Writer, opera singer, actor and director, arts advocate. Autodidact. Recovering brand designer and advertising creative director. Former drag queen, househead, club kid. Generally lost at all times.
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Last Notes npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I keep talking about how we have to find a place for the paleofascists when all of this is said and done, largely because I don't support pogroms even for paleofascists and, well, that means we have to find a place them. 🤷♂️ npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The trick neofascists played convincing a whole bunch of otherwise good people that their closed minds and extremist, destructive policies were actually "moderate" and "pragmatic" is really one of the most brilliant applications of fascist strategy I've ever heard of. That even today, after its been exposed multiple times for what it is, the acculturation still holds for many of them, just shows how powerful neofascist cultural tech really is. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Time for Bernie to retire npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Pete Buttigieg is the fascist you should be *afraid* of, because if he becomes President and decides to disappear you, nobody will know it was him or the Feds. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Revoking passports is why passports shouldn't exist, just like "individual sanctions" are why the global banking system shouldn't exist. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I mean, look at artists like Kaytranada and AG Cook and Doechii and Kendrick Lamar and Doja Cat, among dozens of incredible musicians producing and performing original music in the electronic, hip hop and house music categories, and it's hard to conclude that "mainstream music composition" is "stagnating". npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The funniest part of the shooting at the WHCD is that Trump is going to be super disappointed when his approvals don't go up and the recession still happens. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I don't think Western governments and media establishments understand how much credibility they've lost through their entirely uncritical support for Israel, or how durable that loss is going to be for the foreseeable future. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Neurodivergent people are begging you to understand that your normally-functioning brain is a *blessing* gurl npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John If the cognitive effects of LLM use turn out to be real, and recovery requires treatment, I could see this entire push to shove LLMs down employees' throats becoming a serious legal liability around workplace injury. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Also occurs in kids at the same rate as in adults: ~20-30% chance per infection (depending on definition of symptoms and study) npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Every time I see an announcement of a mass firing as just business-as-usual I remember being a kid in the 80s watching PBS News Hour and seeing CEOs get called before Congress and grilled for firing like 500 people. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/116/409/102/894/258/211/original/83edfdac643ab967.mp4 npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116375194345663426 npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John RE: https://fediscience.org/@FerRacimo/116375195712630051 npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Maybe this will help. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Got my first "AI is going to revolutionize the world" dude to that thread from yesterday. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John But that's not even the most planet-destroying liberal thing about Scott Jensen's takes on "AI" discourse on Mastodon: npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Scott Jensen's concern, in a nutshell, is the abuse and harrassment that AI propagandists have to face here, on Mastodon. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John To a liberal, "reasonableness" isn't a practice, a function of critical thinking, or even the result of a well considered heuristic. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I screenshot this because I don't have the energy to throw myself into a pit of half-braindead liberal vipers this morning. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Any analysis of what's happening that takes it as a matter of fact that the Democrats are a good alternative, rather than the controlled, diplomatic wing of the same ideology as the GOP (not MAGA; the GOP) is bullshit. It's making a category error. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Of course, all of this is rooted in the origins of the 13 colonies and the European nations we "bought" the rest of the country from, while genociding the First Peoples. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John 4) it was always thus, since the US dragon uncoiled in the 1890s and became the world's largest economy for the first time by disregarding the value of human life and pursuing a cataclysmic industrialization effort npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John As we analyze Trump, we have to consider: npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John My doctor's literally check a website for that. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I do not think prescriptions should exist. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John You know, they got rid of the draft and increased the size of the standing military because after Vietnam they realized that *requiring* the people of the country to fight their wars threatened their ability to transmute what they see as worthless and surplus lives for pretty treasure and imperial dominance, and ultimately would mobilize the vast lazy middle in ways that they couldn't control. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The Culture novels are extraordinary partly because Banks' presentation of the Culture is so nuanced and cynical, but also contains a germ of admiration for its ruthless practicality and confident indifference to most "threats" that aren't actually threats. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Yeah, I'm really at the point where Occam's Razor indicates that we should just assume that vast secret conspiracies of the powerful exist by default, and liberal insistence that they do not exist is literally an op. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Personally, I think politicians like Mamdani, and their families, are explicitly threatened by police when they take office. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John This article literally calls price gouging "seller's inflation" with a straight face and npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John It's easy to make fun of people under 25 for making thrifting and gardening/farming and foraging into pop trends, but to paraphrase my niece: npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Don't forget that Democrats and Republicans both agree that the "solution" is to pump billions in subsidies into private real estate investors and contractors to build, build, BUILD! while at the same time cutting essential regulations that stop houses from falling apart within a decade of when they were built. