We’re past the point of any chance of being in a healthy society, unfortunately. Best we can hope for is a healthy society rising from the ashes of this one.
What also isn’t part of a healthy society is feeling like if you’re next, wondering if your neighbors are okay, questioning why there are armed masked men outside of your kid’s school.
That’s why I say that as an individual decision I understand it, but arming society massively and indiscriminately doesn’t solve that, it only leads us to a dark place
I am trying to not engage with the gun nuts but I just want to point out:
What also isn’t part of a healthy society is feeling like if you’re next, wondering if your neighbors are okay, questioning why there are armed masked men outside of your kid’s school.
Actually, I would argue all of those are a part of a healthy society. Because all of that is you being part of a community. You don’t decide “Nobody else is safe but I am going to be”. You actually question if the people living near you or your co-workers are struggling. And you wonder how you can make things better.
No. Living under a christofacist regime is not healthy. But nobody is going to be able to protect themselves when the shit hits the fan. We have constant evidence of that.
But people CAN protect their friends and neighbors. Individually we are weak. As a collective we are strong. And if folk would put even a fraction of the effort they put in to kitting out their PSAs into actually checking in with that neighbor to see how they are doing…
I understand it as an individual decision, but on a social level…damn, this isn’t the path to a healthy society.
We’re past the point of any chance of being in a healthy society, unfortunately. Best we can hope for is a healthy society rising from the ashes of this one.
What also isn’t part of a healthy society is feeling like if you’re next, wondering if your neighbors are okay, questioning why there are armed masked men outside of your kid’s school.
That’s why I say that as an individual decision I understand it, but arming society massively and indiscriminately doesn’t solve that, it only leads us to a dark place
I am trying to not engage with the gun nuts but I just want to point out:
Actually, I would argue all of those are a part of a healthy society. Because all of that is you being part of a community. You don’t decide “Nobody else is safe but I am going to be”. You actually question if the people living near you or your co-workers are struggling. And you wonder how you can make things better.
No. Living under a christofacist regime is not healthy. But nobody is going to be able to protect themselves when the shit hits the fan. We have constant evidence of that.
But people CAN protect their friends and neighbors. Individually we are weak. As a collective we are strong. And if folk would put even a fraction of the effort they put in to kitting out their PSAs into actually checking in with that neighbor to see how they are doing…