It's coming down to the wire and we need to get our head in the game or we're heading for a total collapse. Extremeists don't make good decisions. If we don't get our head in the game and play to win, unite against fascism and authoritarianism... It shouldnt be at this point, but here we all are. Distractions abound in the crab bucket, but on the ground, unionization and workers rights are making some headway. The writers strike, the actors strike, even the game insdustry hopefully the less new distractions will be a benefit to sanity. People can start trying to wake up before we end up being Earth X
Things are coming to a head. the one thing we cant afford is doomerism and infighting drama. Teams are things that children play at to prepare them to be soldiers. Teams play to win. Somehow the alt right seems better at team building than a bunch of ideological purity bickering for clout. Even though they do that too. I see more and more the wisdom in the philosophy of know thy enemy. Unfortunately the American People by and large don't understand who and what their true enemies are.
They're looking down and next door when they should be looking up past the "Dream". Being easily distracted and fearful seems a tragic reason to lose everything, but then no less tragic than doomerism, or trying to exploit it towards one's personal gain. Delusional to expect an uncaring corrupted system to care about a single cog and wheel just because it does what its "supposed" to. The best tool in the tool box is still just a tool, to be used until broken or replaced by a shinier tool. Sentiment is discouraged as folly and sissy stuff. No exceptions...
It wont be romantic or glorious.
It'll be traumatic and like watching kaiju fight.
No one would win except the MIL
and whatever eats our collected remains.
The stakes have literally never been higher.
People are exhausted people are tired and burned out distracted or outright mad.
People are desperate and getting more so.
And one way or another desperate people form into something or get formed into something.
There is of course the tone of news and how doom sells papers and subscriptions, but there's enough things happening all over at once. A little "skirmish" here "a tiny battle" over there. wars are made up tiny engagements as well as big battles, none of it is glorious. Too many here have no concept of that. And there has been a big chunk of change spent marketing lack of empathy as desirable and strong for a long time on all sides of the gender euqation and across economic lines. A team cant function if everyone is only out for themselves. A team that can't function cannot achieve victory. Outside of sports metaphor, that gets people killed. All people really have is our ability to come together and unite against a common foe, be that foe physical mental spiratual or natural, people like forming communities. They will literally form a community over ANYTHING regardless of how ridiculous. From a marketing perspective, people don't know what they want they want what they know, they care about putting a man on the moon only in so far as it makes their lives better in some measurable way. Or gives them a catchy point to bitch about when those same miracles of technolgy become mundane and therefore tedious. People have evolved to become more social not less, its in all the data everything reflects this, and yet a small minority ideology of hate has somehow caught fire along side a cynical not even accpetance but acceleration of defeat. It's madness plain and simple. It's madness to just plow sand on the beach over what, the meaningless fleeting satisfaction of being able to say I told them so right before everything goes tragic and chaotic...no one ever dies quick or clean as they hope they do save for those few blessed souls who die during an orgasm. There are some things money can't buy. For everything else there's getting our shit together before its too late.
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