“The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home, and to act together.”
seems like this is not too far from the original meaning of "woke", and the related "overstand" from black American culture.
you're alert and aware of the situation. you're not hiding from the truths that make it what it is. that gives you some power to change things.
1 week ago
i think the US will recover from Trump pretty well. he's exposing a lot of cracks in the foundation, sure. but we've discovered and fixed a lot of such cracks before.
1 week ago
it's shocking how fragile all of this is: that a single dimwitted blowhard like Trump could knock it all down. and that nobody in the US has both the power and the inclination to rein him in.
“The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home, and to act together.”
seems like this is not too far from the original meaning of "woke", and the related "overstand" from black American culture.
you're alert and aware of the situation. you're not hiding from the truths that make it what it is. that gives you some power to change things.
i think the US will recover from Trump pretty well. he's exposing a lot of cracks in the foundation, sure. but we've discovered and fixed a lot of such cracks before.
it's shocking how fragile all of this is: that a single dimwitted blowhard like Trump could knock it all down. and that nobody in the US has both the power and the inclination to rein him in.
heckofajob, Framers.