The Hump of the Camel

I was surprised to see how the prophesied “red wave” has turned to a “red trickle” in the US mid-term elections. Surprised, that is, in the same kind of way one is “surprised” when a drug regulator recommends mRNA vaccines for infants, or when whoever you vote for you still end up tied to the EU.

I finally came round to joining the minority of people who realised there was a deep-seated and multi-faceted subversion of society going on around 2019. Late to the game, Jon – shame on you. But since the COVID abomination began early in 2020, the conviction that the world has gone mad has become almost universal, though a depressing percentage of people seem to think it’s just one damn thing after another, without seeing any connection between the escalating crises. It seems to me that at this stage, such a conclusion is pure psychological denial. But might it indeed be the case that the appearance of One Big Thing is illusory, and that although there has indeed been skulduggery, it’s a disparate skulduggery?

Most days over the last few months there has been, in The Hump web-stats, a single hit from Kyiv. There’s been occasional interest from other cities in Western Ukraine, as well as the odd hit from Donbas or the Crimea, but this “fan” was a regular. Until last week, that is, since the first Russian air-strikes, when he seems to have stopped. By this I conclude that I was being monitored by the SBU, whose HQ was one of those buildings taken down by the strikes.