Staying Uninvolved Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be

Re: the meme here, wait a second.

An authoritarian regime really is illegally invading a democratic republic and slaughtering its civilians.  A bunch of people really are trying to overthrow the U.S. government. Anti-vaxxers really are making it harder to control the pandemic, and people are suffering agonizing deaths as a result. Climate change really is ruining our planet.

These are not elements of “scripted drama”; these are the horrors of what’s actually happening in the world, and the more people who engage with them and insist that they cease, the sooner all this misery will be over.

It’s funny; my mom worries about me, in true maternal fashion, believing that my activism is making me unhappy.  “Why not just live your life?” she suggests.  My response: “This is my life.”