Some friends mentioned planning a vacation. Asked if we wanted to come along. And it gave me vertigo.
"shouldn't we be doing... something else?"
"what do you mean?"
Apparently not everyone is living with uncertainty at the moment. I am thinking what if we need every spare penny we have to move, or mitigate some disaster? Or to try to help people doing the same?
I tried to articulate this in a reasonable way.
"You can't stop living because of an election."
IDK. I think I may well.
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@futurebird I feel this.
I was texting with a very close friend for the first time since the election, expressing how upsetting the results were for me, and his response was along the same […]
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I despise the insistence so many people place on normalizing everything. "You can't stop living because of covid" literally killed millions. "You can't stop living because of […]
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I'm all for not stopping living life.
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I feel this dichotomy strongly too. A turbo version of the pandemic denial dichotomy. Could that have primed us for this utter intellectual inertia?
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@futurebird Vacation? Only if I can do it so that the fash don't get my dollars. So... probably not.
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