Election Results Feelings
I had to take a moment to read. A lot. I am still not fully in tune with how I feel. All change starts with this backward slip, as what once was hidden in our darkness is brought into the light, for all to see. Until the discomfort of such vision becomes so overwhelming there can be no true change. Metaphorically speaking, it is only at that moment when the Knight is granted enough power to slay the Dragon. The Dragon is not Donald Trump, it is the darkness of the American people, rising up with the hope.
It's only been one day and already the people are hoping for kittens, babies, and food pictures to reappear as the norm in their life. No one wants to reach the level of discomfort it will take to make real change. WTF!?!?!?!
The discomfort we all feel right now is simply because the existence of these issues is now in our face. Before, we complacently lived with them, ignoring them, and now that they are in our face and we are forced to confront them and step out of complacency and take action ... people are posting how they are ashamed, afraid and more drastically how they want to kill themselves.
WTF?! When it was just your quiet neighbor, it was okay. You were not ashamed, not afraid, not wanting to kill yourself. Yet as soon as it reared its ugly head, breathing fire, gaining momentum ... one acts as if they had no idea??
How hard it must be to become the symbol of hatred and violence in a world that simply pretended it didn't exist before you stepped forward.
One cannot even begin to imagine how far back it all goes. This road we have been walking to get right here. Right now. Is a moment of forgiveness I forgot I had within me.
https://medium.com/@theonlytoby/history-tells-us-what-will-happen-next-with-brexit-trump-a3fefd154714#.8b9vb1tzz
I made these two images because of it ...
http://www2.nybooks.com/daily/s3/nov/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival.html
It's only been one day and already the people are hoping for kittens, babies, and food pictures to reappear as the norm in their life. No one wants to reach the level of discomfort it will take to make real change. WTF!?!?!?!
The discomfort we all feel right now is simply because the existence of these issues is now in our face. Before, we complacently lived with them, ignoring them, and now that they are in our face and we are forced to confront them and step out of complacency and take action ... people are posting how they are ashamed, afraid and more drastically how they want to kill themselves.
WTF?! When it was just your quiet neighbor, it was okay. You were not ashamed, not afraid, not wanting to kill yourself. Yet as soon as it reared its ugly head, breathing fire, gaining momentum ... one acts as if they had no idea??
How hard it must be to become the symbol of hatred and violence in a world that simply pretended it didn't exist before you stepped forward.
One cannot even begin to imagine how far back it all goes. This road we have been walking to get right here. Right now. Is a moment of forgiveness I forgot I had within me.
https://medium.com/@theonlytoby/history-tells-us-what-will-happen-next-with-brexit-trump-a3fefd154714#.8b9vb1tzz
I made these two images because of it ...
http://www2.nybooks.com/daily/s3/nov/10/trump-election-autocracy-rules-for-survival.html