Royal baby: Kate gives birth to boy

[NoOneMan]

130. Its basically too late to mitigate an existential catastrophe

So any measures in the past, full or half, can now be collectively deemed "symbolic". Our arbitrary bar at +2C will be exceeded and billions will die. What one man may or may not have done is not important, though it is more worthy of mention than another baby to add to our 8 billion non-unique copies of inept genetic material. Our babies' babies will starve and die. Our babies' babies will witness social chaos, injustice and travesty as a result of nations falling apart at the seems. Our babies' babies will be caught between economic breakdown, crime, famine and drought in a combination that will be fatal and entirely depressing.

But how many really give a fuck about our babies' babies when we can have climaxes over today's royal baby born on TV to two people we all have never met and who will never so much as impart an ounce of benefit into our lives in reality?

If all we are looking for is a smile and a giggle (and damn a damned world in reality), then we can find such a giggle in a pill and drink our sorrow away. For anyone who thinks that is a terrible non-solution to what lies ahead, I posit that giggling at the useless wedding and baby fodder is an equivilent non-solution to pummeling our brains with intoxicants that induce a blissful stupor. There is a real world out there, and it doesn't wear a fascinator. There are real experiences to be had that will immensely benefit our lives. And there is a real threat on a horizon that a fake giggle won't fix (but community action can help you and your babies' babies find resilience and safety).

Its all too easy to care about the pretty fake fantasy babies our fantasy people in their fantasy worlds bring to us. But we have real babies to look after due to real problems that are being ignored by this bullshit