Change...I'm glad to change, but then I catch myself in old habits, after all I'll be 77 next month, so I snap the virtual rubber band around my wrist and ask myself to not-quietly accept and move in a more positive direction.
So here’s the thing. “Nothing lasts forever—good or bad”; true words. As true as when a lovely woman I worked with, an addictions therapist, said them some 30 years ago in group. But we aren’t all going to live through the bad times. We just aren’t. Whatever resilience I still had has been sapped. Now the second guessing, chest thumping pundits on the Democratic side of the fight are criticizing each other and everyone else. Get off Kamala Harris’ back, STFU, and acknowledge some of us won’t outlive this mess. Try this on for size, pundit class: Dresden fire bombing.
I hope they do turn on each other. There really is “no honor among thieves,”a lesson that I wish we collectively would not have to see empirically proved.
I saw that. And Musk's net worth skyrocketed. Although Tim Snyder also realized that the billionaire class will turn and eat each other for breakfast, too. They are narcissists in the extreme: I would pay to see that cage match. jk I would throw up.
Indeed. We may not all live to see this righted if taken as a monolith, together with the destruction we envision and that which has already degraded even more our values and institutions. I don't like the dems' finger-pointing and criticisms, unless they turn into constructive lessons for the future. I take hope from Timothy Snyder's observation that the republicans haven't been able to get anything passed even with a House majority, so he thinks they will not be any more effective with the Executive and Senate majority and will, at least in my own words, continue to turn on each other like the rabid beasts they are. They have nothing to bind them but hate and chaos. Those will be our openings.
Thank you for this. I've been trying to use denial as a coping strategy, but yesterday I had to have an "embrace the suck" moment. This is my takeaway from your post:
"So, when everything isn’t fixed, all the cracks will start to appear in the fever dream delusion these voters have been living in—and those are the places to stick wedges of truth and start tapping on every one of them."
Thanks for your thoughts, Liz. It is hard to imagine how things will proceed, given our understanding of what has been stolen and damaged. I take heart in Timothy Snyder's interview, and am beginning to imagine something beyond catastrophe: https://substack.com/@katemorganreade/note/c-76113918
Radical uncertainty. Yes, lean into it for sure. But don't give up the calling out of truth as you see and feel it. As someone once said, "we are not potted plants."
Change...I'm glad to change, but then I catch myself in old habits, after all I'll be 77 next month, so I snap the virtual rubber band around my wrist and ask myself to not-quietly accept and move in a more positive direction.
Sometimes it works.
Thanks for sharing.
I love this: "I snap the virtual rubber band around my wrist and ask myself to not-quietly accept and move in a more positive direction."
So here’s the thing. “Nothing lasts forever—good or bad”; true words. As true as when a lovely woman I worked with, an addictions therapist, said them some 30 years ago in group. But we aren’t all going to live through the bad times. We just aren’t. Whatever resilience I still had has been sapped. Now the second guessing, chest thumping pundits on the Democratic side of the fight are criticizing each other and everyone else. Get off Kamala Harris’ back, STFU, and acknowledge some of us won’t outlive this mess. Try this on for size, pundit class: Dresden fire bombing.
I hope they do turn on each other. There really is “no honor among thieves,”a lesson that I wish we collectively would not have to see empirically proved.
Well said, Mary.
Thanks Kate. And directly on point: Rubio is headed for State.
I saw that. And Musk's net worth skyrocketed. Although Tim Snyder also realized that the billionaire class will turn and eat each other for breakfast, too. They are narcissists in the extreme: I would pay to see that cage match. jk I would throw up.
Indeed. We may not all live to see this righted if taken as a monolith, together with the destruction we envision and that which has already degraded even more our values and institutions. I don't like the dems' finger-pointing and criticisms, unless they turn into constructive lessons for the future. I take hope from Timothy Snyder's observation that the republicans haven't been able to get anything passed even with a House majority, so he thinks they will not be any more effective with the Executive and Senate majority and will, at least in my own words, continue to turn on each other like the rabid beasts they are. They have nothing to bind them but hate and chaos. Those will be our openings.
Thank you for this. I've been trying to use denial as a coping strategy, but yesterday I had to have an "embrace the suck" moment. This is my takeaway from your post:
"So, when everything isn’t fixed, all the cracks will start to appear in the fever dream delusion these voters have been living in—and those are the places to stick wedges of truth and start tapping on every one of them."
Thanks for your thoughts, Liz. It is hard to imagine how things will proceed, given our understanding of what has been stolen and damaged. I take heart in Timothy Snyder's interview, and am beginning to imagine something beyond catastrophe: https://substack.com/@katemorganreade/note/c-76113918
Radical uncertainty. Yes, lean into it for sure. But don't give up the calling out of truth as you see and feel it. As someone once said, "we are not potted plants."
Hear, Hear!