Hi nerds! It’s 6:49 AM on a Saturday and I am still experiencing jet lag. Ugh. In lieu of writing anything coherent, here’s a little mental exercise…

You know, sometimes I read the hype about television shows online and it’s complete nonsense. It seems that, post-pandemic, people have exhausted all options in regard to television viewing. We all spent so much time indoors, watching every last show on Netflix that there’s really nothing left to watch, so we scramble around, trying to figure out what will entertain us for the next thirty minutes so that we no longer have to think.

That’s the ultimate goal, isn’t it? We don’t want to think anymore. The news is depressing because the bad guys appear to be winning (they’re not) and our jobs no longer give us much satisfaction. So to turn off those dark, What’s the point of it all?-type thoughts, we bathe our brains in television, hoping to salve the mental scars of the last couple of years.