It's “the visceral sense of waking up in an alternate timeline with a deep, bodily knowing that something isn’t right – but having no clear idea how to fix it"
I resonate with this on every level. That feeling has haunted me since childhood. I grew up in the 'comfort' world of postwar West Germany.🪞
There was always a silence underneath the silence. A kind of inherited dissonance – the knowing that horror once wore the mask of normality. Maybe that's why I've never been able to fully trust the surface of things.
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It’s the background hum in a civilization learning limitless communication while its people are forgetting how to authentically listen, feel and see, speak, and act accordingly.
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This piece has describes precisely how I've been feeling, how things have looked all around me. This is the first time in....ever?....I have read something to fully articulate what has been to me, so far, indescribable. The distance ban how I feel and seeing ppl just...carry on? it doesn't feel ok..
And I have to add, the first thing I saw this morning was trump EO from yesterday to completely overhaul the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. My heart has been pounding reading through it and I keep thinking: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? Am I the one that's nuts? No. No I am not.
I'm pretty sure if a nuclear war blew away the capitol and resulted in a gigantic EMP blast severing communications and taking down telecommunications I'd still be expected to pay my bills the Monday after next, so it's like.
The ongoing and ignored pandemic really cemented this concept in my mind, and while that wasn't the beginning of this era of U S. HN it's like it opened the floodgates for HNing on all the axes
Most of us are just surviving on a daily basis. The people with power are doing nothing because for the most part it doesn't affect them, and if it does it's only tangentially. The quote "they came for the socialists and I didn't speak up etc." aptly applies.
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I resonate with this on every level. That feeling has haunted me since childhood. I grew up in the 'comfort' world of postwar West Germany.🪞
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Actually very logical and thus: depressing.