@Soupe du jour and all:

That's hilarious, about an "autocracy run by the devil"!!! Very creative and original and funny! I'm pretty oblivious too as i don't consume news regularly. I've switched to our national public radio station here in Canada and it's soooooooo excellent, lots of entertaining, fun or poignant educational material but it's all so stimulating tho of course less so than TV news because it's just audio and there's just a sprinkling of news every half hour.

So that's better.

But for the past few days i've just been watching "INSIDE," the new comedy special by Bo Burnham on Netflix about his experience in lockdown. It's fun and deep and a bit disturbing as he deteriorates over his year+ of isolation working in his guest-house. He does a spoof of "White Woman's Instagram" and i must admit i was offended the first time thru but subsequent times i've grown fond of it. It's a bit insulting, but mostly just affectionately and amusingly observational and in the final analysis, i think it's accurate. I know i've posted pictures of flowers on Facebook and i like fuzzy comfy socks. As far as i know Bo is het (his partner is female) so i don't think it's misogynistic, just poking fun at us white women and he says our Instagram's are Heaven, so he recognizes our essence.

Yeah, i'll try not to get overwrought about the likely failure of my benzo taper, stopping at 2mg Valium. That's still 90% less than what i was taking and i can have feelings on it again, compassion, joy, hilarity, euphoria, love. It's just that if i go below 2mg, i feel fear. Well, it's such a small dose, i'm not gonna worry about it. Disappointed to be an addict for life but it'll keep me humble.