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What Sustains You in Dark Times?
If you’re like me, there’s only one thing that keeps you going.
This has been a rough week thanks to the election, especially the election results. We’re on the verge of living under an authoritarian government of our own choosing. The insanity of it is staggering.
Yet, here I am with my newsletter about creativity, hoping someone will read it and whatnot.
Will it help anyone?
Maybe it will help someone. Maybe that someone is me.
The World Needs Our Authentic Self
I live by the credo that the world needs our authentic self to show up and take part in community. That’s how I figure out my fiction and humor: it’s all based on what I’ve witnessed, and how I’ve felt about those events.
When the world falls into darkness, it’s usually because a mob has abandoned their “self” in favor of an “other.” It can happen with small mobs, like a few fools out for an evening and, together, they make a series of increasingly bad decisions.
It also happens at the scale of countries, like when Germans elected Hitler, and when Americans elected Trump. Listening to hate and fear, they chose the mob.
