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Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Fire, Fury, and Frustration Edition
3 things that hard wire our society to repeat this cycle of doom need to be addressed, or will be doing this all over again
I’ve never struggled with putting what my eyes see and read to what my fingers write as I have the last few days. I even debated if it was appropriate to do a purposefully snarky thing like HYMM is, as I did not do when the Coronavirus first hit for a few weeks. But the frustration is real and the anger is real, so if we don’t channel it productively ourselves, who are we to tell others to do so?
Thus here we go, with this weeks Harsh Your Mellow Monday. But do take care of yourselves and each other out there.
No, This Time Won’t Be Different…Unless
Every time we do this, folks will insist “This is the moment…” that everything is going to be different.
God, I hope it is. I pray it is. I doubt it is.
Not because folks don’t want change, or aren’t demanding it, or really don’t mean it when they protest, because everything that brought us up to this point is untouched by all that outrage and will…
