Perhaps I should let go of my skepticisms of this year as it were, not because I've come to see any truth in any of it, no..

but because resistance is futile. 🥺 I should consider myself lucky enough, I guess, to have spend half my life relatively free of tyrannical rule, and just accept this dystopian outlook on my time remaining as that's the way the cookie crumbles. Some folks are born, live, and die in oppression. Me, I lived 35 years in relative freedom, so.. life wasn't all that bad I guess, was it?

*sigh*