Look, I don’t care how this comes off to everybody. But, at this point, it’s what I believe and I’m just going to write it down. That growing sense of disorientation about the world that you feel, I want you to understand something. It’s real. Something is very broken. Not just tiny broken. Not this is just “all politicians are the same and everyone is corrupt” and all the nonsense people say to themselves to avoid facing the reality of the matter that our entire way of life has been compromised. Our world is facing crisis. There are people, even now, who think that the final dispensation of this political moment will be calculated in terms of how “centrist” or “moderate” the candidate is. I know people who think like this. They are delusional. Completely delusional. There is no center.
A center would imply that there is a stable polity of two political factions living together inside a container of broad agreement about the basics, and finding some middle-ground on the specifics. If you think, like the seriously cognitively compromised Senator, John Fetterman does, that there is some meeting-point between two well-behaved factions who can horse-trade on the specifics, then I must inform you that you are living in complete and utter delusion.
I don’t say this to insult you. It’s just a fact, you see. Because outside your bubble, things are getting very serious.
Everybody understands that a very mentally ill man is the most powerful man in the world. The fact that everybody’s mental programming, somehow, someway tells them when they read that, what they are reading is a partisan viewpoint, that say, someone like me would have said no matter what, out of some tribal apologia, I want you to know that you are delusional. Completely. Utterly.
Hear me. Your entire world is about to come crumbling down, and ours along with it. You are at a disadvantage, you see, because you believe in your mind that what everyone wants is to “get back to normal.” To go back to the old way. But here’s the thing: there’s no going back. Humpty Dumpty has fallen off the wall. He cannot be put back together again.
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There is a new politics coming and the shape it takes is not going to be decided by the people in power right now.
The people in power right now have no moral authority. They will not be able to stop what’s coming. We are on the precipice of seeing political upheaval across the world unlike anything anyone has ever lived through. The authoritarians of the world are not sitting pretty. I’d be terrified if I were them.
I think Ukraine is going to win the war.
Hungary was a signal. The fascist formation in America will fall too. There is reckoning upon us.
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There’s a lot of people who have been hurt, are being hurt, and are going to be hurt by what’s coming. This is a time to be kind to the people around you.
Remember you are not a party-affiliation.
Help people who need help. Show kindness. Be the ballast that keeps the ship afloat, even as it takes on water. This is the moment of impact. This is the moment where the consequences are felt. Where the recognition arrives. We have arrived at catastrophe.
Build something better, and remember who lied to you and who told you the truth.
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I’m here to tell you what should already be abundantly clear: that simple truths, all around us, reveal things that are blatantly obvious. That we are now ruled by liars, cheaters, and men with an unbounded appetite for power. And this leaves us with only one path forward: revolution. Not a violent one. Not with guns. A cognitive revolution.
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I’ve been thinking the same thing for weeks, months even - UKRAINE WILL WIN THIS WAR. The question is only how fast. The fight they have put up is extraordinary, and watching explosions caused by UKRAINIAN MADE missiles- idk what kind but big ones! That was awesome.
Anyway I have been working on the connection between community, story and belonging for a long time, and I’m posting about it soon (I hope), and I think a big change we could make easily and used to do it naturally - simply look each person you interact with every day in the eye. Say hello. We are not colors on a graph or words on a page. Jesus came to save souls but he healed bodies! We are humans and we need and deserve to at least be seen.
Yes. Personal integrity, kindness and clear vision is needed by all now to refocus on humanity rather than power and money.