Complete Fucking Powerlessness...
I know you're feeling it because increasingly, almost everyone on the planet is feeling something similar.
When something becomes this widespread, it's important we talk openly about how we're each experiencing it—and often.
We also need to remind one-another frequently of how unusual (absurd, lampoonish, harmful...) this all is.
Also...👇
Disempowered rage is very real (even for people without those words) and we all need better outlets for it.
It's toxic, we're collecting more by the day, it's and it's gotta go somewhere.
Shouted fuck-words sometime feel like the best we can do, but they fast prove fleeting and inert.
With increasing urgency, those outlets need a focal point, and it must be generative.
It's become clear that—excepting a few dozen Americans—nearly everyone has great reasons to be pissed.
But staying pissed for too long is exhausting and we'll never survive it.
Instead, consider something totally different ...
The Coherence Party
The world—especially of, for, and by Americans—sucks in new ways lately, but it's not immutable.
We could ask who truly perceives useful distinctions inside of America's political duopoly, but only the idiots and assholes would be raising hands because it's become clear:
- Both Team 1 and Team 2 need the other as theatrical opposites,
- neither are committed to bold courageous action,
- both get bribed lobbied by the exact same people regardless,
Any any feeling of contrast exists at all, it's merely because one group now features their depravity as a selling point while their counterpart shamelessly tries to conceal it.
That's why we need YOU to imagine new things, especially if you have(n't) been paying attention lately.
Blue team, red team, purple team, green team— None of today's political structures are capable of building our most excellent future.
To torture a metaphor, our figurative ball game will always blow chunks if we never consider leaving the pitted and pock-marked gravel pit some people try to call a field.
[elaboration forthcoming]
No matter, the slow march of armageddon moves ceaselessly forward...
And what especially sucks is that it's not even the cool Bruce Willis / Liv Tyler kind. 👎
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