Ooh, ooh, my tummy hurts and I am sad. This must be a dastardly plot by the Cubans using advanced microwave devices that defy the laws of physics.

I had this thought like “there isn’t an ounce of creativity left in this dying empire”. Bit hyperbolic on my part, but then I was like, wait, can this be an actual observed phenomenon. Obviously there’s some creativity left in the imperial core, but if we’re going with a dialectical materialist view rather than viewing creativity as some kind of magic well you tap into, it does seem possible that a whole state project and embedded culture could become largely stagnant, creatively.

Given that the empire has not been directly confronted yet (even if anti-imperialist efforts are making its power recede) why would it bother to change its ways? It’s using the same playbook that has worked for it for decades. And which was used similarly by colonialism for hundreds of years. If we look at creativity as a response to circumstances, it’s still in the stages of finding out the limits of its playbook. So even though people seem to be increasing in awareness of the playbook, in part due to it going more mask off about it, it hasn’t yet faced the kind of total defeat that would force it to reconsider.

Havana couple of beers

i guess i will never have a turn on the tummy ache gun

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