BRAVA! You propose a BRILLIANT vaccine, perhaps the only adequate vaccine for the fasci-virus afflicting our beloved country. If we can ride it out by being the best selves we are and once were, whether that be first-responders or good stayers-out-of-the-way of those who know what to do but be loud cheerers-on and repeated commenters to those who purport to know what to do, we may actually return to our former selves albeit having learned just how precariously we cling to our humanity in the face of this particular virus…and we do it in community!
Perfect 911 call to self and to the We. Everything I read points to moving right into community. Any community. Which too many of us have slid away from -because we can. Thank you.
This is a stunning post. This line really lingers: "merely despising the despisable behavior at the top, and failing to own it where it seeps into the ecosystem of my own mind, only sets up further alienation, the kind of splitting and othering that leads to impasse and dehumanization, even cruelty, on the larger scale in the first place."
BRAVA! You propose a BRILLIANT vaccine, perhaps the only adequate vaccine for the fasci-virus afflicting our beloved country. If we can ride it out by being the best selves we are and once were, whether that be first-responders or good stayers-out-of-the-way of those who know what to do but be loud cheerers-on and repeated commenters to those who purport to know what to do, we may actually return to our former selves albeit having learned just how precariously we cling to our humanity in the face of this particular virus…and we do it in community!
Perfect 911 call to self and to the We. Everything I read points to moving right into community. Any community. Which too many of us have slid away from -because we can. Thank you.
Beautiful and funny and truthful and relatable and hopeful.
The only thing anyone needs to read right now 💜
This is absolutely one of the best pieces I've read in months.
This is a stunning post. This line really lingers: "merely despising the despisable behavior at the top, and failing to own it where it seeps into the ecosystem of my own mind, only sets up further alienation, the kind of splitting and othering that leads to impasse and dehumanization, even cruelty, on the larger scale in the first place."