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John So, the term "micro-aggression" is almost certainly one of those things someone somewhere came up with in a paper that some undergrad seized and started using vernacularly and it's truly an abomination of communication. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John They are not *using* "AI" to attack hospitals, schools, water, etc. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The fact that Democrats have not taken to calling Trump "the Epstein President" is simply further proof that they're a joke as a political party. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I feel like it's important to mention that without guns, currencies are worthless and so is property. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John When I see these arguments I'm like "you're *almost* there!" bc npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The hard part of all of this for many who woke up before MAGA is that while there is an increase in scale and prominence to the depravity you mention, and a marked reduction in deniability or even attempts to deny the atrocities, pretty much all of them were happening every day in the US long before Trump was anything more than a failed real estate developer and a key partner in a vast, secret child rape and blackmailing cabal with members all over the world. (as you know) npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John "the President is going to do a draft" npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Sam Altman: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Every USian needs to reexamine the *why* of our list of adversaries and study the origin of the enmity. For most, it inevitably resolves into a question of capital interests in the US controlling the US government and desiring something in the target nation they are not being allowed to steal. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Iran is the US' enemy because they rebelled against being our client State and took back their oil. A lot like Cuba is the US' enemy because they refused to bend the knee to our capitalist owner/operators. And Venezuela. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John ICE is spending $250 million a day? That's great news. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Even more worrying, according to the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative out of Tulane University, of the 51 million people who have been est to have been infected in 2026 so far, statistically ~20% of those who were infected will now be sick in a way that impacts their day to day lives for more than 12 months (the proscriptive definition of "long COVID") npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Here's the thing: when a government makes something everyone wants to do "illegal" people don't stop doing it; they simply stop regarding the government as a valid arbiter of what's allowable. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Well, the story of the 2020s is that it's basically the decade the Western political class decided that "what people think" and "what we want" didn't have to align at all, because of entrenched structural advantages for the established powers. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The smart move for any competent SE fired bc of LLM-pilling is to start an anti-LLM company that replaces one of the pieces of infra that LLMs are going to FUBAR in the next couple years. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I'm saying put the sick people in masks npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John O, If only there were some cheap, easy to use technology that could protect healthcare workers and their patients from measles! If only we lived during a time in which we could somehow remove the virus from the air we breathe! npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Trump et al.'s lack of curiosity, knowledge, prudence, or strategy, combined with their hubris and worship of supremacy through "hard" power, is what's going to end them before they do anything *but* absolutely kneecap and mortally wound the neofascist State they were trying to replace. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John His incompetence at wielding or even understanding "soft" power or economic power is what makes his insistence at immediately ending our ecumenopoly so foolish. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Yeah, but you gotta get from here to there, is the problem. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Let's not underestimate how much of an ecumenopoly we are. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John European countries aren't afraid of being invaded by the US or wrecked by the US. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I mean, it depends on your definition of "winning" lol npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John ...hand-in-hand with US "hard" power. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I think the US' hard power is, unlike many other Empires in past eras, just as insubstantial as its soft power. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Here's why MAGA (and the US empire) are not long for this world: npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Propaganda is kind of like Miss Cleo telling eager listeners that nothing is possible and the future has been determined by powerful forces over which they have no control. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John This is part of why it's important to point out how incompetent and impotent they are, and how badly they fuck everything up. It's hard to be scared of ridiculous losers; being scared of them is their only really effectively scalable weapon. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John And when they do mention them, it's only to dismiss them as people who will "never participate, so there's no point" in trying to understand them or court them. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John There is an immense group of people in the US who are simply - correctly - divested from the neofascist pseudo-democracy designed to kettle us into an economic ratcheting system that ends with an oligarchy painted over with a thin layer of "self-determination" theatre. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The "half vs half" narrative of USian politics is a damn lie, and it serves the political class and the suborned punditry, and the more we talk about our political situation as "half vs half" more likely we are to find ourselves, despite it not being true, killing each other for no reason either of us can figure out. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I think it's wild that people are like "every one of these people knows *exactly* what's happening and chose this, specifically" about people who are probably the least self-aware and least capable folks in the entire world. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Electoral fuckery already exists in very meticulously hidden ways that cannot survive his dementia-addled, supremacist-driven speedrunning of Naziism. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John There's a reason many US States engage in vote suppression as their preferred method of electoral fraud, and its not because MAGA Secretaries of State don't have the power to seriously fuck with the actual ballots. