The greatest gift in season 2 of @WestworldHBO so far, for me, is Maeve's response to Dolores' rebellion: "And let me guess: yours is the only way to fight?" I think back to it almost every day.
This world is so full of conflict, it's easy to forget that we built it on love, on kindness, on the stories we told one another for hundreds of thousands of years.
We (rightly, don't get me wrong) point out how evil acts are slowly being used to normalize evil so that the envelope can be pushed, the Overton window shoved, and more and more freedoms taken from us all. Do we spend enough time on the opposite, though?
It's hard to think of fighting as anything other than violent, but when we fight cancer, we do so with precision and science. When we fight depression, we do so with love and compassion. When we fight loneliness, we do so…together.
How you fight against the darkness is your choice. But if we only fight with fire, not also with love and compassion, then fire is the only thing that's normalized at all.
If we only fight for our future with fire, then whether we win or lose, the future burns. 
