Posthuman Blues

I have this wretched, maverick urge to -- maybe -- vote in the presidential election. I'm confessing to it; that's the point of this post.

And although I haven't properly confronted it, I suspect part of me is almost enjoying the Fall of America (which will certainly continue regardless who "wins," thereby dampening my wholly unexpected urge to take part in the election). Politics have outlived their nominal usefulness; seeing the system disintegrate wholesale is paradoxically reassuring -- with luck, we might wake up to the real issues that shadow virtually everyone on this planet, issues that have gone blissfully unwhispered throughout the entirety of the campaign we Americans have been so steeped in.