"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are." One of the things about the moment we’re in is that it feels like any expression of agitation is trite, invalid, or useless. This started being the case even before the pandemic, in my opinion. Posting my feelings of anything on social media would instantanously present me with a set of people of particular markets of opinion about them; I would either have to become hypervigillant about the forthcoming disagreements, or augment the experssions and audience I made. The expression of a personal opinion seemed to be much more of a social engagement than it used to be; it’s a sort of insideous undermining of privacy, not that we don’t already have
The right to be angry, the goodness of defiance
The right to be angry, the goodness of…
The right to be angry, the goodness of defiance
"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are." One of the things about the moment we’re in is that it feels like any expression of agitation is trite, invalid, or useless. This started being the case even before the pandemic, in my opinion. Posting my feelings of anything on social media would instantanously present me with a set of people of particular markets of opinion about them; I would either have to become hypervigillant about the forthcoming disagreements, or augment the experssions and audience I made. The expression of a personal opinion seemed to be much more of a social engagement than it used to be; it’s a sort of insideous undermining of privacy, not that we don’t already have