Merry Christmas: Dark Comedy Edition
Totalitarian comedy for totalitarian times.
This story is a quick collection of dark comedy. Sometimes it’s good to just laugh at the absurdity of what’s going on and know that the louder we laugh at the aspiring tyrants, the sooner their ambitions will go poof. And yes, there are many things we can do besides just laughing, but laughing is a healthy start.
#1. Merry Christmas, Peasants! (a parody by Justin Honse, notably written last year).
#2. A Christmas carol. “The Twelve Doses of Christmas.”
#3. Another Christmas carol. “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fascism…”
#4. A take on the future.
#5. Another take on the future.
I felt nostalgic and listened to a bunch of old underground Soviet music. It sounded strangely current—except back then, there was an ideal, a dream of wonderful, free America where people could say whatever they wanted, and the grayscale Soviet absurdity did not exist. Well, isn’t history full of irony?
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El Gato Malo has this, which is humorous and gentle
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/quarantining-the-vaccinated/comments
MMM is a puerto rico health insurer. (text below is from a guy who works there)
they mandated covid vaccination for employees.
employees sued and won exemptions.
the company responded by segregating them and moving all the unvaxxed into a separate building.
then covid broke out in the vaccinated building (but not the unvaxxed).
Right there with you Tessa...My take on orthodox/organised religion...Love the spirituality, the individual beliefs (which are probably best kept to ones self unless asked). Dislike intensely, religious DOGMA and dogmatic evangelism.
All religion has been invented by humanity, maybe or maybe not inspired by the energy that is the creation...and we really do need spiritual rituals and beliefs that give us comfort and for some ecstacy.
What I think is destructive is when religion connects itself to government...AND...funnily enough, Christianity became an 'Official' religion because a Roman Emperor in the late 300's AD, said it should be so...It was a Political move (I think it was Emperor Constantine?). Up until then it is said, 'real' Christians were treated pretty badly.
The Catholic church perpetrated the Inquisition hand in glove with governments and tortured and murdered thousands of people all in the name of Jesus Christ and God!...wonder what Jesus would have said to that??? Recently the Pope said people should get vaxxed, another example of an 'Official' religion affiliating with Gov...pretty dastardly and, it goes to show how stupid or evil some religious leaders can be and how twisted and untrustworthy organised religion can be...I'm all for holding ones own beliefs and practices as long as they hurt no one and doing so on ones own, or with others as one desires. Happy New Year everyone