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For when you need validations for your anger

You are angry and anxious because you never agreed

to live in a burning house, while the people who should

care pretend the fire doesn't exit.

Distress is a valid emotional response to injustice.

-Nikita Gill

We're crazy when threatened with reality we don’t like. We magnify small changes as existential threat, while ignoring obvious warnings of real impeding disasters.

So how do we respond to a burning house? Not with passive preaching while holding hands and singing Kumbaya (whatever the hell that means). No, a cultural wide shift has to occur to get our attention. Something big to move us, something shocking.

It's happened before, at the end of the ice age with the Biblical flood. The end of the Bronze age—caused by a combination of geo-political and environmental factors. World War One saw the end of monarchies and so on down the line.

There have been massive changes in the environment in the last 50,000 years that humanity has witnessed and still we survive. Empires have come and gone. Society remakes itself with each upheaval. It looks like we are headed to another change of scenery if history and current events are any indicators.

But fear not gentle reader, not all is doom and gloom. We will prevail. We survived the invention of atomic weapons, now used as geo political bargaining chips instead of lobbing them at each other. We survived the protests of the civil/women/gay rights movement to a more inclusive society. We survived disco, shag carpeting and the internet-- ok we’re still working on that.

My point is, we are a tough lot, communities band together when shit gets real. Compassion is practiced when direct experience requires it.

Now is not the time to think, why bother, there’s nothing I can do and give up in frustration. Go to town hall meetings and tell truth to power, make your voice heard, stand up to the injustice done to the least of us. It seems straightforward but being proactive is empowering because the future is decided by those who show up.