85 years ago humanity was given a lesson. Unfortunately, it appears it wasn’t fully learned. Therefore humanity has to try to learn it again.
I am reminded that our greatest learning often comes during the darkest times, when we are shaken out of our reality and forced to come to terms with new truths about ourselves. Whether you believe it or not, we chose to come here to the planet to be alive at this time in history. We know that boiling water is more effective at cooking a potato than lukewarm.
I suspect the lesson was well learned 85 years ago. It's no accident that the last people who can remember any of that are now dying. We can learn things well, the hard way or otherwise. Keeping that knowledge, though? That's hard to do. Memory is a muscle. It atrophies.
And we have become so accustomed to a baseline quality of life that minor inconveniences feel like horrors, while actual horrors—masked men killing citizens in the street—get processed as content, as discourse, as something to have opinions about. We've forgotten what it costs to build a society where the government can't just kill you for talking back. We're about to remember.
That is the fear. Canada's north is very close to Greenland. Just sayin'. Meanwhile, should we be living life as if it's 2019? I don't know what else to do, so I'm going to a comedy improv show tonight.
85 years ago humanity was given a lesson. Unfortunately, it appears it wasn’t fully learned. Therefore humanity has to try to learn it again.
I am reminded that our greatest learning often comes during the darkest times, when we are shaken out of our reality and forced to come to terms with new truths about ourselves. Whether you believe it or not, we chose to come here to the planet to be alive at this time in history. We know that boiling water is more effective at cooking a potato than lukewarm.
I suspect the lesson was well learned 85 years ago. It's no accident that the last people who can remember any of that are now dying. We can learn things well, the hard way or otherwise. Keeping that knowledge, though? That's hard to do. Memory is a muscle. It atrophies.
And we have become so accustomed to a baseline quality of life that minor inconveniences feel like horrors, while actual horrors—masked men killing citizens in the street—get processed as content, as discourse, as something to have opinions about. We've forgotten what it costs to build a society where the government can't just kill you for talking back. We're about to remember.
I'm "safely" in Canada and shaking in my boots. You've said it all and said it well. Thank you. Thank you.
First they came for Venezuela…
That is the fear. Canada's north is very close to Greenland. Just sayin'. Meanwhile, should we be living life as if it's 2019? I don't know what else to do, so I'm going to a comedy improv show tonight.