Dear People of the Future -
07/13/2022
I am writing this around 2:30 AM, on Wednesday, July 13th 2022.
I had a cute post I wanted to write, an interesting idea that ties together the Thor post and the Everything’s Made Up post. But I am in bad shape tonight.
There’s been a heatwave the last few weeks. I suspect you are very used to brutally hot summers in the future, and it’s been strange to live through watching the summers grow worse.
I have a small house, and half of it is a finished basement. A few weeks ago, my folks helped pay to get central AC installed, because the previous owners had central heating but no central air, and I’ve been living with window unit ACs for a few years now, and absolutely can’t afford the thousands of dollars for a air conditioner unit on my own. Unfortunately, with the heatwave the new AC keeps the basement nice and cool and upstairs gets unpleasantly warm.
So I’ve been camped out downstairs for almost three weeks, living on the game room couch.
Tonight, after installing new air vents for the basement that I can open and close, I finally tried to move upstairs for an extended period of time.
After about 5 hours, the living room had grown only hotter, and I finally gave up and retreated to the basement.
I’ve got some kind of chest/respiratory problem, which might be long covid related and is maybe being made worse by living under a dry AC vent. I don’t have health insurance, because I didn’t do all of my paperwork quite right and the state of Missouri took it away. I’m trying to get it back, but I have no faith that this state run by hateful assholes will eventually do the right thing.
All of this has caused my Depression to spiral, despite having some really good things happen in my life this week.
I am so tired, and sick, and weak, and sad, and angry.
And I know I’m far from alone, and what’s absolutely infuriating is it doesn’t have to be like this. We could have a functioning country that cares about its inhabitants and wants us all to survive and we fucking don’t.
If you’re looking back at the 21st century, and 20th, and 19th, and 18th, and you’re wondering “God, what the fuck was wrong with them? Why couldn’t they get their shit together?”, the answer is racism. Racist white people would rather their neighbors and loved ones die horribly than anything good happen to non-white people. That’s it, that’s the whole story of Why The USA Can’t Get Their Shit Together, right there.
Maybe you live in a future where this is better. I fucking hope so, but I’m not optimistic. But then, these are not optimistic times.
Sorry for the giant downer, People of the Future. I am very tired, and sad, and angry.
Thank you for reading, I really do appreciate it, from the past.
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