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"The exterminating force of Project 2025 is plowing through the culture, the
government and people’s hearts and bodies like a drunk on a violent tear. We
wake each morning, holding our breath to bear witness to the new devastation:
PBS and NPR defunded, cuts to the fight against human trafficking, Medicaid
gone for millions, Ice working to surveil critics, tons of food for the poor
ordered burned and wasted.
The momentum of cruelty always feels inevitable. Cruelty is by definition “a
callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain”. For those of us who have
suffered physical, political, racial and emotional abuse, it feels like a
familiar steamroller of violence. We only have to witness the cries of parents
being separated from their children, men screaming out for “
libertad” from
cages in Everglades detention center (AKA Alligator Alcatraz), non-violent
protesters beaten for trying to stop a genocide, to be frozen in that same
incapacitating dread and fear.
What is the antidote to this destructive environment of mendacity possessing us
now with fear, ennui and self-mutilating rage?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
