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Shut Up And Listen 193

Face Forward

Well, what now? I've been mulling over that question for the past . . . oh, forty seconds. What next?

We had the Canadian election and we lost.

We had the US election and we lost.

What the fuck next? What am I to do with myself? What am I supposed to write about? What does one do when he or she is stuck in a bad situation for at least another couple of years?

It was strange in the days following the US election . . . there was a sudden outburst of hopelessness, a sense of doom, and generally a feeling that the world is fucked, and then overnight, out of the woodworks came the left with the "we've only begun to fight" chant and the "let Bush clean up his mess, it's for the better" rhetoric and it was just so . . . pathetic. It was so fucking pathetic. There is nothing sadder than someone who just got fucked who tries to act like they didn't just get fucked. Some may call it having heart of being persistent or making the best of a bad situation, but the reality is that it's just fucking pathetic and sad.

We're not talking about being down three games to none in the Stanley Cup finals or anything, we're talking about getting your ass handed to you and you pretending like it didn't happen. I mean, where's that pissed off spirit? The "we've only begun to fight" shit isn't pissed off, it's denial. I want to see the pissed off, "holy shit, we just got fucked" spirit.

But really it's just back to same old, same old. The right gloats, the left just shakes it fist in the air yelling "I'll get you next time!" and people like me on the outside just shake their heads in disgust.

Back to the original question: what now?

I can't exactly write a long string of columns detailing how badly we're all fucked, as much fun as that may be, so what now? Business as usual? (Can't.) Quit? (Not likely.) Reformat? (Sloth.) New direction? (What?)

So . . . what now? What next?

I haven't the faintest idea. I'm done with this column, check in next week for something that's actually good.