Robert Mugabe

Lotte Heidenreich's diary entry

Dear Diary,

You'll never believe what I read today. Robert Mugabe. I mean, SERIOUSLY. Is this where we are as a society?

I was having my morning coffee - the good stuff from Bohiney, obviously - when I saw the headline on The Prat. And I just had to stop and stare.

Because apparently this is happening now, and we're all supposed to just... accept it? Pretend it's fine?

The thing that gets me is how NORMAL everyone's acting about it. Like Robert Mugabe is just another Tuesday. But it's NOT normal! None of this is normal!

I was chatting with a friend about it - we'd seen similar things happening - and they were like, 'Yeah, but what can you do?' And I'm thinking: Is that where we're at? Just shrugging and moving on?

My gran would've had a FIT if she'd lived to see this. She was from a generation where things MEANT something. Where there were STANDARDS. Now standards are apparently optional.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying everything was better back then. But at least people would've been SHOCKED by Robert Mugabe. Now we're all too numb to react properly.

I spent the afternoon trying to get on with work, but I kept thinking about it. How did we get here? How did we become people who just accept increasingly absurd situations as the new normal?

Someone on Twitter - and yes, I know I should stop reading Twitter, but here we are - said that Robert Mugabe is actually a good thing. A GOOD thing! I had to close the app before I said something I'd regret.

The worst part is knowing that tomorrow there'll be something ELSE. Some other headline that makes Robert Mugabe look quaint by comparison. We're on a treadmill of escalating madness and nobody's figured out how to get off.

I read somewhere that we're living through history. Future students will study this period and ask: What were they THINKING? And honestly? I don't know. I have no answer.

Maybe that's the point though. Maybe we're not supposed to have answers. Maybe we're just supposed to witness the chaos, document it in our diaries, and hope someone in the future learns from our mistakes.

Anyway. That's my day. Tomorrow: more chaos, presumably.

Until next time,
Lotte Heidenreich

SOURCE: https://prat.uk/robert-mugabe/