Thread by @SarahTheHaider

I have a reputation among some as being nuanced and even-handed and sometimes I feel pressure to maintain this reputation and not say what I feel is true.

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I think I do a good job at resisting this pressure, but part of that resistance is being honest and public about its existence and potential influence on my public activism - so here it is folks.

More recently I’ve been unusually distressed and pessimistic about our overall state of affairs. I am happy and content with my private life, so I feel confident that this distress is a response to externalities rather than some personal psychic disturbance

I think it would be dishonest to force myself to maintain an attitude of dispassionate equanimity when both observation and reason make a powerful case that our predicament does not warrant such an approach

And indeed if my understanding is correct on where we are headed it would also be uncaring, self-interested and cowardly

So I simply have to accept that a loss in social status and esteem is in my immediate future.

Thankfully any that I may have I never expected nor desired so that should ease the loss.