Thread by @wolfejosh

1/ The good thing about OUTRAGE?

It creates social change in the arc of moral good.
Better it be born in inspiration, than shaped in shame.
(the difference is intrinsic conviction vs extrinsic deference)
But change is change nontheless.

BUT...

2/ Moral movements feel like they move on from one issue to the next faster than we may realize.

Clouds rain down dousing injustice, punishing ills, provoking positive progress and new expectations actualizing OUGHTS to IS’s.

BUT how do winds of change sustain.

Consider:

3/ Several men (rightly) punished in metoo movement are making comebacks under cover of BLM + systematic racism––that the far greater injustice is not gender (where they were pepetrators) but racial discrimination (where they were victims). And they may be. Or it may be a cloak..

4/ There are several ‘bad’ men marching for one cause who have abused, mistreated and systematically suppressed women. But the rightly placed moral outrage of the MeToo movement––for the moment––(maybe) has moved on. Change of course requires constant vigiliance.

Consider also—

5/ Consider...GUNS.

Our collective outrage of innocent children murdered––was a movement a mere spin around the sun ago.

The faces of youth marching for change.
The flood of money for gun laws, background checks, earlier interventions and aid for mental health.

Companies...

6/ Companies were taking stands.
Agitating for constructive change.

TODAY?

Gun sales were up up 80%(!) in May.
Philanthropic giving to anti-gun groups + associated support causes likely down significantly...

“It was so 2019”...

All of which is to say...

7/Sometime soon—another social crisis will come.
We’ll be rightly outraged.
We‘ll take to the streets + demand just change.

Our cascading outrage risks being akin to cresting waves overtaking prior outrage
that gets dissipated and drowned out.

How to SUSTAIN new sea level?