Rackets

So, Machado has apparently said that she wants to share her Nobel Peace Prize with Donald Trump.

In 2009 Barrack Obama was given a Nobel Peace Prize. I doubt he was looking for it or expecting it.

Earlier this year on my Halloween tours, I would knowingly talk about Sir Henry Dale. Nobody knows who the hell he is but he was awarded a Nobel. “He won the Nobel competition in physiology,” I would say and then leave a momentary pause. I would hear the cognitive dissonance. “It’s not a competition. Ohhhhhh. Ha ha ha.” Cos suddenly there was someone very obviously trying to WIN the peace prize.

I am not happy with my sources on Machado saying this FYI. It might be just the usual internet noise. Even if it isn’t true, it helps me with some transitional thinking.

Growing up I consumed the idea that our leaders want the best for us. In early adulthood I started to learn, from the likes of our Willie Shakespeare, that perhaps the king is deeply human and deeply flawed. I never really examined it further even though I saw international racketeers rise and fall and rise and fall again.

I think I finally, in my middle age, can see the truth. That the lot of them are racketeers, the whole fucking thing is a massive racket, every single one of them is bent. Sure Putin. Some people make it obvious. But every single fucking one of them. If someone is building to leadership for optimistic human reasons they are attacked until they cannot stand anymore, and if they win somehow they are reputationally firebombed into extinction. The media is an arm of this, but we too are contributors because we get swept up in narratives designed to sweep us up. I’m even thinking back to people who defied the hierarchy from the top over here. One of them died for it, her son lives in exile, his wife is officially hated by all the organs of idiocy, with extra emphasis on her not being Aryan.

Right now there is no truth left. If you’re bent power you can say what you like and then just say it was AI. And hate is being normalised. So much self protection, ignorance and fear.

My tax bill leaves me broke again and having to work hard to stay here. My own fault for choosing a career outside the norm. But fuck I’ve worked hard this year, and so have we all, and here we are standing still while these people who haven’t a shred of human decency spend our money on their lifestyle.

I might have believed that the opposition to Maduro had integrity. The Nobel committee clearly did think so. They fucked up, if this news is true. Just another fucking noisemaker. Disappointing.