Getting increasingly concerned about recklessness from our govt in confronting Russia, who has the largest nuclear stockpile in the world. The world was already at high risk before Ukraine.
Going to spend today doing what I can to get prepared.
Not trying to make anyone panic, but it's worth spending some time today reading and coming up with a plan. I live exactly five miles from a major airport and if nuclear war went all-out, it's possible I'm in danger.
But even if it DOESN'T go all out...
A nuclear attack just in Ukraine would be a sentinel event in world history and would destabilize everything, from the economy to the international order.
If you thought supply line disruptions from a global pandemic were bad, wait til you see what nuclear war will do
You would like to believe that our leaders have plans for situations like this, but these are...our leaders. The same pompous, small-minded fools who have been making a mess of the US and the world for as long as I've been alive.
If shit gets bad, you're on your own. Guaranteed.
If you guys want, I'll make a thread later about what my research turns up and the precautions that I'm taking. Lmk in the replies.
Would also like to hear if any of you are also making preparations, and what you're reading and doing.
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It's technically true that patriarchy is responsible for the male mental health crisis, and many of men's struggles with emotional vulnerability.
But to put it this way is itself benevolent sexism: it hides the deep emotional and psychological damage done by female aggression.
When women get aggressive, it tends to be social and symbolic, not physical. That is, they tend to attack relationships, rather than bodies - they sabotage bonds, smear reputations, and attempt to damage others' egos - self-relationships - via emotional wounding.
Men are not uniquely victims of this, ofc, women can be especially vicious with one another, as any woman can attest. Intrasexual competition is real, and in many ways, women have unique vulnerabilities to emotional and relational damage, as their power is so linked to the social
After I healed the cognitive damage from PTSD last year, I still had a lot of bitterness and obsessive anger, every day, for months on end.
I was recently able to heal that emotional damage with an imagination technique I call The Ideal Apology.
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Here's what I did: I imagined the person who hurt me - in this case, an abusive ex-girlfriend - sitting across from me, in the greatest detail I could stably muster.
Then, I imagined her apologizing - expressing sincere remorse - for every fucked up thing she did and said.
I imagined that I told her everything. I told her all of the pain I had gone through, all of the damage she had done, the wreckage she left in my life.
I imagined her hearing it, holding space for it, accepting it, and - crucially -
taking responsibility for her part.
I believe mercy, forgiveness and tolerance are only virtues if you offer them to your enemies, and when it's most difficult to do so. Otherwise they mean nothing.
If you believe that too, I would love if you'd follow my acct.
I always thought getting ratioed would be terrible but I'm having the time of my life, this is the finest possible hill to die on, thank you all so much
I promise I will read each and every reply but I'll only interact if you appear developmentally capable of nuance
I stopped reading the news with any regularity about 2 years ago now, and it's one of the best decisions I've ever made tbh
If something actually big happens, it breaks through and people talk about it
But lately, I feel the pull of old attachments to ideas and ideologies
I haven't been meditating as regularly lately, I've been working early and haven't noticed a major change by doing it less, so I haven't sweated it too much
I wonder if this desire to get swept up again in the dream of culture is a result of that.
There's another part of me, definitely fueled by Twitter, that wants to start writing longform again.
For me, writing flows out of passion, and when I am practicing diligently and focusing close to home, and purposefully not attaching to my passions, it makes it pretty hard.
Today, I'm thinking about change, about resolutions, about desire, about the reinvention of self, about integrity, shame and faith.
I wrote this thread about it, and I'd be honored if you'd read it. 🙏
After 8 years of mindfulness practice, I am still struck by how little I am capable of consciously controlling.
My mind has a small influence over my body, my body has a small influence over my environment.
My conditioning, intrinsic and extrinsic, rules my behavior.
As I go about the tasks of life, each moment pulls hidden dreams, desires and scars from my situation and my unconscious, up into swells of ego that rise, crest and fall again into negation.
I am just surfing, self after momentary self, with whatever grace & skill I can muster