Okay, let’s talk
about real shit for a minute now. If you haven‘t
noticed, we live in a world that’s
collapsing. In a colossal way. Our planet is steadily heading to an inevitable
doom (orchestrated by your one and only humans), we got rainforests going to
absolute shit, weather doing backflips... We are killing animals by billions,
both endangered ones and the regular ones (I mean the ones we apparently don’t give a fuck about). We are terminating any kinda natural
diversity, producing so much shit we don’t even
know what to do with it... Using so much plastic it goes beyond imagination.
And now we got coronavirus. Whole countries and cities on lockdown, stores and
restaurants shutting down, people dying all over the world. So fuck it, let’s talk about all of that shit. Let’s talk about it for real, cause I’m getting sick of it. Of all the
hypocrisy, of everybody talking the nice shit not really doing shit in their
own lives, of everybody talking about fucking economy and goals and money... Of
everybody acting like they’re nice
people... Like they are aware... And I don’t want
to make this motherfucker sound like I’m above
anybody. Lord knows I am flawed as fuck left and right, no matter how much I
try. So nah, this is not “I’m better than y’all blog.” This is “I’m sick of all the hypocrisy’ blog”.
You know how the coronavirus started, right? Wet markets?
Animals being kept in conditions you would probably throw up watching. Sick,
tortured, being held in cages, having no space to move... Which ironically doesn't differ much from what happens in slaughterhouses anywhere else. But fuck them, right?
Okay, but then the virus thing happened... These conditions basically enabled
the virus to mutate and develop to a from transmittable to humans. Couple of
weeks later, we are here. What is one of the major causes of climate change?
Animal products industry. We do things to animals we would not be able to watch
for 1 second. We all love them but we love our steaks more. We all love human
rights, but we love our cheap H&M t-shirts and iphones more. We talk all
that talk but we are not willing to walk the walk at all. And again, I’m not saying what you should be doing
but be fucking aware. Know that by making certain choices, you do contribute to
certain things. And doing certain shit just takes away your right to comment on
it. Wanna buy all that shit you don’t
really need that was produced in sweatshops in Asia? Then shut the fuck up about
human rights... Wanna have your fucking Big Mac for lunch and steak for dinner?
Then shut the fuck up about animal rights. And environmental issues. And
sustainability. Wanna know why the world is so fucked? You don’t. I mean you do know why but you don’t want to hear it. Cause that allows
everyone to stay in their comfort zone, not really changing shit. Selective blindness.
Especially us, in the West, we are mad responsible. And while I don’t wanna look at everyone as
personally accountable, I can’t help
but thinking.... If you are not willing to start with yourself, what the fuck
is the use of anything else? What are we talking about? How are you to better
the world if your own space is poisoned? I don’t have
an answer, I haven’t figured out how to heal the
world as a whole just yet, and I hope that this corona bullshit is gonna lead
to this whole system falling and recalibrating (although I kinda feel after
this, it’s gonna be further on rich
being way richer, poor being way poorer and the planet way more fucked). But
man... For the longest time, I was downplaying personal choices. I didn’t think I’m really changing the world by any of those. But as time
goes, it makes me think. I mean god damn it, at least I’m doing my absolute best to be consistent with it. You
cannot be a part of the problem and a part of the solution at the same time. It
doesn’t work like that. And you
gotta start with yourself. There’s no
other starting point, there’s no
skipping that, there’s no
way around it.
In some cases, the right way is not somewhere in between. In
some cases, the right way is obvious and questioning it is pure insanity. The right
choice is not somewhere in the middle between Trump and Sanders. No. The truth
is not between fossil fuel industry and Greta. Fucking no. The sustainable way
is not between animal products consumption and veganism. It is not. In some
cases, one side of an argument is obviously correct, whereas the other is
straight-up crazy. There is sufficient amount of evidence on where are we heading as
humanity (wars, refugees, constantly increasing gap between rich and poor,
neo-colonialism) and as a planet. And unless you are willing to roll the dice,
dismiss all the evidence, and hope that all the scientists are wrong, you
should fucking adjust at least a little bit. Or shut up. I don’t wanna sound too dramatic here but
the state in which we are leaving this world for future generations is horrific
and scares the shit out of me. And I don’t have
kids but I do have a nephew and I can feel this here and there when I look at
him. So yeah, stay safe, stay with your close ones, stay healthy during these
challenging times. Perhaps take some time to think about what’s really important in life. But don’t act like those things are acts of
god. They are not. They are acts of humans. Of all of us. And each and every
single one of us can do better. We know exactly what the problem is, it’s time to start dealing with it accordingly. Be aware of what’s going
on. And that goes for you and what’s
around you as well. That’s what
I believe in.
