Entrepreneurial Protest:

Protests remain an untapped market for aspiring entrepreneurs with an eye for violence and a sense for solid business returns. I've identified several areas within the protest model that offer profit potential and repeat sales in the current political atmosphere. Rocks and tyres at wholesale prices because every rioting mob needs a sufficient supply stones to pelt and tyres to ignite and barricade with. Let's go one level up; commerative merch, autographed posters and t shirt prints celebrating your rebellious event. Having discussed this matter it's good business to flog respective shirts of political motivation and an autographed poster of the event. Global franchise opportunities, conflict makes easy money, at the time of writing this post I witnessed a local protest outside the district magistrate courts, people protesting gender based violence demanding bail denied to the accused. They had posters, and t-shirts but no rocks or tyres. And while condoning or encouraging mob action is illegal I'd be comfortable providing at a profit the tools of a reasonable demonstration. Social unrest is not desirable and would be an unfortunate circumstance of malicious intent, my entrepreneurial enterprise disclaims to sell materials not intended for acts of violence or unrest; gardening rocks and refurbished tyres are legitimate if not coincidentally linked to scenes of unrest. I'm not supplying the fuel to burn the tyre barricades, that would be immoral and very illegal.

Another Universe

Somewhere in the Multiverse:
1. The MCU doesn't exist.
2. Elon Musk owns all social media, and it's awesome.
3. The WWE owns Disney, WrestleMania at Disneyland.
4. Cancel culture got canceled, common sense prevails.

It's a very, very, mad world:

We may not have commercial time travel or vacation destinations on planets beyond the stars but we have escapism because our reality is often terrible. When pushed for an answer to what is the most important invention gifted to humanity I say it's books. Each with immeasurable value and timeless importance. Literature style and language change may change over time and that passage of time remains documented between the pages of books. Our identity recorded for prosperity though lately it feels ignored, remember books save lives, so why are we not reading them?
Middle Earth may have the answer. I remain critical of film adaptations from literature because a great story will be stripped down to the key plot points and airbrushed with commercial sorcery to sell it to ignorant consumer markets. Filmmakers needn't buckle under the corporate pressure to push profits, I want to take an unexpected journey without corporate sponsorship or intentional product placement and despite the general limitations of the analog Era of film making current digital practices null the need for content redaction, quality storytelling in a cinema over DIY tiktok videos in my opinion. Let's shut it down, pack it in, go home to binge Netflix and gorge Uber eats where we can post temper tantrum rants online. Society boarded the express train to disaster and jammed the throttle full open, because like this is so like a video game tutorial I totally watched on tiktok with other users and we connected on a deep virtual level but not in the real world because that is so hard. Living in reality is hard?
Absolutely. It is downright brutal when you need responsibility to survive every damn day. Rising inflation, economic depreciation, long-term preparation all require your constant attention while the world around you runs squirrel mad in every direction. Shit breaks, gets sick, disappears and the unexpected all before you wipe the breakfast vommit deposit from your shoes courtesy of some random Muppet stumbling into you on the street. Reality is depressing but we continue chasing the madness of comfortable lifestyle in top billing consuming the planet resources like fat grubs waiting to pupate. I am grateful to have the 20/20 perspective of living in the third world and observing the first world. Everyone should spend time in third world shit hole countries trying to make them a better place. Impossible is democracy for dictatorship. I reside in an African country and can pity while passing judgment on those claiming global equality - you are idiots. Exploitation placed the device you're reading this from in the palm of your hand. People suffered the violation of their human rights so you can # things. Your like, share and subscribe means nothing to people suffering poverty, famine, warfare, oppression. I oppose needless technological progression, we simply don't need it. Science fiction illustrates we shall forever exploit, oppress, violate and fight against each other despite modern advancements. Peace is achieved when we come to our senses but peace remains fleeting. It remains in our nature to kill. So allow me to advocate: nothing matters. There is no rise for change, nobody wants to make the world better. Lie, cheat, steal, rape, murder, plunder and pillage our black weasely guts out. Accept the inalienable truth millennial society is utterly stupid and not worth saving. Continuing to fight the inevitable failure a small portion of the human race will keep shit together for as long as possible to steady the course of mankind without the techno crap dependence. Hopefully these posts remain for future historians to study and learn. Perhaps the third age of man has ended, perhaps we're destined for a dystopia future of Morloc and Eloy balance of life. Come what may we shall leave record telling of the events of a very, very mad world.

