Many of us have been beaten over the head in recent years, being lectured, scolded, or wokesplained in one manner or another, that you cannot infer qualities or status of the macro based on the micro. Yeah, I think it’s safe to say all but the youngest and most special people among us understand that now. Thoroughly.
But taken too far, this sort of lecturing tends to encourage one to deny their own eyes, and deny their own experiences. But aren’t one’s “truth” and lived experience sacrosanct these days? I guess it depends on if such truth and experience is socially congruent (but who defines what is socially congruent?). There seems to be a dense, but obscure haze of rules floating about the zeitgeist, nigh indecipherable at times. I suspect this dense haze of rules can be useful for some—should anyone figure out how to manipulate it, they could be pretty powerful and pull off some frighteningly effective and horrifying Orwellian tricks on a lot of people.
I like my zeitgeist clear, sunny, and easy to navigate. Let’s let some sunlight in. So I’m going to generalize, being extremely confident in my gut and the statistical likelihood a ton of other people feel similar to me.
We’re in a tinderbox. It’s painfully obvious to me, and unless you’re a homeowner with a good job, you probably feel it too. That feeling has not been alleviated for a few years now, and seems to be increasing in severity.
Even I am tempted to radicalize and I don’t like radicals, nor violence. In democracies, we are supposed to fix our problems otherwise the politicians get blamed and thrown out. But little has been fixed, and many of the same politicians remain.
If only we could see things more clearly.
Happy Thursday.
[No time for tech nostalgia today :(]