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Wait. People are still planning for a future?
Is it so hard to program to have an outline to the letters.
Those in control want us to feel that apathy. I simply cannot feel it because I refuse to let them take away my emotions.
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…all the while being an educator watching chikdren being raised unaware of just all that is going on, thier education at risk every other week trying not to have them affected by wild illegal witholding of funds or witch hunts into best educational practices. We are trachers but must be prepared to defend ourselves, and our students from ICE, terrorists, educational extremists and more.
I work as an office worker at a community center with a youth program that sometimes gets pulled into the “counselor” position when we’re short handed. I can’t understand how the counselor’s stay so motivated to teach the kids anything when I feel like they all know what’s coming and there isn’t any curriculum for us because its after school.
One of the great cruelties of living through ‘interesting times’ is that life still goes on.
Subsistence farmers in Medieval Europe living through countless wars, economic turmoil, and the Black Plague in the 14th century AD still had to get up, sow the fields, secure the granary from vermin, pay their lord’s taxes, etc. No amount of horror stopped life from going on. It just… continues. Same in accounts of civilian life in WW1 and WW2.
There’s no moment where most personal stories turn into a continuous tale of heroic resistance, or of valiant martyrdom. Even the heroes and martyrs have to live day-to-day; it’s just that certain parts of their story are more memorable than others.
I think it bears considering that the farmers’ work was directly connected to their own survival and welfare. They didn’t have to sit through meetings on the Company’s new ”values” or do telemarketing for pump and dump AI or crypto scams, while the world burns.
They may have had it harder, but many of the most sadistic forms of existential anguish, and lack of meaning, had yet to be invented.
Oooooh, just what my existential crisis needed today!
There’s a concept called Hypernormalization that concerns this, here’s an interesting video about it:
And here’s the full documentary that should be mandatory viewing at this point.
I’m not handling it very well.
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I think about farmers who ended up having battles in their fields. And once it was over and if they survived, they had no choice but to put it all back together and keep growing crops.
This is why I constantly tell people to prepare for violent change. Organize with your community, arm yourselves, and prepare for revolution.
