{"id":53006,"date":"2016-08-10T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toiletovhell.com\/?p=53006"},"modified":"2016-08-10T10:05:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T15:05:37","slug":"review-wreck-and-reference-indifferent-rivers-romance-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toiletovhell.com\/review-wreck-and-reference-indifferent-rivers-romance-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Wreck and Reference – Indifferent Rivers Romance End<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Felix and Ignat of Wreck and Reference<\/b>,<\/p>\n

Everything is going to be okay. It\u2019s not all bad, right? I mean, just think about how many puppies and kitties there are in the world. Imagine when a puppy or kitty falls over because it is too stupid to negotiate with gravity. Isn\u2019t that cute? Isn\u2019t that a reason to smile?<\/p>\n

\"No.\"<\/a>

No.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

Sure, we\u2019ve got problems. I mean for one, as of the time of this writing, Donald Trump could very well be elected President of the United States of America. And if it\u2019s not him, it will be Hillary. Plus the poison water crisis in Flint, MI is spreading across the nation. And terrorist cells are operating within our borders at this very second, planning something awful. Not to mention the scads of citizen nutjobs who\u2019ve unsolicitedly aligned themselves with terrorist organizations\u00a0because they are idiots\u00a0and crave violence. And it seems like every day there\u2019s a new video of a cop illegally harassing or flat out murdering someone. Which reminds me that police officers these days are operating on extreme levels of paranoia because the country\u2019s streets are flooded with unregistered firearms and certifiably insane people who have not received treatment because our mental health institution has been more or less defunct since 1984. And sure, if you forget about the U.S. and look to the wider world, you\u2019ll see that terrorists attacks are essentially a daily occurrence now, as regular as the rising and setting of the Sun. No, no one would blame you for drawing certain symbolic parallels between the half-dozen wars raging in the Middle East and the events described in the Biblical Book of Revelations. Which is to say nothing of the untold millions of women of said region who have been oppressed, raped and killed throughout history because it\u2019s not really super-duper illegal to oppress, rape or kill them. And don\u2019t even get me started<\/i> on that sociopathic bastard, Putin, instigating extreme unrest in diplomatically precarious Eastern Europe and angling for control of oil supplies in that pesky ol\u2019 Middle East. Let\u2019s not even mention the plague of genocides and actual plagues raging across Africa or the globally overlooked war crimes committed regularly by totalitarian dictators or military oligarchies in Southeast Asia. And shit, it just occurred to me that an appalling percentage of those puppies and kitties I mentioned above are starving in the streets like vermin, never to know the warm touch of a loving human overlord and–holy fuck you were right all along, it is all bad and nothing is ever going to be okay<\/i>.<\/p>\n