hope through the showers
It really is becoming a problem, finding hope in this world we live in right now. Not sure if I have mentioned this, but I keep my news reading pretty varied so I can see the spin on stories or lack of reporting, that is, depending on readership. I have no idea why more people do not do this, it’s like there’s a piece of people’s brains that require them to sit inside echo chambers full of their own ideas, and any intrusion of an opposing though will make them shut down and not even. I mean–I do have a lot of critique of the conservative party because people neglect to see the rich and select few governing and setting up rules for the many to benefit those select few–money is the first and only American value, after all. It’s hard not to be critical of a government catering to the whims of the few to affect so many. But I read far left far right and some things in the middle to keep me pretty well-versed in the conversations. It is why I know what each side is missing in its servings of reality.
So I read these websites and I read the commentary just to see the tone and attitude out there, and it’s not fucking pretty, my friends. Yeah, of course I get angry at some of the conservative spin–it’s hard to swallow, and you wouldn’t believe the missing aspects in a lot of reporting from liberal to conservative–the things that make this administration look bad, meaning the things that affect people like OT pay and food stamps–they are legitimately missing from Fox News. I have done side-by-sides and I guess if you were conservative, you could argue the damn liberals are always pulling people’s heart strings because we live in a society and I think that is normal, and they are always looking at their money and honestly, shit at the end of the day you can’t take with you, and had more people had that realization, the world would be a better place.
As it is, most of the websites I read don’t leave me with a lot of hope because it appears people are resolute in their stances and thinking and people don’t change, and especially do not like to admit when they are wrong. Right now, being off Facebook was ideal. Right now, avoiding the world seems ideal. Right now, when I do go out and encounter other people I do try to be super nice–I told some girl and her boyfriend the other day they were so cute and she seemed very relieved. I told her I was sick of all the hate and thought I would give something else out for the day. But as a general statement I remain pretty damn happy to not be out in the world encountering so many people fueled by spite.
Sometimes I wonder if there is anything at all we could unite ourselves under, and I realize the hateful have done that already, and it is a more compelling force than most other angles people could take. It’s super fun to unite around an enemy you are trying to vanquish, and we’ve done a good job following their leads and hating all the wrong people. I am not sure how
Ker-blah on that. It’s super hard to find hope to fuel itself knowing we have zero control over any of the conversation, really.
