"how did this happen" "whose fault is it" man I don't fuckin care anymore. I think the one thing I know is that the right built parallel institutions—I grew up in them—and the left is doing that too, and now is the time to help, and to welcome the public into them. gonna start with libraries & books
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It won't matter though. The story is written. Left and right will fall, the disengaged will fall. Everyone will suffer. The world we knew is now dying fast.
You can try to survive, but destiny overrules effort.
ok...
But even as a home-brewed perspective, there's a difference between "things could be bad" statements vs. the gradiosity of implying you have the whole picture/can see the future with complete accuracy.
It's that "doomsayer on the streetcorner" rhetorical style
You don't think there is a time and place for the raving man on the corner?
Here is an excellent way to support a community building institution that provides services and education to the public- and your local library is easy to support. Call them and ask for ideas!
Knowledge.
Conversations.
My uncle is involved with one that can get a person food if they need it.
But even as I wrote that, I started to see why they're closing.
I'm not especially naive, btw — just not American.
"C'MON!" I yell, "THIS'LL BE SO MUCH MORE HELPFUL AND CATHARTIC THAN SENDING ME YET ANOTHER 'BOO HOO HOO, SEND US $20' TEXT!"