I reacted to the election news not too dissimilarly, with this feeling of, "REALLY??! Y'all just GAVE up, said, "F**K IT!!!", and just decided to FLIP the TABLE??!! Similar sense of "Game Over, man! Game over!"
Then I walked around for a day or so additionally depressed because I finally realized that the people who voted that way truly don't feel things the same way. They're not hyper sensitive, or don't have issues with taking a long time to 'get over' unpleasant... affect. They also simply may not care about / not dwell on or even notice the myriad tragedies (most often to the unlucky 'outliers') resulting from these little historical nexus type of points, and/or they compartmentalize expertly. In other words...the stakes for them this election weren't high, and they feel no angst. (BTW; not even implying that anyone feeing angst is 'better', or that those who don't...are 'worse'. Just that they are relatively LUCKY, in this reality of ours.
I wonder if I were luckier if I would be so dense? I hope not, but who can say?
Knowing that the shit gets weirder soon (really? We're going to take over the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada with our military? REALLY!?!?!) I've been taking the last few weeks to just breathe as best I can.
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Then I walked around for a day or so additionally depressed because I finally realized that the people who voted that way truly don't feel things the same way. They're not hyper sensitive, or don't have issues with taking a long time to 'get over' unpleasant... affect. They also simply may not care about / not dwell on or even notice the myriad tragedies (most often to the unlucky 'outliers') resulting from these little historical nexus type of points, and/or they compartmentalize expertly. In other words...the stakes for them this election weren't high, and they feel no angst. (BTW; not even implying that anyone feeing angst is 'better', or that those who don't...are 'worse'. Just that they are relatively LUCKY, in this reality of ours.
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Knowing that the shit gets weirder soon (really? We're going to take over the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada with our military? REALLY!?!?!) I've been taking the last few weeks to just breathe as best I can.
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