So like previous years, I've more or less left this post to literally the end of the year.
However, it's really hard to use last year's post as any kind of measure or guide for this year; in part because 2024 was such a fucked up one.
Oh, where do I begin?
Well there's the ongoing genocide of brown people in the Middle East at the hands of the US Capitalist Class. Yes, it isn't just Zionism, Elitism, Racism, and so on. The (mostly) white European-descendant settler/colonial project Israel is committing genocide because the US Capitalist Class is allowing them to.
You can say it's about oil, or natural resources, or some religious prophecy, or all, or some other reasons. Ultimately it doesn't really matter. The fact that it's been happening now for over year, only underscores how powerless most other parts of the world are in putting a stop to it. Or really it's that their leaders don't really care.
Then there's the 2024 US Elections, which once again underscore that the United States isn't presently (or never really has ever been) a democracy. It's a right-wing crapitalist system designed to transfer wealth and power up to a small group of rich and powerful people, corporations, and other entities. And in doing so, it's slowly destroying everyone and everything around it, including ultimately itself.
You had two right-wing 'brands' that essentially exist to create artificial divisions between the majority of people, while both doing exactly the same role for the ruling class - managing their interests.
Kind of how cancer operates inside the body?
I do have a creeping suspicion that 2025 will be a year of full economic
collapse of the United States. And it's hard to shake the feeling that
I suspect the US Capitalist Class will use the collapse to finally
sweep away the very system that allows them to flourish, and replace it
with a more fascist one.
That this would mean game over for the planet is pretty obvious to me, but hey what do I know.
2024 is the hottest year on record. Love that growth mindset!
I did write another album of music. Oddly enough I didn't leave all to December. I actually finished most of the writing by the end of October. Good to have some pacing in finally. Didn't make much progress in recording either there, or with my other project, and probably for all the same reasons as last year. Though, I do have a plan to solve that - more to follow.
It's been a year since my Father was committed to a care facility. Don't know if I have fully felt the effects of that, despite the fact that the reasons for his going there largely rendered him more or less gone before ... well. I still have some more to write about that, what occurred after, and some things I learned about certain family members.
Nothing much changed at work. I got older, did more work that my employer deserved and still got what amounted to a few t-shirts worth of a pay increase. I guess I should be thankful for being useful enough at this point in my career. The project that I've been on has also gotten a year older and it too hasn't seemed to go anywhere (that I point out that a whole year's worth of budget could've been better spent training people; but alas that doesn't sit will with self-proclaimed 'leaders).
The Mrs. and I has sex more often. Same as last year.
As far as the family goes, there was a great milestone. My eldest graduated from high school. It really was long road for him. He's had many challenges and obstacles, but he stuck it out and finished with honors.
Now it's a case of him figuring out what he wants to do with his life. That may take some time, but if there's one thing I learned, is that people have to come around in their own time to really understand themselves and their paths in life.
I look older and uglier. But in a weird way - knowing that I'm not attractive to anyone means I don't really have to worry about how others truly view me. That doesn't mean I have to tolerate bigoted and racist and misandry behavior (like I did at the local grocery store today). While I don't really care how people treat me, I do care how they treat other family members. And all those microaggressions aren't acceptable.
Perhaps rather than save it all to the end of 2025, I'll do some more frequent updates. Or better still, some of what I'm working on will find itself into the public's ears and minds. We'll see.
