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Feb. 15th, 2006 11:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sophiaserpentiaWell, people are starting to write me off LJ to ask if i'm okay, so maybe i should post.
Yes, i'm okay. I guess. I haven't felt motivated to write lately because the issues i typically write about have come to a dead end.
Writing about religion and politics is for me, ultimately, an expression of hope in the idea that as humans we can collectively change society for the better. So long as i have hope in that, i am motivated to write.
I don't have a lot of hope at the present.
I don't know how to process the fact that nothing whatsoever is being done about people in the White House whom even the ultra-liberal ::snerk:: American Bar Association is calling criminals. No one is under any illusions anymore, but most Americans just don't care.
I don't know how to handle it when i see people all around me buy the media line that massive protests in the Middle East are really just about some dumb cartoons.
I don't know how to handle it when friends of mine, who have lost everything, including their health and emotional stability, are being kicked out of hotel rooms while 11,000 FEMA trailers sit empty in a field, sinking into the mud.
I haven't been moved to write about what is going on in my life either. It's been mostly good.
Well, let me throw this out there. Is anyone going to New Orleans for Mardi Gras?
Yes, i'm okay. I guess. I haven't felt motivated to write lately because the issues i typically write about have come to a dead end.
Writing about religion and politics is for me, ultimately, an expression of hope in the idea that as humans we can collectively change society for the better. So long as i have hope in that, i am motivated to write.
I don't have a lot of hope at the present.
I don't know how to process the fact that nothing whatsoever is being done about people in the White House whom even the ultra-liberal ::snerk:: American Bar Association is calling criminals. No one is under any illusions anymore, but most Americans just don't care.
I don't know how to handle it when i see people all around me buy the media line that massive protests in the Middle East are really just about some dumb cartoons.
I don't know how to handle it when friends of mine, who have lost everything, including their health and emotional stability, are being kicked out of hotel rooms while 11,000 FEMA trailers sit empty in a field, sinking into the mud.
I haven't been moved to write about what is going on in my life either. It's been mostly good.
Well, let me throw this out there. Is anyone going to New Orleans for Mardi Gras?
