We’ve reached some kind of milestone where satire and reality have converged to a single line. Also, the cover photo of a bunch of smiling professionals is the real chef’s kiss.
“You hear this nonsense such as, ‘people don’t want to work anymore,’” said Schweitzer while puffing on his pipe. “Can you blame them? When boomers were young, they could pay for college flipping burgers, buy a house on a single salary, and retire with a pension. Now people can’t afford to even rent. The average American is being crushed under a debt burden with no prospect of relief. Our political system is breaking down, and we’re headed toward climate disaster. It’s only natural for people to be walking around secretly wishing a piano would fall on them.”
Wtf I thought this was supposed to be a satire article.
Ever notice that the only people who relentlessly seek out immortality are the absurdly wealthy who already live a life of the entire world being at their beck and call for every whim?
The rest of us get tired of licking the shoe leather and are all like, “It’s my time? Phew! Finally!”
My first thought wasn’t that this was an onion article. My thought was that “this could be an onion article”… ie I assumed it wasn’t satire at first. Because that’s the world we live in since 2016.
Getting a strong antivax vibe from this comment even though I have no clue what you’re talking about. Care to explain enhanced interrogation for me please?
I don’t know the exact connection to tbe APA (they probably made a statement?), but “enhanced interrogation techniques” is what the Bush 2 administration called the torture they used on prisoners during the War on Terror & Iraq War.
Anyway, Routine by Steven Wilson and Losing It by Rush are two big candidates. Remove all sharp objects from the immediate vicinity before you listen to them.
Actually, forget that. Songs about naval disasters (The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot, At the Harbor by Renaissance, The Wreck of the Hesperus by Procol Harum) are somber in tone but won't make you feel despondent afterward. They're like rye bread... a little rough and dark, but hearty and filling and ultimately cleansing in the end.
Check out this song by them but feel free to listen to their entire albums. Start with Land Animal, Say So, or You Know What They Mean if you like the above song.
The entirety of Let It Come Down by Spiritualized. It’s an album all about the apathy, misery, bliss and beauty that accompanies heroin addiction. It’s painfully beautiful music.
Going through cancer treatment the last couple of years, doctors often asked me if I was feeling suicidal, I never was, but this would have been a correct answer most days.
It is very real but journalism hasn’t quite evolved to state facts yet. They’re still at the gaslighting stage of making us think our unhappiness is the result of our own poor choices and shortcomings, and that everyone else is happy except for us.
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