Thanks for this! As someone who writes quite a bit, I find it astounding how many workarounds people who want to be "a writer" flail about to avoid writing! Really it's rather absurd, especially given how unglamorous writing really is! With tongue in cheek I like to imagine switching out "writer" with "tree climber" and asking my imagined opposite, "when was the last time you climbed a tree?" That said, I would raise a glass of hard cider at the Tree-Climber's Bar!
As for the events of 1/06, I've not yet heard a coherent description of what people wanted to achieve with the dramatic acts of the day. Personally, I found it appalling in the sense that I have strong populist sympathies which I now find much more difficult to express. In fact, the events mirror the BLM movement from my perspective eerily: I have strong sympathies for urban brown people who struggle under a clearly rigged system. I've lived in New Orleans and everyone there knows about Angola State Prison where black inmates pick cotton under the lash to this day. And yet with enough incoherent violence I no longer could express my sympathies, and it seems that at least some segment of populism is taking the same sort of nosedive.
In a certain sense though these political problems are a blessing for me: my own unified will could never find expression in either political camp and to see them degrade so quickly has convinced me more than anything else that spiritual priorities and political actualities simply don't mix well.
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Date: 2021-01-08 11:12 am (UTC)As for the events of 1/06, I've not yet heard a coherent description of what people wanted to achieve with the dramatic acts of the day. Personally, I found it appalling in the sense that I have strong populist sympathies which I now find much more difficult to express. In fact, the events mirror the BLM movement from my perspective eerily: I have strong sympathies for urban brown people who struggle under a clearly rigged system. I've lived in New Orleans and everyone there knows about Angola State Prison where black inmates pick cotton under the lash to this day. And yet with enough incoherent violence I no longer could express my sympathies, and it seems that at least some segment of populism is taking the same sort of nosedive.
In a certain sense though these political problems are a blessing for me: my own unified will could never find expression in either political camp and to see them degrade so quickly has convinced me more than anything else that spiritual priorities and political actualities simply don't mix well.