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Maintaining sanity in insane times
We Interrupt This Nightmare For a Reminder of the Miraculous
Because reality is so much more than we think
The nightmare arises in daylight now
Every morning, another gut punch. Another pillar of the society we thought would hold steady gets knocked down. We’re unwilling passengers in a car driven toward a cliff by power-crazed madmen intent on destruction.
They can’t seem to grasp that if the whole car goes over the edge, they’ll go with it. They can’t conceive of their own demise, or else they’re so terrified of it that they’re unconsciously compelled to summon it.
So here we are, steered toward ruin by hapless pyromaniacs who are determined to burn everything down and us with it. A cadre of fiddling Neros, gleefully reveling in cruelty.
Example: On February 20, the White House released a video of shackled immigrants being loaded onto a deportation flight. The White House captioned the video “ASMR” — which, in case you’re out of a certain twist of the pop culture loop, stands for “autonomous sensory meridian response.”
The TLDR on ASMR: It’s said to be a pleasant, warm, tingle that, once triggered, begins at the scalp and travels down the…
