaceful. Oil is involved, Guyana got a crappy deal with Exxon but it’s better than what they had while Venezuela remains under sanctions and… well, the Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister is wandering around and hoping for a windfall out of it all, since he’s been promising the citizenry something for about 8 years.

China and Taiwan, and so on.

It’s all messy, and a lot of what we see about all these things is someone’s narrative.

I’m just waiting for Daenerys Targaryen to show up and start burning cities down somewhere.