it hasn't been an "impossible year"

let me start with this disclaimer: my sympathies are with those who have lost people they loved in this pandemic...i have lost people i love...i know what that is like...it is not an easy thing...my comments are not aimed at any of them...there is a hierarchy making money from all this...they merit caustic assessment...and that is where we are headed...

so...what is "culture"?...i was always under the impression it consited of geographical adaptation and problem solving...my good friends at the new york times seem to disagree...for them "culture would seem to be...

at least one part celberity...elton john graces the cover of the version i recieved today ( therre were other celebrity covers )...brad pitt is in there somewhere hawking some damn merchandise or other...there are other musicians and artists and chefs and other luminariesd i imagine they think everyone should be familiat with...sadly i am not...

obviously consumerism has a fair input to culture out east as well...i do consume...i just ate dinner ( the first sitting, in the kitchen ) and the ingredients had to be purchased...high end baubles and status symbol purses don't fall into what is consumed here...then again i am not of the east coast elite...the times is their mouthpiece so upscale luxury is the byword...even if they claim not to be elitist...the media lie a lot

alcohol and ( surprise! ) the celebrities who drink it seem to be a factor in "culture" as well...i am surely uncultured since i gave that nonsense up decades ago ( that is not an editorial...you may consume as much as you like without comment from me )...left behind again...i can't help but think that the times is confusing "culture" with engineered desires, status seeking, and "fine arts" ( is elton john "fine art"? depends on who you ask i suppose...he and i parted ways at "honky [honkey?] chateau )...i also am inclined to think this is an expression of the times elitism and its obsession with covid-19...it is narcissistic crap as far as i am concerned...it's good to know what the elite wants me to believe is important...it's why i continue to subscribe.