Okay, don’t wanna
hold you for too long so let me get back to the reason I started this blog, aka
my life. Which is still as entertaining as ever. So get this... Tuesday
afternoon I hop on my flight from Dubai to Vienna, I get some dinner at the
airport, go to the train station and before 10pm get off the train in Brno. My dad
waited for me along with his gf and Gin (the dog). We walked like 100m to my
dad’s pub and I got a warm Czech welcome.
Some drunk fellows around, lotta beer and shots... We stayed till midnight and
then did some more Jameson at home.
I woke up to some crazy shit though. Coronavirus is
spreading all over Europe and new measures reflect that. So yeah, the next day,
Czech government limited opening hours of restaurants till 20:00 and closed up
gyms. I mean, they did way more but these things had the most direct impact on
my life. Well, I spent the day with my sis, her gf and my nephew. I had missed
all of them so I enjoyed the hell out of it. I also stopped by at my open-air
veggie market to get some local groceries. Transitioning into a local
again.
The next day, I spent some more time with my sis and went for a
lunch to one of my favorite veggie restaurants in town. In the evening, I met
up with a friend of mine for some hangout in a café (again, one of my favorite ones). It was cool but they
did close at 20:00. After that we hung out at my place for a bit and that was
that. You would think the whole situation is strange enough, but boy oh boy,
it gets better.
So the next morning, new policy got announced. This time it’s closing everything for good with
the exception of grocery stores and pharmacies. No cafés, no
restaurants, no bars, no clubs, no shops, no open-air marktets. Nothing. So I
literally got like 3 days of shit being opened here after my arrival. On top of that,
we are closing borders. Nobody in or out (the exception being Czechs getting
back home from abroad). So that’s the
situation now. Coronavirus cases keep on increasing in numbers and this state of emergency
is planned for 30 days. Well, in the afternoon, I took the dog, met up with my
bro and we spent the day in parks drinking beer. It’s kinda cold here but during the day, when the sun is
shining, it is bearable. And parks were full of people. It really makes you
think about all the consequences of this situation. Maybe it’s gonna bring people together in a
weird way?
Sunday, I met up with my sis and her gf for a lunch and we hung
out some more after that. In the evening, I watched the new Star Wars with my
dad. I’m really being a family guy these days. Catching up with everything... Took only a global killer
virus to get me back here. Yay! Before I went to sleep, I read the news and it keeps
on rolling. So starting today, there’s a
nation-wide quarantine. Apart from going to work, getting some basic groceries
or visiting relatives (there’s some
limits with that one tho), you are not supposed to leave the house. I tried to
search what the fuck do I do if I have a dog that needs to be walked but I
haven’t found much. I guess I’m just gonna walk him and hope I won’t get locked up or pay like 150.000
EUR fine. If this shit is not a set up for a dystopian movie, I don’t know what is.
Apart from all of that, I used to run daily (since it was really
the only accessible workout – who knows
if I can do that still) and I enjoyed all the food over here. Sometimes cooking
myself, sometimes eating at my sis’,
sometimes at restaurants (that’s when
they were still open). I have also applied for some online jobs trying to get
my act together. I still see myself back in Shanghai in couple of weeks but who
the fuck knows what happens then. I'm sitting in my dad’s
kitchen now, old-school N.E.R.D. in my headphones (Provider is still my shit)
and I feel happy that I get to be with my fam in the middle of this
cluster-fuck. Sending love to all my peers. You know who you are. One!
Highlights:
- 808s & Heartbreaks is still one of the best albums of all time. Fuck what anybody says.
- Home sweet home.
- My fam & my people. For real for real.
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