Kidnapping has replaced credit card cloning

Kidnapping has replaced credit card cloning as the Number One thing to worry about instead of corruption, which replaced the pandemic, which replaced the production and cost of petrol. 

Getting old has replaced being young as a point of intense anxiety, that existed when international lunatics started crossing borders to steal children. Now nobody wants to be too old or too young, too rich or too poor.

Someone cloned my credit card and went on a shopping spree, which didn’t last very long. But they bought themselves some cool stuff while I sat miles away wondering why my bank balance was looking different.

I started to wonder why I have to work to get what I want, when other people just get what they want because I work. 

If every stranger is a potential kidnapper, and every cash point is a place of infiltration, and every cellphone app is a point of observation, then we have no reason to look back at bad historical regimes with sickeningly negative nostalgia. 

Today is also a bad place to be, because full access to the present is just a password away from total destruction. But it’s corny and pathetic to say I just want to live in tree house, in a forest. 

Apparently your body will warn you exactly one month before you have a heart attack. It will tell you to slow down and get real about things. It will tell you to stop being such an artist.