Today I'm thinking about a conversation @l1quidcryst4l had a while back about how people in the US are raised and conditioned to, perhaps unconsciously, believe they are merely an audience to history. Politics happens in a theater, and we can only watch

Voting in the US is like American Idol. We don't ultimately feel like our votes matter. We take the backseat. We watch the world pass by on TV. Even though we might know there's activists and other agents out there changing the world, we never see ourselves as those people

We might show up to rallies occasionally, but that's more like going to American Idol live than really being an agent in the world.



Today I'm thinking about how that affects our approaches to our discourse, to what we say in public