So the night went on, spent mostly washing things in different solutions and then waiting for them to dry.
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I keep mentioning photography simply because that's the language with which Pynchon has chosen to discuss the actual problem. Here, night is history or civilization. History goes on. Society continues to bumble along. Washing things in different solutions is probably two-fold: trying to correct the problems we, as a society, care about and have the ability to solve; and "washing" away those with which the men in power don't want to deal. "Waiting for them to dry", of course, means observing if efforts were successful (either to fix the problem or hide/get everybody to ignore the problem).
Sometimes the "washing things" part of the equation, when it's people in power doing it, becomes "making up a problem" as the solution to whatever they're trying to hide, or whatever power they're trying to grab. So they go on and on and on about immigration and how terrible it is and make it into a problem in the eyes of scared, xenophobic morons. This has been part of the playbook for the entirety of civilization, this othering to control the masses. It has the added effect of causing problems that wouldn't exist without the "solution" and soon the new problems need a new "solution" that's even worse than the first "solution" that caused all the problems.
Also the main thing currently being washed and hoping to dry into forgetfulness, of course, is The Epstein Files. Surprisingly, the conspiracy theorists were right for once: it's pedos all the way down. Except the reason they were right isn't as surprising as one might think. If you're a pedo, you accuse other people of being pedos not just because you're projecting but because you think what you do and enjoy must be what other people also enjoy. So you figure that if you love CSAM, everybody else must love it too! So you accuse people you dislike of being into it. What you don't realize is that people not into CSAM (meaning, hopefully, most people?) is that they don't really think about it all that much until it's brought up by either some conspiracy theorist or their local priest gets nabbed for it.
What I never would have understood if all of this QAnon weirdness hadn't cropped up in the world was how much of a language and experience in the world these CSAM pedos shared. They knew what they were up to so figured everybody else was up to it too. But more so, whenever you hear about one of them getting caught, they have so much CSAM material. People don't usually know how to find that stuff and yet there are people all over the world networked into this marketplace. They speak a common language and live in a shared world. They also believe that world is the normal world! They are living in the negative and assuming the rest of us see it too. But, like Merle, most of the world has never seen it, never thought much about it, and certainly wouldn't have believed in how deep-rooted this shit is.
This idea that a person lives their life in such a way that they automatically assume other people live the same way brings to mind something slightly off-topic but maybe still having to do with "washing history". My theory is that Donald Trump believes the 2020 election was stolen for a number of reason. One of those reasons, a simple one, is that he doesn't understand how votes are counted and how Democratic majorities reside in large urban centers while Republican majorities are usually many, many rural localities. So when voting begins, if all votes come in at the same pace, one per minute per precinct, say, after one minute, a state with 9 strong Republican rural precincts and 1 strong Democratic population dense center, the vote would be 9 Republican to 1 Democrat. This would keep going: 18 to 2, 27 to 3, 36 to 4, and so on. It would look like a rout underway! But soon enough, the small rural populations would run out of votes while the large Democratic population center would just keep on, minute after minute, ticking up one vote after another. Right up until it overwhelms the other votes and takes over. Which would happen much later that night, possibly in a day or two. So a dumb person who doesn't understand anything, like, say, Donald Trump, would think something was fishy.
But! The more pressing reason I think Trump believes his opponent cheated is that he cheated as well. And if he cheated and still lost, obviously his opponent had to have cheated to win! But he obviously can't use that as his explanation: "How did Biden win if I cheated? Well, he must have also cheated!" So instead, he just proclaims, without any proof, that Biden cheated. Because he must have, right?
Anyway, Fuck Trump. Fuck ICE. Fuck Republicans. Read a book, you violent dimwits!
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