“Look Back Over The Past, With Its Changing Empires That Rose And Fell, And You Can Foresee The Future,

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Viktor Frankl

"Lady Mary, I am here in kindness. I would welcome you back to court and reconcile you with your father…if you will only accept me as queen."

THE TUDORS - 2.04 The Act of Succession

Kill Bill (2003)

— KILL BILL VOL. I & II Costume Design by Kumiko Ogawa & Catherine Marie Thomas

“Man’s unhappiness, says Descartes, is due to his having first been a child. And indeed the unfortunate choices which most men make can only be explained by the fact that they have taken place on the basis of childhood. The child’s situation is characterized by his finding himself cast into a universe which he has not helped to establish, which has been fashioned without him, and which appears to him as an absolute to which he can only submit. In his eyes, human inventions, words, customs, and values are given facts, as inevitable as the sky and the trees. […] He is allowed to play, to expend his existence freely. In his child’s circle he feels that he can passionately pursue and joyfully attain goals which he has set up for himself. But if he fulfills this experience in all tranquility, it is precisely because the domain open to his subjectivity seems insignificant and puerile in his own eyes. He feels himself happily irresponsible. The real world is that of adults where he is allowed only to respect and obey. […] Rewards, punishments, prizes, words of praise or blame instill in him the conviction that there exist a good and an evil which like a sun and a moon exist as ends in themselves. In his universe of definite and substantial things, beneath the sovereign eyes of grown-up persons, he thinks that he too has being in a definite and substantial way. […] He can do with impunity whatever he likes. He knows that nothing can ever happen through him; everything is already given; his acts engage nothing, not even himself.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

Mr Robot; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me; Industry

Anyway if nothing else matters then I hope people remember that Pope Francis used his last public address to call for a ceasefire in Gaza and call Israel a terrorist state:

"I continue to receive very serious and painful news from Gaza. Unarmed civilians are subjected to bombings and shootings. It is terrorism."

Interior of the Colosseum, Rome (1832) by Thomas Cole