The news

Today, once again, fundamentally nothing new has happened. All human affairs are rehearsals of the same themes played out against a mildly changing background but merely articulating the essential futility of existence and the damned nature of human kind.

In any case, the most important things that have happened today have not occurred out there in the plains of Anatolia, or the straits of Singapore or the corridors of the Pentagon but in your own soul, that vast, unexplored region itself no more studied than the dark side of a far-off planet in some distant galaxy…

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Life hits you different when you accept you are nought but a lump of decaying meat, staring at a screen atop a rock hurtling through space.