There’s a lot to digest here. The narrative is accurate. The frustration is real. It makes me think about even Jon Stewart yelling and screaming about how this doesn’t make any sense. I think we feel that we need to express ourselves all of us, but we wind up thinking that we’re talking into a void. We aren’t. The challenge is most people don’t know what to do with it. I think writing helps though. You keep writing I’ll keep reading and sharing.
That's such a great response. You are correct… recognizing that despair is a form of certainty, and certainty is unwarranted is key here. To me, RO would be accepting that we might be building for a post collapse reconstruction rather than preventing collapse. That requires a different emotional architecture but it may be necessary… I will ponder this… but I may be stuck…
Yea, I’m not sure if I’m more angry at Congress or at how many people don’t see what these cowards are doing. These Congressional nitwits just had a chance to do the most basic part of their job – decide when the country goes to war – and they ducked it. Instead of insisting that Trump come back to Congress before taking more military action, they voted to let him keep doing it on his own. The Constitution gave that war decision to Congress for a reason: so no single person can drag the country into a conflict without the people’s representatives signing off first.
I don’t actually think people have no idea what to do. They can protest, call their reps, speak out, write… The problem is that too many people aren’t paying attention, or they’ve checked out, while these nitwits quietly give away one of the most basic checks in our system.
Courage Is assigning your name and speaking out where you think there is a wrong. What you do is demonstrate your courage when you write and people who care like me we are watching and we are also writing and we are doing what we can and that is what we can do
I'm still thinking about your piece on ‘optimism’. It is very good. The core insight for me was genuinely deep: cosmic insignificance paired with radical present tense agency… in this context, my anger is just information. It tells me something matters. I am transforming it rather than being consumed by it :-)
There’s a lot to digest here. The narrative is accurate. The frustration is real. It makes me think about even Jon Stewart yelling and screaming about how this doesn’t make any sense. I think we feel that we need to express ourselves all of us, but we wind up thinking that we’re talking into a void. We aren’t. The challenge is most people don’t know what to do with it. I think writing helps though. You keep writing I’ll keep reading and sharing.
Maybe we need to write about radical optimism
That's such a great response. You are correct… recognizing that despair is a form of certainty, and certainty is unwarranted is key here. To me, RO would be accepting that we might be building for a post collapse reconstruction rather than preventing collapse. That requires a different emotional architecture but it may be necessary… I will ponder this… but I may be stuck…
Yea, I’m not sure if I’m more angry at Congress or at how many people don’t see what these cowards are doing. These Congressional nitwits just had a chance to do the most basic part of their job – decide when the country goes to war – and they ducked it. Instead of insisting that Trump come back to Congress before taking more military action, they voted to let him keep doing it on his own. The Constitution gave that war decision to Congress for a reason: so no single person can drag the country into a conflict without the people’s representatives signing off first.
I don’t actually think people have no idea what to do. They can protest, call their reps, speak out, write… The problem is that too many people aren’t paying attention, or they’ve checked out, while these nitwits quietly give away one of the most basic checks in our system.
Courage Is assigning your name and speaking out where you think there is a wrong. What you do is demonstrate your courage when you write and people who care like me we are watching and we are also writing and we are doing what we can and that is what we can do
I'm still thinking about your piece on ‘optimism’. It is very good. The core insight for me was genuinely deep: cosmic insignificance paired with radical present tense agency… in this context, my anger is just information. It tells me something matters. I am transforming it rather than being consumed by it :-)