lgbtq issues
Has social media broken our brains?: Digital natives
I was fifteen in rural Arkansas. The nearest openly queer adult I knew about ran a salon forty minutes away and didn’t talk about it at church. The internet connection in my bedroom was the only door that opened onto a room where I could exist. Tumblr wasn’t designed for me.... - Democracy is broken. We can’t make democracy work at scale given current tech levels. It’s not even “the best bad idea we have so far.” It’s just broken.No one is qualified to lead hundreds of millions of people at the nexus of a global economy. No one is even qualified to evaluate whether someone else might do it. So we fall back to the best marketer/influencer, which is worse than many other potential options.#Deeptakes
It's something about what feels like a fact, "Democracy isn't going away." I see you questioning what comes next when what's here has more than enough questions to ask. On the ground here in gay brown guy land it doesn't feel safe.... Could it be ethically ok to not vote? note: I posted this two hours before Biden stepped down. It’s possible that a different Dem candidate could change my choices, but my overall perspective feels the same.
A lot of people I’m close to have very strong opinions that to not vote in this presidential election is wrong. But I have no interest in voting. It genuinely seems to me that things will be perfectly not ideal no matter what happens in the election.
My best guess of what’s happening culturally is that the
mean green meme
has gotten really far down its negative feedback loop, and red, orange, and amber are swarming on the attack. If that’s right, a breaking point of sorts will have to be hit for teal to get to its tipping point. In 12-step terms, green would have to hit rock bottom to be able to finally admit it has a problem and needs help.I wouldn’t be surprised if teal’s tipping point would have to be particularly intense because it’s also the tipping point into second tier, and we have no historical reference for what it takes for a culture to begin to get a foothold in a new tier (the big bang, the formulation of simple cells, and the leap from apes to humans might be comparable but difficult to translate…)
This thought process just leaves me trusting what’s happening, and voting just doesn’t feel like one of the ways I want to participate in this happening.
All my mind thinks about is Trump will do anything to win which means take away rights from people like me. I think it’s probably dark on both sides but I want my rights. So I vote. I don’t think it’s unethical to vote but it hurts my feelings....