I shared this on my Indivisible thread. It's so profound.
I've bathed in outrage for decades and only now am I actually taking action. (At prompting from all of my wonderful new inputs here on Substack and my newly-joined activism groups)
The action is what I should have been doing all along... but I'm in now, and I'm fired up. There seem to be a lot of us all of a sudden.
“The Outrage Spiral” is spot on, especially: If Trump vanished tomorrow, the underlying cultural sickness — wired for outrage, addicted to echo chambers, quick to justify the unjustifiable for “our side” — would still be here. It would just find a new avatar.
That’s the crux. Everyone is focused on the person, not recognizing he’s just exploiting the vulnerabilities that have been in the system all along. I’m working on “The Hero Trap” right now which views this, but from the other side.
I shared this on my Indivisible thread. It's so profound.
I've bathed in outrage for decades and only now am I actually taking action. (At prompting from all of my wonderful new inputs here on Substack and my newly-joined activism groups)
The action is what I should have been doing all along... but I'm in now, and I'm fired up. There seem to be a lot of us all of a sudden.
Thanks for the intellectual clarity.
Very much aligned in spirit with my essay The Outrage Spiral if you want to check it out.
“The Outrage Spiral” is spot on, especially: If Trump vanished tomorrow, the underlying cultural sickness — wired for outrage, addicted to echo chambers, quick to justify the unjustifiable for “our side” — would still be here. It would just find a new avatar.
That’s the crux. Everyone is focused on the person, not recognizing he’s just exploiting the vulnerabilities that have been in the system all along. I’m working on “The Hero Trap” right now which views this, but from the other side.