I wrote this essay about vulnerability in part because there is vast gulf between recognizing our mutual vulnerability as a path toward solidarity and the soul-sucking, solidarity-destroying, FAFO dunking I'm seeing so much of these days. More of the former, none of the latter, please!
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Lydia Polgreen
I wrote about my feelings. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
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We’re playing with matches.
Yup. It's gonna be bad, the only question on the table is how bad is it gonna be? I'm an optimist by nature, but I am very pessimistic now for our country. Very pessimistic.
You write “America is about to undergo a radical course of treatment”. I fear 🍊👿 is just using us to make money for himself and his cronies. There is no treatment, no plan, other than sucking up money.
It made my day here in 🇫🇷 where we ache for our fellow American humanist democrats.
Courage in adversity!
So yeah, FAFO IS an appropriate response -- because it might just work.
“The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” Isaac Asimov.