This is hell

This is Hell.

Chris, inquiring minds want to know what was the music that you were playing before the show started today.

A mixtape by the solo set since produced Cypress Hill, Cycle Realm, Funk Dubious, House of Pain.

So it's just they have a mixtape online, and sometimes I go on YouTube, listen to various

mixtapes.

Sweet. That's very good. I like the music today. Very appropriate.

On this day, the day after the inauguration of Donald J. Trump, as president of the United

States, for the second time, it's more important than ever.

To remember the words of early 20th century Marxist philosopher, Antonio Gramsci, who said,

The Old World is dying and the new world struggles to be born.

Now is the time of monsters.

This is hell.

Okay, Gramsci did not say the This is hell part, but we've been using those words as a tagline lately because they are increasingly appropriate and words to

remember for plenty more meaningful and important reasons than simply another Trump

administration. For example, climate change causing wildfires fueled by overdevelopment

in areas historically susceptible to such conflagrations

continues to be caused by the actions of an old world,

which is not just dying, but apparently doing the best it can to kill itself.

Sure, there appeared to be a possibility of a new world where we all are in this together.

That was when the pandemic was at its most deadly and raging across the nation. There was a popular uprising against police violence,

especially deadly, racialized police violence, targeting black Americans. It seemed there was at least

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