Listened to an episode of This American Life today that reflects on the shock of realizing that one is unprepared for what's already happened.
That's a good way of describing a lot of what we're moving through.
When pandemic started, we realized that we're going to need years to recover from the socio-psychological damage.
In these last two years of war, amid the rising threat of anti-democratic nationalisms & the blatant failures of climate crisis response...
We're gonna need a bigger boat.
@MLClark I’ve long wrestled with Lenny Bruce saying “The truth is what is, not what should be. What should be is a dirty lie.” If not should be, could be is necessary. Getting lost in could be, is living in denial of what is. I suggest that or just good old tuning out what is is what leaves people unprepared.