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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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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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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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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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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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[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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