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.
The collective trauma of what’s happened since 2016 still has me reeling, and it also includes deaths and illness in the family. I went through a few years of depression and the realization we are all going to process these seismic changes differently. I think the most important step is to recognize that we have experienced major trauma.
@CanisPundit @evamarie @MLClark
Have you watched The Looming Tower on Hulu? It’s now in our DNA.
@LnzyHou @CanisPundit @MLClark
Darn - I don’t have Hulu.
2016 was my turning point, too, Eva-Marie.
We learned a great deal about even "nice" people in our lives and cultures then. 2016 was also when I decided to start saving to move: the emboldened racism and xenophobia had filtered to Canada, too.
Canis Pundit: Dead on! The rhetoric from the frenzied madness then in attitudes today is a telling sign that we never reckoned with it properly.
Lindsay: Haven't seen it, but it's on the list now. Thanks for the rec!
@LnzyHou @evamarie @MLClark another take on how we got to 9/11: Ghost Wars.
The CIA has three intertwined ways of being: exceptional intelligence gathering, gross incompetence, and extrajudicial fuckery at home and abroad in the name of “national security”.
Reading some Tom Robbins may be better for your spirits though.
@evamarie @MLClark as a society we’re living the unresolved echoes of 9/11.