One of my goals since a few months into Covid was to not let the absurdity of this event dominate my life, or the lives of my family. Clearly it is a disaster and an enormous failing of ethics and integrity - but we would not become bitter or vengeful. Like you, Matt, we just opted out. I’m still mad at all the forces swirling around us and letting that anger out is cathartic, but I will not let it define me.
I am struggling with this same ambivalence. I am a recently former Democrat who lives in a deep blue state. I blame the progressive left for most of the Covid overkill and associated harms to my loved ones. With good cause, I believe.
Problem is, I now can't help but see stupidity, dishonesty and corruption in nearly everything the progressive left says and does. It's awkward, because I am surrounded by people who fancy themselves progressives and believe their progressivism puts them on some kind of higher moral plane. They seem to believe very genuinely that progressives' ostensibly noble intentions excuse all their backfired policies and resulting damage.
I didn't used to be overtly political. I'd love to leave my antipathy towards progressives behind and get "back to normal." But what is that now? So much has changed. And it seems like these people are just getting started at making the world a worse place.
Well said Matt! The team-reality friends I found on Twitter got me through the darkest days of covid RESPONSE. But, I'm much less angry and anxious since leaving that platform 6 months ago. Hopefully, we get more NEW institutions from the ashes. Institutions dedicated to free society- like Brownstone Inst
One of my goals since a few months into Covid was to not let the absurdity of this event dominate my life, or the lives of my family. Clearly it is a disaster and an enormous failing of ethics and integrity - but we would not become bitter or vengeful. Like you, Matt, we just opted out. I’m still mad at all the forces swirling around us and letting that anger out is cathartic, but I will not let it define me.
Oh, we got plenty of perspective. A considerable number of our fellow citizens were thrilled with the permission to let their inner Good Germans out.
Since we're unlikely to ever be granted the physical justice of gibbets, we'll need to work extra hard to try to keep them from bursting out all over again, at least for a generation. They always come back, don't they?
One of my goals since a few months into Covid was to not let the absurdity of this event dominate my life, or the lives of my family. Clearly it is a disaster and an enormous failing of ethics and integrity - but we would not become bitter or vengeful. Like you, Matt, we just opted out. I’m still mad at all the forces swirling around us and letting that anger out is cathartic, but I will not let it define me.
I think that's a good way to be.
I am struggling with this same ambivalence. I am a recently former Democrat who lives in a deep blue state. I blame the progressive left for most of the Covid overkill and associated harms to my loved ones. With good cause, I believe.
Problem is, I now can't help but see stupidity, dishonesty and corruption in nearly everything the progressive left says and does. It's awkward, because I am surrounded by people who fancy themselves progressives and believe their progressivism puts them on some kind of higher moral plane. They seem to believe very genuinely that progressives' ostensibly noble intentions excuse all their backfired policies and resulting damage.
I didn't used to be overtly political. I'd love to leave my antipathy towards progressives behind and get "back to normal." But what is that now? So much has changed. And it seems like these people are just getting started at making the world a worse place.
Well said Matt! The team-reality friends I found on Twitter got me through the darkest days of covid RESPONSE. But, I'm much less angry and anxious since leaving that platform 6 months ago. Hopefully, we get more NEW institutions from the ashes. Institutions dedicated to free society- like Brownstone Inst
One of my goals since a few months into Covid was to not let the absurdity of this event dominate my life, or the lives of my family. Clearly it is a disaster and an enormous failing of ethics and integrity - but we would not become bitter or vengeful. Like you, Matt, we just opted out. I’m still mad at all the forces swirling around us and letting that anger out is cathartic, but I will not let it define me.
Oh, we got plenty of perspective. A considerable number of our fellow citizens were thrilled with the permission to let their inner Good Germans out.
Since we're unlikely to ever be granted the physical justice of gibbets, we'll need to work extra hard to try to keep them from bursting out all over again, at least for a generation. They always come back, don't they?
How many years did it take people to accept the truth about Iraq? I'm assuming they've accepted it...
I think so, or at least it's settled in the public imagination with whatever is commonly considered truth. It probably took 8 years or so.