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I mean, it's not that I don't think they'll try. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The same is true of liberals, though. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John File under: liberals who think ICE cares about what judges think or the law says, after they've flagrantly violated the law, flouted judges orders, and eviscerated the US Constitution for more than a year. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The outrageous speculation by Trump and Bannon et al. about elections is literally, transparently, designed to bamboozle the media into fractal coverage, and liberals into a ineffectual tizzy, that lessens the impact of the revelations in the Epstein files that Trump wasn't just a pedophile rapist - he was also Epstein's business partner. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John My reading of history is different. Repression doesn't work; it merely delays the inevitable, and makes the ultimate social contraction much worse for everyone involved. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John What the political class doesn't seem to understand but anyone with a cursory understanding of history will, is that when populations start protesting and rebelling and demanding change that's your warning shot. It's not the end of the process, it's the beginning. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John People can transpose one thing into another thing, despite those two things having no apparent relationship. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John You know, quantum theory is far more intuitive from a human perspective than materialism ever could be, because the human experience is an exercise in contradictions and opposing yet equally true/likely things, not a top-down causal waterfall like materialists think. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I'm always "surprised" when Mayors and Governors that promise "reform" end up licking the boot within 12 hours of being elected. The gun to their head may be literal or not, but it's there. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Yeah, but it's a common trick in consulting and sales to shape presentations to give clients the *impression* they're making a choice, but actually have all the options essentially be the same program - the one you recommend - only in different forms and inversions. it works like a charm, when you're good at it. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John See this last one is where I disagree. I think psychology is real, and neofascists constructed a psychological kettle that held the population in check, probably better than they could have ever hoped. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John All of this fear that if people showed up open carrying it would devolve into a firefight assumes that ICE is itching for a pitched battle in which their opponents fight back and they gloriously win without incurring even a single injury. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John They also know if "legal observers" also have cadres of heavily armed guardians with them, ICE won't dare to touch them, because *they're pathetic cowards and bullies who value nothing more than their own lives*. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John if you knew how many people have blocked me because I showed up to this argument with receipts lol npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I will never forget how easily liberals sacrificed me for Eggs Benny and a Dave Matthews concert. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Joe Biden, through deliberate public health policy, murdered a million people in the United States, and permanently disabled 6 million more. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I will say that if they had managed to never kill a white person, most of the US probably wouldn't have noticed. Imagine that being the key mistake they made that unravels it all. Smh. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John There's nothing strategic about what the paleofascists are doing: they're literally speedrunning the Cliff's Notes of "Naziism for Dummies" but in the US in 2026 not post-monarchy Germany in the 1920s and 30s. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John In a lot of ways, Minneapolis was the worst place to start this little fascist takeover, because I grew up in the Great Lakes region and the neoliberals never really successfully stamped out the "we're in this together" culture there. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Smacks of "well, if [Black/minority/queer/trans/etc] person hadn't talked back, they wouldn't have gotten shot by the police" bullshit. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Boomers really fucked up when they raised their kids to hate genocide and racism, apparently. "We didn't mean *our* genocides and racism!" they moan regretfully. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I'm over here really wishing we could take "every Republican accusation is a confession or a leak of their plans" from clever aphorism to concrete strategic input upon which we can act urgently and forcefully. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Hypocrisy is boring, sure. But the reason it's boring is that there's no actual commentary on anything substantive when you criticize it. It's morally indifferent. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Like, the job isn't to stand around and tell people not to do anything, despite what Walz seems to think. It's leading a State and protecting its people. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John There's something about how Walz is giving a speech right now but nobody cares because he needs to be in the street or resign. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John Your Local Epidemiologist just sent out a newsletter about "Strengthening Your Immune System" that is essentially a laundry list of all the expected things: herbs, cold plunges, sleep more, etc. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John This was also a thread about why chronically ill and disabled people are absolutely essential members of society who contribute a vital perspective to humankind, and how the ruling class' eugenicist turn is partly about their recognition of this fact and their vile sense of self-preservation at any cost. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John The world has moved forward (as much as they were allowed) and we've stayed put. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John But while I was in the midst of these changes, shit was gnarly. I was anxious as fuck, vigilant, grieving, reluctant, resistant, even reactionary. I wanted stuff to go back and be "simple" again. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John I grew agile at it. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John At 27, I developed three chronic illnesses in the same year. I went from essentially a healthy person to someone who was always, in one way or another, sick. npub1lh2m24523f9xnltzz43dan7q7ufhfrx3hw0ys9spqtz72tsxk9psqkwq3v John This difference between now and the past is why I find arguments that we're living in the 1930s laughable. I think people who see this as the 1930s are actually engaging in cope; any half-serious look at what life was like then, and what geopolitics was like then, very quickly returns a negative match with today.
