Resisting moves toward comfort
It's February 2025. Real-time genocide has been ongoing in Gaza (though there was news of a ceasefire recently - perhaps). The photo above was taken in Chicago--the Trump Tower looming large just after Donald was elected President of the United States yet again. Alt-right politics and polarity are dominating public discourse. Fires have just ravaged much of California and the glaciers are all melting at unprecedented speed. It seems like another pandemic-y virus might be ramping up to spread world-wide. Hate speech is now unregulated on most social media platforms, and an all-out assault is being waged on anything related to equity, diversity, or inclusion. This sounds like a old-time country music song writ large. I admit to engaging in the following cycle that has been precipitated by world events: (a) doom-scrolling or reading the news, (b) fretting and agonizing, and then (c) turning away to do something mindless. Here's how it looks s...