Okay, I don’t pretend to know anything about LatinX, I have no gripe with LatinX, or sexy dance - but what happened on that LIV Half-time stage was about as much LatinX, as Charlton Heston was the real Moses in the Ten Commandments.
I simply voiced my bewildered, mixed with a certain distaste, at the over the top excess, on that stage with that silly performance, during the commercials and during that days long pregame thing on ESPN. I wonder how many of those partiers were passed out or recovering by the time of kick off. Or is it like the nationally televised Russian New Year’s Gala where everyone has the same smiles, as they um-pa to the music, and they keep toasting with those glasses of champagne, but look closer at those glasses, they never drink any, it’s all pretend party.
I can’t help be visited by thoughs of: ‘For this we’ve bombed the hell out of Middle East and created a world that hates and fears us? This is the Democracy they all thump their chests over.’ ‘For this we are destroying our very own life-support system, weird humans.’
Though seems we are pretty much the same everywhere - we just got luckier than most areas in the USA - This country simply had a lot more special stuff on offer when the western world “found it”. Been frantically bustling to consume it all fast as possible - I never could wrap my head around that. Not back when Reagan supercharged this self-destruction, and certainly not now, being keenly aware of what’s unfolding upon this planet and within it’s oceans and atmosphere.
Part of me, the god’s eye view, the Xian view, as I learn more and more, I also more and more accept most all of us deserve what’s coming our way. Thousands of years worth of myths, and fairytales, and warnings, yet when it really counted, and when we really achieved a good level of comfort, and understanding about our planet than ever before, we said, so fucking what, lets party. But for a couple decades ('70s '80s) humanity had the power to make an incredibly different healthier future. But, Me First always seems to get in the way.
Rather than developing the attitudes and Earth Appreciation, that was needed to make our wonderful incredible biosphere last a little longer to benefit the Seventh Generation, we can’t even be brought to take substantive action to slow down for the sake of our own children’s generations. Bling and playing big shot is too important, weird humans.
Then I look at this wonderful little one and it’s not so easy to let go.