Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: 32°C, hot, sunny, stuffy, and slightly overcast.
As the month wraps up, I’m getting ready for my trip to England, which will happen this time next month.
There’s a bank holiday coming up this week, plus two more in November, making it three bank holidays in total. The number of these holidays makes me wonder about their effect on national productivity.
The weather is unsettled today, with bursts of rain now and again, but generally quite hot and stuffy. In the morning, I took Perola for a walk in the park, which also served as my exercise. I believe it was my first time exercising outdoors in a week. At that point, it was hot, and the sun was intense.
However, it changed in less than an hour; it became overcast, and rain was on the way. It rained throughout the night, leaving parts of Flamingo with large puddles that made crossing the streets at some junctions difficult. Yet, when it is not too hot, the air has a refreshing feeling.
For the rest of the day, I worked a bit preparing posts for the blog and attempting to watch a DiCaprio film about money, oil, and the killing of American Indians after the First World War.
From the first impressions, the film is very well made, with DiCaprio in an Oscar-worthy role and delivering an Oscar-winning performance.
What upsets me is the plot itself, which revolves around American Red Indians discovering black gold-crude oil on their lands by chance, making them rich. This leads to power struggles as money-hungry and ambitious white men kill off the rich Indians.
I haven’t seen the whole film yet; I couldn’t. It was too much for me. The story’s moral is clear: money corrupts, and ethnic minorities suffer even more when they have money.
It is complicated for me to watch this kind of film where innocent people are murdered. It highlights corruption and the desperation for money in life, among others, which have been woven into the fabric of our society. The rich and powerful always want more, while ordinary people get stamped and trampled upon.
This has occurred throughout our history and across all cultures. Human nature is perverse and twisted, stemming from basic feelings such as jealousy, insecurity, envy, and self-pity. Human beings can commit the most abominable acts against fellow humans from such basic feelings. You do not or rarely see the same behaviour in animals, at least not to the extent that human beings are capable of.
Starlin-Russia, Hitler-Germany and Mao Zedong-China and people say; BG in the future.
In bed by 9.30 am.
Thank you.
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Richard
