The Baffling Notion of Polarization

There was such an opportunity to come together...there was a moment that two extremes could come together and make amends, uphold similarities and temporarily disregard differences...and yet we polarize even further...like opposing magnetic forces, pushing further and further away. 

There's too much information, too much chaos, to even begin to know what TRUTH is in the objective world anymore. Politics have now poisoned the great institutions of the scientific method and fields of chemistry and biology, so much so that the most unlikely voices, and sometimes unwelcome voices are standing for those institutions. 

What's worse to the performative posturing and hypocrisy that I see from ALL sides, the blitzkrieg speed at which someone judges and ridicules someone else without regarding their own hypocrisy, without judgement of self. It's sickening. I've said this time and time again and it rings true even more, to this day, and every day...

A PLAGUE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES - Mercutio...Romeo and Juliet (by Shakespeare)

With that said, I will continue to operate in the shadows and make my own judgements, put my money and action where it counts. I don't need the validation of the masses to feel justified about where and how I volunteer. To add to the narrative without proper action is sinful. To spread political agenda without helping one's neighbor, let alone keeping one's mouth shut and simply helping one's neighbor, is parasitic.

I implore you...I invite you...to shut the fuck up and do something. Move your body and do what's right in your immediate space, your immediate environment. It's much better than ridiculing someone for choices that do not affect you in your physical space and immediate moment. If you find a controversial article, hit piece, with questionable sources, read & digest it, but for God's sake, do the world a fucking favor and try not to spread it, unless it's completely and utterly necessary. Even then, pause...really...TRULY...pause.

Call your reps. Find out about what your local community is doing to keep EVERYONE safe AND preserve inalienable liberty and freedom. I'm happy to know  my reps and my community are doing that, that they're working together. 

The choices I'm making:

I'm wearing a mask in common sense cirumstances, and choosing not to judge others for not doing so. How about that? Live and let live and take responsibility. Stop ridiculing others for choosing not to and vice versa. It's their choice, it's their body. Make your own choices. 

Educating myself from the source of those who have lived and experienced, not those who have observed and by doing so feel shame and guilt for their 'privilege'.  (You know who you are and by adding to the narrative with your white washed version of social justice, you are doing EXACTLY what you're fighting against and worse. Fucking listen...to those who have LIVED and EXPERIENCED what you HAVEN'T)

Picking my sources carefully and choosing to listen to science and boredom rather than sensation and mass hysteria. 

That ends my rant. Some of you may see this as hypocritical. The act of writing this and placing it on public forum has thus contradicted the message of shutting up. Thus, I expose my condition. Forgive me, I am human and so are you.

You are a person, I am a person. We are broken, fucked up, and imperfect. Always have been always will be. There will always be death and suffering and with that it should never deter us from our joy and healing.

Passionate and Visceral love to all of you. Remember who you are and KNOW THYSELF

​~ CC Out