Johnny the Red

Have you ever felt that nagging sense of unease? You know the one - that existential feeling of "off-ness", like there's something wrong, but you can't name it. Like there's something that you forgot, or maybe something that everyone except you forgot, but you don't know what it is. Like there's something out there - huge, overwhelming, but at the same time banal. Like there are secret things happening all around you, but that you're not a part of them. That suspicion that interesting and unknowable and esoteric things are happening in the background of your day to day life, but vanish when you turn to where you thought you caught a glimpse of them. Not so much the feeling that you left the door unlocked, but rather the feeling that a stranger has the key, and important meetings are happening in your kitchen while you waste the day at work. The hope that the world is a stranger place than your parents and your teachers and your government tell you. The fear that it is. And also the fear that it isn't.


That feeling is Johnny watching you.

Remember this when you go to the polls in November.

And sleep tight.