There are now posts indicating that the UK has participated in an act of war against Russia.
So, I went shopping to stock up on supplies. The bizarre thing, was walking around the shop because I knew that I was shopping because there was now a realistic prospect of the UK and US starting a nuclear conflict.
It was hard to square the isle of nappies, with the prospect of a nuclear war. Even more bizarre was the idea that, at some unknown point in the future, the store could be filled with terrified people all desperately seeking the last loo rolls. Why they would want loo rolls, is rather weird. There are many many things that I would put ahead of loo rolls on an apocalypse shop, but it is generally accepted, it will be loo rolls that shops run out of in the run up to a nuclear war.
One bizarre thing was buying a few extra long-life Christmas puds for “the stores”. In terms of shelf-life it made perfect sense, but I couldn’t help wondering what I, or whoever found those puds, would do with the Christmas theme.
There is of course, a finite chance that in the next five minutes, everything will kick off. So, there is the question: “do I really want this (whatever I’m doing) to be the last thing I do?” The logical answer is obviously that it doesn’t matter what I’m doing if I then die, it only matters if I live, and then it isn’t the last thing I did, so I should just keep doing what I’m doing.
A more pertinent question would be this: “do I want to remember (this) as the last thing I was doing before everything changed?” Yet, if I knew of anything better to be doing, I would be doing it. The only way I might change, is if I stopped caring about the future, and e.g. spent a lot of money now to enjoy myself now rather than later. But, if I did that, I’m giving up on the future, and if I did that, that would be the thing I most regret if something happened and everything changed.
I do of course, have a plan. But, as covid showed, there is no point sharing the plan. Most people are daft, and I do not want the last thing I do, to be wasting my time trying to convince daft people.
I could publish my plan … but any money I make, would either 1) be from scare raising from something that didn’t happen or 2) be making money from an event that makes money meaningless and so there is no point making money from it. So I will not be publishing.
However, in the hope we make it that far … Happy Christmas and a (very) Merry New Year.
