tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post5195409574636465981..comments2024-03-20T14:31:49.238-07:00Comments on mole: Losing My PlaceDalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-328754168263061192021-02-13T08:00:37.693-08:002021-02-13T08:00:37.693-08:00{{{Ari}}}
Yes, exactly.{{{Ari}}}<br /><br />Yes, exactly.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-6071822906169244852021-02-09T17:20:07.662-08:002021-02-09T17:20:07.662-08:00When he was elected it made me realize how much I ...When he was elected it made me realize how much I took for granted that The Science (among other things) was being taken care of by some other people. Who these other people were was beyond me. But they cared a whole lot and took care of such things. There were lots of reasons I went back to school, but I know a main theme is the fragility you mentioned. I suddenly felt very responsible for helping to maintain a truthful human record, and the best way I could figure out how was to become as literate as I possibly could in the most basic ways that things work. <br /><br />I still don't recognize myself in it. I wonder how long it might take. If ever. Wanting the joy back feels selfish. Though I know that's just the trauma talking. It feels strange to think back that joy was my everyday tool. I used to be able to call it in under my hands in an instant. What used to be pure sunlight is now a tiny flame that requires constant fussing and nurturing.<br /><br />Arihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708459661764589433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-88388824475258176692021-02-08T09:04:58.482-08:002021-02-08T09:04:58.482-08:00Jo: well of course, I've had no meaningful imp...Jo: well of course, I've had no meaningful impact on Trumpism at all, just as no vote I've cast has ever had any meaningful influence on an election. I vote nevertheless, and in the same way I try to weigh my social influence. I've been part of the growing American contempt for expertise and the glorification of intuition, and having watched their consequences play out in political rhetoric and public health policy, I no longer want to be.<br /><br />Alexandra: yes, maybe I don't need to throw out the baby with the bath! <br /><br />Diana, Lori: :-)Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-81376230873220859082021-02-05T16:07:54.326-08:002021-02-05T16:07:54.326-08:00Your last two entries, it's like you're in...Your last two entries, it's like you're in my head.Diana Higginsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-91872124568481016382021-02-05T11:41:16.223-08:002021-02-05T11:41:16.223-08:00I always felt like the difference between Fox News...I always felt like the difference between Fox News and the Daily Show was that one had the integrity to call itself comedy and I'm wondering if imagination isn't the proper realm of poets. It's so cool though to take responsibility for one's part in things we prefer to see outside ourselves.Alexandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06556802095665437893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-52720356156069671212021-02-05T11:08:38.288-08:002021-02-05T11:08:38.288-08:00I feel like I've lost the capacity for joy too...I feel like I've lost the capacity for joy too, but for other reasons. The inside of my own head, my own horrible failings, the losses and looming bad things, small and large, personal and global. <br /><br />But as to the idea that you somehow cultivated Trumpism by revelling in literary fancy without posting caveats for one Trumpist is as magical as anything about moments of revelation in carn parks... what? I ... what? <br /><br />And many horrors have been done in the name of science, and will be again. We use it very badly. It'll be interesting to see if we bring on the apocalypse because we reject science, or because we elevate it to omnipotence. Jo from Irelandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08659043092649439060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5349472.post-56327952153306191532021-02-05T10:25:15.117-08:002021-02-05T10:25:15.117-08:00(o)(o)Lori Witzelnoreply@blogger.com