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Aftermath - "The Real"
10 months ago
I have very wonderful friends and loved ones. Those who keep me grounded in the real.
And the real is that - things are going to suck. A downward wave. My last post was just me vomiting out the sheer choking negativity, and getting it out of my system. This morning I feel... more like a blank slate. And I want to take advantage of that.
Honestly? It is going to get worse before it gets better. There is going to be a lot of doomsaying. There's going to be 'strutting' by those who won, who will continue to try to beat us all into submission. There's going to be media on both sides blaming the other, telling us how angry and despaired we should be feeling.
But it is eventually going to get better. It will take time, and importantly, it will take effort. We tried hoping people would listen to common sense, and it failed. So we pick up and do something else.
Let's continue the real. In RL I am not as impacted as my friends are. Yet I am despairing for them. But as a good friend of mine said 'I'm a middle-aged white guy...I haven't earned the right to despair. I do have the duty to be a rock for my vulnerable friends though, and that's what I'm going to focus on.'
I want to be that rock, not just for my online friends, but to help make a difference SOMEWHERE. Enough people making differences means forward movement. I want the world to know that we will not go softly into this goodnight. There are good people whose hope has been broken, and that's just what the bullies, the Karens, the fascists want. They want us to to roll over and just accept things the way they are. Make things easy for them.
Let's not give them what they want. It will be exhausting to fight - I am not going to lie - but I would rather be exhausted in doing good for those who need it, rather than be exhausted by despair and worry.
So I open the comments and invite people to share their inspirations, their convictions, and their suggestions for how best to spend that energy to help inoculate us in the next few years, and lay the framework for REAL improvement.
Let's make positive movement forward. Let's not give up. I have your back, if you have mine.
And the real is that - things are going to suck. A downward wave. My last post was just me vomiting out the sheer choking negativity, and getting it out of my system. This morning I feel... more like a blank slate. And I want to take advantage of that.
Honestly? It is going to get worse before it gets better. There is going to be a lot of doomsaying. There's going to be 'strutting' by those who won, who will continue to try to beat us all into submission. There's going to be media on both sides blaming the other, telling us how angry and despaired we should be feeling.
But it is eventually going to get better. It will take time, and importantly, it will take effort. We tried hoping people would listen to common sense, and it failed. So we pick up and do something else.
Let's continue the real. In RL I am not as impacted as my friends are. Yet I am despairing for them. But as a good friend of mine said 'I'm a middle-aged white guy...I haven't earned the right to despair. I do have the duty to be a rock for my vulnerable friends though, and that's what I'm going to focus on.'
I want to be that rock, not just for my online friends, but to help make a difference SOMEWHERE. Enough people making differences means forward movement. I want the world to know that we will not go softly into this goodnight. There are good people whose hope has been broken, and that's just what the bullies, the Karens, the fascists want. They want us to to roll over and just accept things the way they are. Make things easy for them.
Let's not give them what they want. It will be exhausting to fight - I am not going to lie - but I would rather be exhausted in doing good for those who need it, rather than be exhausted by despair and worry.
So I open the comments and invite people to share their inspirations, their convictions, and their suggestions for how best to spend that energy to help inoculate us in the next few years, and lay the framework for REAL improvement.
Let's make positive movement forward. Let's not give up. I have your back, if you have mine.
We all need to stick together and do what we can to make things better.
Solidarity