I know I think differently than most folks but I think I'm shocked at the gap between how I figured things were going with this election and what happened. I am overwhelmed at the magnitude of the choices made and what it says about my fellow citizens.
It feels vaguely matrix like. Suddenly the world doesn't feel like the world I know, and even more divorced from the basic standards of decency and rationality that I thought were here.
My old normal feels strangely performative and shallow.
@NiveusLepus From a 30,000-foot historical perspective, we are seeing the massive social upheavals that have always followed a plague. (Doesn’t make anything better, I know.) The huge covid disruption turbocharged some trending social changes throughout the world, plus made everyone paranoid and distrustful, which is typical of a plague response. If we have more plagues (bird flu, feline covid), we are going to see the world’s societies altered permanently.
@lifeinthePNW That's a fascinating way of looking at it.