The HOT ZONE: Life Is a Cabaret
The Heat is on EcoHealth Alliance, Dr. Tabak's admission, the shooting of Robert Fico, mysterious deaths in Africa, Bird flu airborne spread among minks, mpox outbreak in Congo.
A friend just returned from a trip to New York complaining that the new Broadway revival of Cabaret is an unwatchable combination of gratuitous raunchiness with zero poignancy and bad singing—a depressing disappointment for people who loved Bob Fosse’s 1972 film. I wonder if the critic is just being nostalgic. And of course, Liza Minnelli’s performance is an impossible act to follow.
These days I’m often reminded of Cabaret, with its mixture of campy theatricality, absurdity, illusion, and apocalyptic dread. Sally Bowles proclaimed there is no sense in letting all of the destabilizing uncertainty get us down.
What good's permitting
Some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret!
As perplexed and often disturbed as we are by this weird world of ours, we strive to retain our sense of humor. Without it, we might become despondent.
In this episode of the HOT ZONE, we examine the whacky events of the last week and wonder what’s next. Nothing would surprise us!
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Good chat about grim news. I wish I had more time to get a daily dose.
Interesting thing about the age of Fauci and his ilk, retreating into retirement after causing so much damage. Suspect there is a correlation between that age and the age (and lack of dependency on institutional salaries or funding) and those who are speaking out. Like the activists here in Japan, it is mostly retirees who are most politically, communally active because the young men are held hostage by the workplace demands, the young women by motherhood. By the way, I'll be going to the Hibiya May 31 anti-WHO rally, said to be the biggest in the world to date. I will be the foreigner holding up a tiny Osmo3 video camera and wearing my old "Arrest Fauci" t-shirt.
Regarding Dr. McCollough's mention about what kind of people become CEO's, even though I've been studying Cluster B / Dark triad personality types for about a decade now, a recent meme lifted from Frank Herbert's "Dune" is quite pity, though I would change the word "government" to "institutions" (as opposed to communities) ... "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts Pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."
Oh, and the movie adaptation of, "The Constant Gardener" is one of my favorites.
I too use XClear, great success. But, did this lady use it, and with success?