The forthcoming Apocalypse of South Africa:

Walking within my dream my father's father before him encountered me on my path. He spoke in revelation of the future.
"The rivers will flood the lands, engulf the earth, submerge the plants and drown the animals though you may never see these waters rise. Foolish leaders carelessly trade this land among foreign nations forcing the people to fight without uprising. Then comes the drought. Money will dry up and wither as  resources decline to exhaustion. Many go hunger as they cannot afford to buy food, many more perish in the bitter winters without electricity to light their homes or fuel to power the vehicles, appliances and generators. Famine turns to cannibalism, the people's hunger turns them on their foreign masters. The hunger will consume everyone. The people will not be prepared despite their preparation, the lies will blind their judgment and distract them."
He paused, looked at my sternly, "you are not to tell anyone of this future."

From the desk of the South African Ministry of Information:

Patient 42, Department X, Room 13. Standing in line, waiting on time, results might be worth it. This is the system anywhere in the world, rate the quality of service on the comfort of the chairs provided. A hard wooden bench creaking and groaning under the full weight of your butt suggests extended wait time. You can't rate the service, not as non existing as due process takes as long as it takes. Such institutions practice functional before efficient. Having spent many hours bench warming the afore mentioned practice needs a space on the wall between all the infographic charts filled with invaluable information so exclusive you cannot get it elsewhere, expect from the office of your local branch of the Ministry of Information. I sincerely hope such services are essential in the future as no experience captures the raw essence of being human among other humans without prejudice of titles, labels or definitions. Sitting on that furniture you meet other people, you discuss the present moment without the social media firewalls safeguarding your acronyms. At the time of writing this pop culture solicitation was professional therapy with online therapists pushing catch phrases. That isn't therapeutic, spend several hours waiting for assistance from a civil servant is a more productive session. The digital age fear reality, as it's not on your virtual profile. Reality is the even level where there's no exception, no special treatment and no one day rush. Immediately is not plausible, instantly is a word printed in the dictionary. Take a seat, wait to be seen to, file paperwork then return to waiting on those instruments of practical sitting. I'm grateful for the experience, I'm saddened it won't last, I'm glad the idiot millennial generation won't appreciate the value of the experience. The fake world versus real world stand-off of social consciousness consumes everything. Future dystopia without real interaction is bleak. A statement allegedly leaked from the department of internal affairs by an outgoing unnamed member. The department has submitted proposals for digital migration of all services stating, " people no longer need our help as they can help themselves using the Google."

In unrelated news select participants at a recent local municipal meeting were denied entry from the invitation only event cited by the organizers the event was at capacity. Factual evidence of this intentional deception was posted online illustrating capacity is a relative term as many more participants were observed entering the event after the capacity was reached. No members of the government have been available for comment as it's believed they're stuck in the venue at capacity. The presidency is considering a period of silent as recent statements during public address were paradoxically paradoxical oxymoron hyperbole. Silence is golden Mr President, get richer.

From the desk of the South African Ministry of Information:

Excerpt from unreleased documentation, first quarter, 2023. Allegedly...

Deep within the hidden departments of the government judiciary is an office existing between the realms of space/time reality of the known multiverse. Herein a dedicated team of Wikileaks enthusiasts collect, evaluate, deliberate and publish information. We have procured the voluntary services of these enthusiasts to share alleged leaks, allegedly. The government announced today it's plan to further fuck up the failing power utility by introducing a load shedding tax. This taxation on the duration of load shedding will be charged per stage and will fluctuate with the inconsistent schedule Eskom does not follow. In addition the government is encouraging motorists to adopt electric powered automobiles on which carbon tax reliefs are available but ultimately canceled out by the load shedding tax. This announcement comes after the petrol price increase set at whatever the fuck the government feels like setting it at, economic analysts suspect this part will be set extremely fucking high. In other news the government plans in introduce their revised improvements to the, until recently unknown mandatory rigged voting system applied to general governance elections. As stated by some random minister all votes whether cast or not automatically count in favour of the ruling majority party thereby canceling any accidental voting for any of the minority opposition. The automated process will be in effect for the next General election so nobody need attend or register or even be in opposition. Simply being in the country at the time of election automatically enters your vote. Said random minister further stated why bother voting if you don't vote for us, this new system is better. In other news the government is considering removing the low standard of education to better facilitate the proposed participation curriculum stating a 30% minimum passing requirement is a stumbling block many learners struggle to overcome. Participation ribbons will be replacing the certification as education of this standard is absolutely free, and irrelevant.