Brilliant... Say, Mr. Moxon, is it possible that part of the issue is that the so called democracy crystallized within a community which was supremacist (american exceptionalism), authoritarian, and insurrectionist (against Britain) ....
Recognizing the truth of what you're saying comes with bottomless terror. We don't know what to do. We're untrained and untested. We want the ship to right itself. We fall in desperate love with anecdotes about this one guy or that one woman who sat down with a Trumper and talked him out of it, because one whiff of hope that a pit viper really does want to learn to cuddle will allow us a night's sleep.
I think we need to adjust to the idea that safety and certainty are not an option, regardless.
So much passivity is fed by fear, or at least by the hope that saying nothing will prevent the world from turning upside down — but this is an adversary that is determined to create conflict and upheaval.
Brilliant... Say, Mr. Moxon, is it possible that part of the issue is that the so called democracy crystallized within a community which was supremacist (american exceptionalism), authoritarian, and insurrectionist (against Britain) ....
You've pretty much nailed it.
Now what?
Recognizing the truth of what you're saying comes with bottomless terror. We don't know what to do. We're untrained and untested. We want the ship to right itself. We fall in desperate love with anecdotes about this one guy or that one woman who sat down with a Trumper and talked him out of it, because one whiff of hope that a pit viper really does want to learn to cuddle will allow us a night's sleep.
Now what?
I think we need to adjust to the idea that safety and certainty are not an option, regardless.
So much passivity is fed by fear, or at least by the hope that saying nothing will prevent the world from turning upside down — but this is an adversary that is determined to create conflict and upheaval.
Yeah, caught 2 minutes after sending. Thanks for the heads up.