PacificNic on Nostr: I'll never forget that feeling from the beginning of the pandemic that a better world ...

I'll never forget that feeling from the beginning of the pandemic that a better world was possible. People had a moment to breathe and they started making changes. They quit their jobs, left toxic relationships, moved cities or left the city, relearned forgotten skills from generations past, and started to question their institutionally approved goals and values.

It scared the shit out of people in power, which is why they have been weaponizing our emotions and breaking and hardening our hearts ever since.

We have an instinct to protect the community and the system has been trying to degrade that instinct for decades with sophisticated propaganda, but the good side of people is still there. We just need a pause.

The good part of us is battered and bruised, but not yet dead. I don't think people forget. I think they've seen that something is wrong and that we could do better.

I think there's still hope.