Watching TV

January 8, 2026

As sometimes happens, I get something stuck in my head and it turns out to preemptively comment on somethign going on. Sometimes it’s something in my life, sometimes, as in this case, it ends up commenting on world events.

Things that stick out to me about this video:

“she was the daughter of an engineer”: I have this mindworm lately about folks who had one or more parents who were engineers. My father was an engineer - I don’t think the same as the other kids in the class.
“she was the one in fifty million who can help us to be free… because she died on TV”. In this song he is commenting on what happened Tianneman Square a long time ago. The recent murder of a protester by ICE of a protester seems to remind me of this. May we take this as a call to peaceful action.
There is a subset of people who use references to comment on things. I do this: I’ll reference a book, a movie, a song which, if you know the reference, makes some commentary on the situation at hand.

I don’t know what else to say about this that isn’t being said elsewhere, but this song is my contribution to the conversation.

Oh yeah… The revolution will not be televised… but YouTube provides…

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