As I’ve said once, twice, three times a lady, I don’t read or watch much news anymore.
Not because I don’t care. No. Because I care too much.
Trying to stay informed these days feels less like consuming information and more like voluntarily climbing into a cesspool of conspiracy theories, outrage bait, state- sponsored propaganda, political theater, and grown adults behaving like toddlers across the internet.
The noise never stops.
And somewhere underneath all that noise is an increasingly uncomfortable realization: humanity may be fundamentally incapable of learning from its own history. Or even from things that are happening right here, right now.
Case in point: I just found out Spencer Pratt is running for Mayor of Los Angeles.
If you’re not familiar, Pratt is the former “prince of reality tv”. He is also the human embodiment of “What if a tabloid headline became sentient?”
I don’t know what Pratt’s politics are, and honestly, I don’t care. My issue is less about party affiliation and more about the fact that we continue confusing fame with competence.
At some point, society collectively decided that being loud, recognizable, and willing to embarrass yourself publicly qualifies a person to run things.
And that feels…far from ideal.
Of course, Spencer Pratt isn’t the first celebrity to wander into politics. And he won’t be the last. But after the last decade, you’d think Americans might collectively pause before handing microphones and power to aging reality stars whose primary qualification is “people know my name.”
Apparently not.
Because history keeps repeating itself. Over and over and over again.
We ignore warning signs. We romanticize chaos. We reward performance instead of substance. Then we all stand around shocked when the circus tent catches fire. Again.
And maybe that’s the most exhausting part of modern life. Not the bad decisions themselves, but how predictable they’ve become.
We keep acting like every disaster arrived out of nowhere.
Meanwhile, history sits in the corner screaming, “I literally told you this would happen.”
To be fair, this isn’t just about politics. Humans repeat the same mistakes everywhere:
Relationships
Economics
Social trends
Technology
Wars
Environmental collapse
Fashion
The older I get, the more I realize history isn’t some dusty collection of dates and dead people. It’s patterns. Cycles. Human behavior wearing slightly different clothing.
And unfortunately, humans are very committed to reruns.
Maybe that’s because learning from the past requires humility. It requires admitting people before us might have known something. It requires self-awareness. Reflection. Accountability.
All qualities currently getting bulldozed by algorithms and influencer culture.
Everything now is immediate. Reactive. Performative.
Nobody wants to study history when there’s content to make.
Still, I try not to become completely cynical about it all. Because every once in a while, people do learn. Communities do evolve. Progress does happen, even if it arrives slower than dial-up internet and more noise than a F1 race.
But some days?
Some days it really feels like humanity is trapped in an endless cycle of making the same mistakes, ignoring the same warnings, and acting stunned when the ending never changes.
Keep calm and vote on!
Clint 🌈✌️
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PHOTOS OF THE DAY
FROM THE ARCHIVES
BORN THIS WAY ON THIS DAY
05-14 = Julian Eltinge (1881-1941) = American actor and female impersonator 🌈
05-14 = Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) = German physician and sexologist 🌈
05-14 = Richard Deacon (1921-1984) = American actor 🌈
MAN CRUSH OF THE DAY
“Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.”
Magnus Hirschfeld
History is a shame. When we cycle, shouldn't we cycle to a higher level and cycle again but again to a higher level? Seems to not be working. And trump is forcing the cycle to take us back to lower levels of most things. Fondly, Feeling hopeless, Michael
We are primates. We run on feelings more than logic or rationality - concerned by tribalism, competition over resources, alpha status, aggression. Also caring, empathetic and so on ...
We are bright but we learn slowly in taming our animal natures.
I hope and trust in evolution but it won't happen in my lifetime.