\nAw man planting that lavender under the window next to my sittin’ chair was such a good idea.
Like in general this year in Karafuto has been finally realizing things I had intended for a while and determining they were in fact correct ideal ideas all the while.
This has honestly been a lot of the last part of my life in general for me. Like the 2010s was \u2013 well first, coming to Portlandia-era Portland, which was a perfect realization of if the ‘90s had just kept getting better and look the whole culture sees it’s great and they’ll follow our lead and change yay!
But then the national culture turning worse, and okay Portland was a refuge though but then increasingly it wasn’t and and and\u2026
And it getting so bad but what rescued me was \u2013 not a fluke, this is actually a defining element of my self-identity \u2013 my knowledge of American cultural history, I was like “NO successful cultural turn ever looked like this, but some failed ones kinda did before they backfired proportionally\u2014”
But I was like “but I don’t see the escape mechanism, if Hillary fucking Clinton gets the levers of federal administrative control this stuff’ll get institutionally locked in but how would you pivot to preempt it, you’d basically have to dump the post-Reagan legacy and do Sailer Strategy and kinda recover some of that '80s vim but realize the path forward was the Wall Street crude bros not the Christians, but it’s hopeless the Republicans don’t have anyone lined up to pivot in time\u2026
\u2026and then like a month later the incarnated spirit of the 1980s came down an escalator and I was like "oh”. Come the moment, come the man.
And yeah, that went basically exactly how I expected, and I was like “WOW, I do know this stuff! But\u2026 what do I even get for it. Hmm, much to ponder\u2026”
But then I was struck by a falling star and reborn perfected, so there’s my answer and\u2026 okay?
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