Thread by @JuliusGoat

STREETS

This is not the explanation of an expert. This is the confession of a fool.

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In the months after the 2016 election, still reeling from the permanent demolition of the reality I'd known, I wrote an essay called Sky. It was my lament. armoxon.com/2017/01/sky.ht…

Near the end of the first year, I posted Bubbles, about a nation I’d failed to see, the terrible lies it has been founded upon, the spiritual desire of such terrible lies, and what I perceive as our role, which is to live as good stories, as works of art. armoxon.com/2017/08/bubble…

Here, then, is the next one.

It’s the thing that comes at the end of my four-year revelation of American menace and cruelty. I’m calling it "Streets."

I'll post them as they're ready.

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I don’t know what it’s about yet, other than that, like those that came before, it’s about where I’ve arrived, and how we got here, and where I think we should go from here, if we're interested in survival as a nation and a species—an open question, I realize.

The things I’ll be saying are things I’ve learned recently, but they aren’t things recently true. Only my awareness is new. Others have known all these things for a long time—their whole lives. They’ve been telling us about it all along, too, and we haven’t heard until recently.

We? I. I haven’t heard until recently.

Heard? Listened.

I have to conclude we haven’t wanted to know.

We? I.

If you’re one who has been wise to these matters your whole life, I hope my words honor your experience, and I apologize for all the ways they will fail.

If you’re a fool like me, still reeling even four years later from new knowledge of old truths long known, this is for you. I’m hoping to put words to how my frame has moved over four years—about what is broken, and how healing could occur.

Three years ago, I wrote that you don’t move people’s frame through argument or debate, but by telling stories.

I still believe that.

Let me tell you two stories; Here, and Now.

PART I - HERE

We know things about ourselves we hate to know, but there’s no going back. There are two questions we have to face, now that we have this knowledge.

The first question is about knowledge and confession.

It’s this: How did we get here?

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