how we survive _this_

“The challenge to all of us is to live a revolution, not to die for one. There has been too much killing, and the weapons are now far too terrible. This revolution has to change consciousness, to upset the injustice of our current hierarchy by refusing to honor it, and to live a life that enforces a new social justice.

Because the truth is none

What you are feeling right now, be it volcanic anger or exhaustion or guilt or confusion or incapacitation isn’t just real, it is sacred. It is your heart reacting, in any number of ways, to its own sudden expansion. You are feeling something deeply, and it may or not yet be pulling you in a clear direction, but in either case it is a gorgeous

it doesn’t actually work on an entire society, not forever, because even thought we are an imperfect species, and even though we can and are acculturated towards terror, it takes so much effort to smother every single part of yourself, save for the venomous bits.

we will win, because our hearts may be breaking in a million pieces, but they are not quiet.

The problem is, as we’re forced to decamp from this previously comfortable but now collapsing and sham-y old “normal”, it doesn’t seem that anyone has set up a new normal for us to land in. There’s not even interim accommodation!

A collapsing complex system can only be met with a complex, emergent hive-mind response. It’s somewhat good to know that centralised leadership is not appropriate, no? What we need, instead, is for everyone to just…get radicalised…and show up… chaotically…all at once…caring the bejesus out of the situation…and normalising resistance.

We can declare that it’s all “quite complicated”. Or we can allow our minds to be blown. We can join the Great Radicalised Together.