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.