I still have a three novel series that would be an homage to Stieg Larsson rolling around in my mind. But, for the time being, I’m focusing on this scifi dramedy I’m currently working on.
I just can’t, apparently, focus on more than on novel at a time for time being, so, I’m focusing on the easier to write novel at the moment
But once that’s done, I’m going to return to the thriller series I’ve been working on. But it won’t be six novels, it’ll just be three. Which, I guess, I what it should have been all along. Sigh.
Here’s a premise for a movie. What if an ASI pops out, takes over all of our nuclear weapons…but we can’t seem to communicate with it in any traditional manner? Maybe it talks only in music videos or something.
Ok, a history lesson. The case could be made that the American Civil War started because the slave holders of the South felt that the free-labor North was sufficiently ascendant that they had no choice but to leave the Union.
And, now, we face a similar situation between the slumbering Blues and the hyperbonkers MAGA. The Blues are still pretty laid back, despite how insane MAGA has become after the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk. And, what’s more, MAGA is politically ascendant — they have no reason to resort to political violence to get what they want.
If MAGA just cools their heels for a few years, the United States will become Trumplandia and that will be that. I would even go so far as to say they don’t even have to fuck with free-and-fair elections. The macro trends of the United States point towards us becoming an autocratic, tyrannical state within a decade of our own volition.
But MAGA is fucking greedy and so it’s very possible that they will fuck with the 2026 and or the 2028 elections to the point that Blues grow enraged. Now, I have my doubts about a “National Divorce” started by Blues. A revolution, however, I could see happening.
Combine pissed off Blues with astonishing income inequality and the usual dynamics of a center-Left revolution could very well come into play. Then the two sides bomb each other into oblivion and we take 40 or more years to pull ourselves out of the rubble of what used to be the USA.
And, in the meantime, the world will move on — probably WW3 will start — and maybe, just maybe, once everything is sorted out in about 20 years, humans might collectively work on things like global climate change.
But that is obviously the most optimistic of outcomes. It could be, lulz, MAGA wins and the US, have many millions of dead, turns into a MAGA version of Iran.
I think all of us need to calm the fuck down. There’s not going to be a civil war. There’s not going to be a revolution. At least, not anytime soon.
As I keep saying, I could see one happening in 2026 or 2028 if Trump really aggressively fucked with the elections. That’s the kind of thing that would piss Blues off enough that there might be a civil war or revolution on their part.
But, really, I think all this talk of civil war — which, honestly, I don’t know how much is genuine and how much is produced by Russian bots — says more about the hysterical nature of MAGA than anything else. MAGA is so overwrought in their rhetoric these days that they grasp for the absolute worst thing they can think of, which just happens to be a civil war.
As it stands, MAGA has absolutely no reason to start a civil war. They, as a political movement, are ascendant and, lulz, why would they want to risk losing a civil war? So, really, all this civil war talk on the part of MAGA is more about them daydreaming about being able to murder people like me in cold blood without any legal ramifications.
That’s it — MAGA talks about civil war because they want to murder center-Left people without having to go to prison.
But, as of right now, at least, Blues, who would actually start a civil war in self-defense, seem willing to take the continued abuse by MAGA cocksuckers. When Blues decide they’ve had enough and fight fire with fire, THEN we have a civil war or revolution.
To say it would be horrible is an understatement. There might be a race war in the South. Both sides would use WMD. Many millions of people would die in some potentially horrific ways.
Hopefully, neither Reds nor Blues will have any reason to actually go for each other’s throats in the real world. Hopefully.
I have been using AI to craft an outline for the second draft of this scifi dramedy I’ve been working on. I’ve vowed to myself not to use AI to do anything beyond this for the second draft.
After I have a solid second draft outline, everything is going to be just me.
I think I may read and watch other people’s stuff some more before I sit down and actually write out extended scene summaries. I also want to study structural stuff a little bit more as well.
But, in general, I think I may have stumbled across a vision for the second draft. The only issue is that the novel kind of turns into a techno-thriller in the second half, which is not at all what my original vision was.
And, yet, I get it. I understand why the AIs I’ve been working with went in that direction. It makes sense in the context of the directives I gave it. Now, I just need to brood and hope my lingering teeth issues don’t grow so dire that I’m too distracted to do anything until it gets fixed.
A MAGA-type who is one of the few remaining MAGA Facebook friends I have called me a “sad individual” for not engaging his occasional stray comment on my anti-MAGA rants.
