We’re deeper into that terrible chapter of a history textbook where a bajillion simultaneous events pile up that you’re certain are related somehow but can never quite sort out.
One day someone will ask me What Were You Doing When & my answer is just going to be baffled stares.
One day someone will ask me What Were You Doing When & my answer is just going to be baffled stares.
I went deep into US history as a teenager in that intense focus of sharing a hobby with a puppylove crush. I specialized in journalism of the Gilded Era because of course.
TeenageMika did NOT understand it’d feel this overwhelming to live through unending blatant corruption.
TeenageMika did NOT understand it’d feel this overwhelming to live through unending blatant corruption.
And I can’t even look to history to get a sense of how any other societies weathered a climate that kept changing and escalating into faster & faster punches of disaster.
We have no precedent & I’d really be fine if we could just not, thanks?
We have no precedent & I’d really be fine if we could just not, thanks?
Societies are only stable when we have faith the next generation will have better lives. We’ll tolerate a lot of bullshit for The Kids.
Part of building a better future is to imagine & believe in it, but we really need to hustle on action to justify that faith. Or eat the rich.
Part of building a better future is to imagine & believe in it, but we really need to hustle on action to justify that faith. Or eat the rich.
Q: But what about THIS climate event written history? Surely it’s our historical precedent!
A: My dudes (sigh), I might be gentle if you wanna compare Younger Drydas, but otherwise you’re painfully underestimating the rate of change.
See also:
A: My dudes (sigh), I might be gentle if you wanna compare Younger Drydas, but otherwise you’re painfully underestimating the rate of change.
See also:
