Summer is coming

Having watched the penultimate episode of the 5th season last night, I guess I can say I have finally catched up with Game of Thrones! I have yet to see what the fuck will happen to Jon Snow, but otherwise I'm all set to wait & suffer with my friends until April when the next season is said to come by. Right from the start, however, I felt that this whole "winter is coming" thing might just be an allegory of climate change. Whenever I started musing about the blatant stupidity of all those folks fighting their bullshit wars instead of joining forces against the real bad guys, I was immediately reassured by the fact that this is quite exactly what we're doing right here in the real world!

So who are the real white walkers? People worried about immigrants instead of global warming? Definitely not. Sorry, homies, you're just wights here! You are always expendable. But what about your favourite politicians? Now those might be less expendable (than you) indeed, yet I think Donald Trump should still do a bit more work on his fabulous white walker hairstyle. Or maybe the CEO's of those big banks & oil companies & defense contractors always ready to chip in and/or pull the strings for any proper douchebag demagogue anywhere in the Western world? Alright, brothers! Fetch the dragonglass...

No, wait! Are evil people really so special? What if these impotent old assholes are actually comforting themselves with our dystopias instead of facing the fact that they are nothing but the modern equivalents of Tywin Lannister, trying to visualize a superhuman master race with all the powers of bio-engineering & nanotechnology as their big fuckin legacy? But why should their super decadent grandsons give a shit about becoming superhuman in a world that is becoming less & less desirable to live in? Why not just spend their old days tormenting young girls for fun in exchange for letting them live in their underground castles, piling up the rest of us in the haunted forest? Will we even find anyone to enlist us in a great undead army there? And if so, will anyone be willing to fight against them? What if they will be a bunch of crazy scientists offering us a half-baked version of Transhumanism to keep us alive and let us take revenge for the destruction of our precious planet under their command? Why should we say no to them? Come on, we're all gonna die anyway! Valar morghulis!!!