As The New Year Gets Underway

[poliphilo]

 I told myself I'd try and finish A La Recherche de Temps Perdus by the end of 2025. As it is I'm nearing the end of volume 2 with 5 more to go.....

I've thought of doing a retrospective of the past year, but I can never remember when things happened and can't be bothered to find out. I would have written that the most significant event of the year was the release of the podcast, The Telepathy Tapes- but I checked and found this actually happened in 2024.....

I have sometimes made New Year resolutions, but I never keep them so this year I shan't....

Two things I've had enough of and will do my best to avoid in future:

1. Political commentary/satire that is nothing but insults and name-calling. It's just so playground. 

2. Fictions that maintain the fallacy that problems can be solved by killing people

Comments

[paserbyp]

1. Agreed that sarcasm just aesopian language by slaves.

2. Putin must die!

[poliphilo]

Everyone dies in the end....

[paserbyp]

True, but if Hitler dies before 1933 maybe history will take another turn? So, he must die ASAP.

[poliphilo]

Who knows what would have happened if Hitler had died in the thirties. My suspicion is that someone else would have carried that particular torch.....

[paserbyp]

Agreed that everything can happens, but it will be differently, maybe better or maybe worst.