19| a manifesto: dear internet friends, I’m burning alive.
The intersecting catastrophes unspooling all around us don’t offer an escape from reality, but an intensification of it. So we have a choice: (1) Accept this reality. Accept the full toxic soup of conditions we’ve put ourselves in, as well as the thick, messy, profoundly human dramas playing out amidst it. And awaken to the burdens — of grief,
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The other day I half-woke from a nap and scribbled down the line: “the normalization and curation of collapse.”
It’s about the ways the over-culture, celebrities, politicians, the wealthy are pretending everything is normal. While we watch a holocaust livestream into our psyches, they churn out albums and merch about the show of it all.