Step one: Drink, continue step one during all other steps.
step 2: play serene music and burn incense or something.
step 3: play videogames until result, or at least till when result is probable. In keeping with your declining motorskills (see step 1) and general state of apprehension that repititive grinding from that rpg you’ve been playing that you’ve been putting off is recommended. Compared to the election it shouldn’t feel monotonous and pointless at all.
step 4. Watch result.
Step 5. feel happy or sad depending upon the victory or defeat of your preffered candidate.
step 6. feel shame that you felt happy or sad for one of these shitheads.
step 7. check social media. Because well your going to anyway.
step 8. And this one’s important…..get off social media, it’s not going to help you.
and here’s where you can go one of two directions for the rest of the day/electoral period: wallowing and denial/repression let’s start with wallowing which we’ll call option A.
Option A. Wallowing in fatalisim, nihilisim, misery and despair. Now the intinct is to do this on social media via memes and run of the mill rant posts and article links but everyone will be doing that and your insight into how everything is shit is unique so it should be conveyed in a unique way……and THEN posted to social media because misery loves company as much as Trump loves attention and Hilary loves power (aka far more than anyone loves you). Now what I want you to do is go outside, feel the sun (if it’s sunny) on your face, the wind in your hair, watch the leaves rustle in the breeze, contemplate flowers and beauty and art, listen to the birds, the rain (if it’s raining) and beautiful music and contrast all these with the political developments and realities to which you have just borne witness. realise all beauty is transient. Watch the election coverage again breifly. Compose Japanese (“style”) death poetry. post to social media, bask in the accolades. reflect on the transience and emptyness of fame, compose some more death poetry.
Option B. shut out the world, eat ice cream from the container and watch a ghibli movie…..or three.
