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jordinn

@jordinn@zirk.us

I'm a parish minister in covenant with a progressive denomination, currently taking a walk on the wild side through academia. I live in both Vermont and Newfoundland, study the political economy of public and public-adjacent institutions, and am extremely not into austerity or genocide (and I don't find a lot of daylight between the theology that allows either of those things to occur).

Wondering what happens to make just peace politically tenable. Here for futurity, yours and theirs.

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It's probably seasonal habit- I have done a roadtrip through the rust belt part of urban midwest every summer for like 7 years, covid inclusive ... but for the past week or so my brain is actively yearning for Detroit or St. Louis or this evening even (lol) Buffalo. We have no such plans because of our unprecedented-with-kids Europe trip and I do not know if I will be ok.

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A thing that seems historically demonstrable: this current wave of fascist creep and repression of civil liberties will not last forever

A corresponding historically demonstrable fear: the currently-rising order seems likely to do catastrophic harm to bodies and to communities, and to take a lot (A LOT) of lives between this moment and whenever a widely-shared peace and expanding context of collective well being next takes hold

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Cognitive dissonance arises when what we know is irresolvably out of sync with what we see, what we hear, what we are told. From climate change to conservatism being hijacked by a dangerous far-right fringe, most people 'know.' But our society isn't designed with emergency stop levers; in fact, it's structured to prevent their deployment at all costs.

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I was at a clergy gathering this past week and watched my colleagues, most of whom are quite intelligent and a few of whom are brilliant, simply not be able to acknowledge to themselves or each other the level of threat that the US is facing in this coming year. We pick conference topics 2 years ahead, running a gathering once every 6 months; we are scheduled to talk about 'the health of democracy' one month AFTER the US election.

People very simply cannot deal. And if they can't, no one can.

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Obviously, I don't LITERALLY mean NO ONE. Resistance is creative and bold and sometimes effective, both at holding the line and at winning some gains. People continue to fight, and will continue to. And we will lose less, including less hope and less life, because of it.

But I understand in a more frank way that there is simply no stopping so much of this at this point. And we can blame people, our friends, our families, ourselves, each other, but it's the containers as much as anything.

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I am not convinced that people did not resist Hitler early, given what I see these days. I imagine that the (early, non catastrophic) resistance stories simply got lost to time and to the real and widespread catastrophe that followed. It seems very likely that people noticed, spoke out, took risks, said and did what they could.

We assume that everyone was all in because thinking of Germans and then the world as dupes simplifies things vs. assuming there was a struggle, which lost.

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People would have to collectively BREAK what they love, or think they do, about liberal society in order to mount an effective emergency resistance to what's happening now.

And they just won't. They cannot.

They very simply cannot even imagine it.

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I have come to believe that the biggest enemy to meaningful resistance within liberal civil society is the discomfort (and thus the unappealingness) of cognitive dissonance combined with 'peaceful relations' as a personal and collective value.

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[don't yuk people's yum ... don't yuk people's yum ...] - me, to myself, every damn day of rhubarb season

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Saw this in the bathroom of the Queer Friendly Coffee House:

jordinn,
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@RickiTarr it's the crimethinc poster! Our UU fellowship in Kansas had one in both (gendered) bathrooms, above diaper changing tables in both rooms. I KID YOU NOT, THE MEN TOOK THEIRS DOWN AND HUNG UP JAYHAWK BASKETBALL. 😂 🤦🏻‍♀️

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@RickiTarr FOR EVERY WELL MEANING CHURCH STAFF MEMBER WHO HANGS UP A CRIMETHINC POSTER THERE IS A MAN SELF AUTHORIZED TO REMOVE IT

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Most of the US middle and professional classes still hugely underestimate the differential impact of state policy, funding and governance as dependent on where you live

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I'm noticing (in recent followers) a pattern of scam accounts that look more 'normal' or 'ordinary' than most but something just feels off and then I notice that a few sentences don't parse correctly, and in ways a native English speaker would not accidentally phrase things. To make things more fun, three of those accounts have posted THIS SAME EXACT MESSAGE

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Arielle Angel's gorgeous and courageous as fuck essay is worth your time this week. It hurt to read, but in a different way than everything else ... this hurt because it reopened my heart to hope, the bloody and bruised kind that feels like it asks too much of any of us.

https://jewishcurrents.org/we-cannot-cross-until-we-carry-each-other

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This morning my last surviving grandparent died in Cheyenne. She would have been 91 next month. It's the end of an era for my family and I am definitely feeling some kind of way.

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Actual text from my mom

Good morning, my sweet. Thanks for the gift card. I have never been very successful with herbs but have been wanting to try again so need both pots and herbs.
Also wanted to give you a heads up that your grandmother has stopped eating and drinking.
Hope you are enjoying your home time. Love you

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BOOMERS WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS

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Also for the record, I did just talk to this person, on the phone, for an hour, on Sunday afternoon. I know it sounds otherwise. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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me, texting back: [um, hi and wtf]

my mother: you're right, sorry. you could text your dad for more info!

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Maybe it's that we should not have let them have devices?

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@CedarTea Yes. I get this. I am just saying that its' all well and good until you get the one that's like

Hey, these are really interesting tracks. I think they are a badger. Also I've been seeing someone and we got married last weekend. She's 21. Your soup and sandwich pictures looked tasty! Have a good day

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Last week I agreed to interview for a contract ministry gig, during which the interviewer shared 'We're talking with three other people, but we think you're the one. Prove it to us!' Me: lol. lmao.

I asked to be taken off their consideration list (I have already had that kind of job and it's not what I have time for this year) but I'm still marveling, a bit. They are either WAY out of touch or the ministry job market is turning around. As obnoxious as that was, I sincerely hope it's the latter.

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I wonder if we are going to need to teach people other skills. The person interviewing me is, like many members of our congregations, a business heavy hitter who has had a lot of financial success. He cares a lot about our movement and is deeply involved, but I suspect sees truly no other reasonable way to interact with the actual human who is their potential minister than as a cog in an efficiency/austerity business model. I am super unwilling, and I wonder what else is possible.

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@jonobie The people with whom I'm interested in working will understand (collectively, and also individually in terms of who they put forth to be their representative in a search) that we are in an unfamiliar place, sociologically and institutionally, and that they are looking for a thought partner and accomplice in what primarily is their own work. Thus, the conversations will be about their dreams and what ours might be together, and they will use the reference process to check admin creds.

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Things I am zero percent convinced anyone accounted for in climate change forecasts: the impacts of war (carbon costs of aerial campaigns, destruction of greenspace, weapons production), Canada's entire boreal forest burning over a 10 year period, AI water and energy usage

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Y'all continue to really underestimate how immediately and truly life-threatening it feels to people to cut against their own belonging in extremely visible ways. Even people who DO feel at risk aren't going to mask rn, for the most part, and it's literally because of this. Those of us who are willing to walk into a gathering and put a mask on and be the only one are FEW and my hunch is, we can do this because of constant muscular practice (including of the self-justifications behind it).

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