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First World Boredom These Disgusting Stars [Disquiet0248]

Well, I've had a bit of an awful week. Loads of stuff gets me down. I look forward to the Disquiet Junto each Thursday evening but couldn't get my thoughts on this weeks events out my head, it seems grotesque to think of this subject matter when the world in on fire. So yeah, some stuff got me which is personal and I don't want to make it public but then also my son got sick. Then on top of that I get a message from my friend in London who was racially abused (how the hell did we get to the stage that people seem to think its OK to be verbally racist to strangers again?), this country, post-brexit makes me sick at the moment, this really upset me. I watched the news about Syria, always great news! Then another day I read an article all about Menwith Hill and these 'indirect' actions of the USA and UK actions in Yemen which left me sick. Things snowball, emotions run high.

So to read about David Sneider and his Galactic Tick day was laughable to me, he said he wants "a new perspective in anyone who can look up and imagine our entire solar system careening through the galaxy" - to which I thought do they not teach you that stuff in school in the USA? It seems childish, obscene, first world boredom these disgusting stars. Do we stare at the stars in order not to think about the bombs we are dropping on other parts of the world?

So I sang for this weeks Junto, although its barely audible, the words are;
"A Man in California hikes and looks at the stars outside, inside the stars explode in Aleppo, look at the world, the disgusting stars I see". I don't like singing, I have an awful singing voice so I buried my voice in some reverb.

Anyway I am going on Holiday next and hope to return in a better mood!
Peace x

More on this weeks Junto.

Disquiet Junto Project 0248: Galactic Tick
Celebrate the new celestial holiday in music.

Project Steps:

Step 1: Read up on the Galactic Tick, a new proposed holiday exploring, as described by Popular Mechanics, “how people’s perceptions would change if they really realized the one fixed point in their celestial understanding, the mighty sun, was also in flux.”

popularmechanics.com/space/dee...ay-september-29

galactictick.com

Step 2: Devise a short piece of music in celebration of the Galactic Tick. Perhaps you’ll explore the distance of 225 million years, which is how often the Earth fully circles the center of the Milky Way. Perhaps you’ll find cosmic meaning in 1/129,600,000, which is the “centi-arcsecond” employed by the Galactic Tick planners to make the period of time more human-comprehensible. Perhaps you’ll find meaning in 633.7, which is the number of days between celebrations of the Galactic Tick here on Earth, or 1.74, which is the number of years.