As I told him in my response — I don’t engage him because I like him. If I didn’t like him, I would engage him and then we would inevitable start screaming at each other and one of us would unfriend the other.
So, there you go.
He was also upset that I hadn’t “done anything for my fellow man.”
This was, I have to say, kind of stings. I’m kind of too poor to do anything for “my fellow man.” If I had money, then, yeah, I would donate to the poor or something. In fact, I would probably be something of a patron of the arts if I had more than just enough money to feed myself.
It’s clear that after the tragic death of Charlie Kirk we’ve crossed a political Rubicon. MAGA doesn’t care about the motives of the murderer and simply see the murder as an excuse to rile themselves up against people like me.
As I’ve written before, at the present moment, it appears if we have a civil war or revolution it will happen because Blues are goaded into doing it by the ascendant MAGA Right. The whole thing would be tragic and horrible and I don’t want it. But, then people didn’t want the first Civil War and that happened, so…lulz?
Anyway, it’s all very sad.
We seem to be careening towards a dark and turbulent future and the only thing I can possibly see that might prevent us from either turning into a Russian-style autocracy or having a civil war / revolution would be the technological Singularity.
That’s supposed to happen around 2027, right? If that happened so soon, that would change everything. Then we would, rather than wanting to murder each other in cold blood, be thinking about how to deal with ASI or ASIs running around.
When something as potentially ominous as a tech Singularity is your only hope, you’ve got a problem.
Some fucking MAGA people need to touch grass. They are so absolutely blinded by ideology that they can’t process simple facts: the person who murdered Charlie Kirk did so because Kirk wasn’t conservative *enough.*
And, yet, here we are, with MAGA…blaming college?
I suppose it was inevitable that something, anything but what really happened would be blamed because MAGA wallows in grievance culture to the point of absurdity.
And MAGA keeps moving the goals posts. And now, with the tragic murder of Charlie Kirk, the goal posts have been moved to — civil war or nothing. Rather than admit that maybe they’re just upset and need some time to reflect on what has happened, MAGA has now staked out a bonkers position and they demand everyone follow them there.
But I will admit that I think should there ever be a civil war / revolution that the death of Charlie Kirk will be remembered as a milestone in that direction. MAGA has completely lost it’s collective fucking mind and I just don’t see how we get back to where we were.
Now, given current conditions, if there was a civil war or revolution, it would not be the MAGA Right that did it. It would be the Blues who were absolutely goaded into it in the name of self-defense. Then all the nightmare scenarios of a race war in the South, the use of WMD by both sides, all that bullshit would happen and we would spend decades, generations pointing fingers.
I don’t know what is going to ultimately happen because of the murder of Charlie Kirk, but whatever it is, it’s not good. The Far Right is now completely crazed and bonkers to the point that they’re comping at the bit to, well, murder people like me in cold blood.
That I even have to think like that is a “Not great, Bob,” type situation.
But, here we are.
The Far Right, which apparently set the agenda for all of MAGA these days, really wants a civil war. They literally want the right to murder people like me. Now, obviously, a lot of this rhetoric is just bullshit. Pure and simple bullshit. They just think of the worst possible thing that might possibly happen and they grasp for the term “civil war.”
I just don’t think the Far Right people who want a civil war really understand how bad such an event would be. There would be a race war in the South. WMD would be used — by both sides. Given the population of the Unites States — 335 million at last count — millions upon millions of people would probably die if there was a civil war.
AND, what’s more, there’s no assurance that Reds would win a civil war. In fact, if push comes to shove, Blues definitely are better positioned to win a civil war for various reasons.
So. I don’t want any violence, political or otherwise. I just want everyone to calm the fuck down.
Oh boy. Now that Paramount SkyDance is on the cusp of buying Warner Bros Discovery, my own concerns about the fate of CNN are coming to the fore. Now, first and foremost, there will be a bloodbath should CNN and CBS be combined. Many, many people will lose their jobs at both news institutions.
Bari Weiss
But there is also the issue of Free Press impresario Bari Weiss. She is probably going to be in control of the unified CBS / CNN if the deal goes through. It’s very possible that a big chunk of the news ecosystem is going to lurch into the MAGA adjacent world of the Free Press.
It could be that under the guidance of Weiss that CBS / CNN will make a go at being a lot more like FoxNews to the point that only MSBNC will be left as any sort of “normal” news channel.
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