rothko ☕️ ♏️ on Nostr: i am terrified. i see us tumbling headfirst into a facist dictatorship and everyone ...
i am terrified. i see us tumbling headfirst into a facist dictatorship and everyone keeps thinking "this is fine" until suddenly it's not anymore and then it's too fucking late. even if we manage to vote our way out of this (which i seriously doubt), SCOTUS will find some way to invalidate the whole thing so that the chosen one can return, and he'll make it for good this time. it's already clear they'll do his bidding and they are paving the way right now.
i think about the "tank man" in tiananmen square. there's no fucking way a US tank would stop for anyone these days.
how do we stop/overthrow evil when half the population has had its mind eaten by fox news and qanon etc? when they own guns and the rest of us don't? when we've all been programmed to see each other as the enemy to the point where we'll throw our grandma under the bus if her opinions are out of line?
at my most paranoid, i worry about literal 1984 thought police sometimes. if not literal mindreading, well, my internet history is damning enough in terms of material that some future police state could deem compromising or criminal. "moral terpitude," political leftness, mental illness... then i have vague thoughts about deleting my entire internet presence, but i have to assume that my life and opinions and activities have already been cached somewhere and will be impossible to just magically erase.
yes, previous fascist empires have fallen, but not without great cost. it's gonna get a lot worse before it gets better, assuming it even will.
and i'm sorry i'm so pessimistic -- it's my nature, unfortunately, and this shit just magnifies it a zillion times. i look at the anarchosocialists and the antifa folks out on the streets and part of me wishes i were that brave, but the other part is super cynical, thinking "yeah, good luck with that, y'all..."
i hate to be a downer about all this. but some days i just wake up already anxious about it.
i think about the "tank man" in tiananmen square. there's no fucking way a US tank would stop for anyone these days.
how do we stop/overthrow evil when half the population has had its mind eaten by fox news and qanon etc? when they own guns and the rest of us don't? when we've all been programmed to see each other as the enemy to the point where we'll throw our grandma under the bus if her opinions are out of line?
at my most paranoid, i worry about literal 1984 thought police sometimes. if not literal mindreading, well, my internet history is damning enough in terms of material that some future police state could deem compromising or criminal. "moral terpitude," political leftness, mental illness... then i have vague thoughts about deleting my entire internet presence, but i have to assume that my life and opinions and activities have already been cached somewhere and will be impossible to just magically erase.
yes, previous fascist empires have fallen, but not without great cost. it's gonna get a lot worse before it gets better, assuming it even will.
and i'm sorry i'm so pessimistic -- it's my nature, unfortunately, and this shit just magnifies it a zillion times. i look at the anarchosocialists and the antifa folks out on the streets and part of me wishes i were that brave, but the other part is super cynical, thinking "yeah, good luck with that, y'all..."
i hate to be a downer about all this. but some days i just wake up already anxious about it.