What to do? The most tempting response is also the most useless: get angry and indulge in defeatism. Shake your (lowered) head. (Re)post, (re)tweet, and whisper your consternation among other believers. Feeling a bit bolder? Write a whole article about this new absurdity (same verse, just like the first) in tones of deep indignation.
But none of it matters. It won’t change a thing. The reason is because no one who has the direct power to stop this carnival of prejudice and depravity cares what any of us think. They do not care about logic, about arguments, about science, about hypocrisy, about civilizational stability, about tradition, about religion, or even about whether, outside of their peer group, they are widely disliked. …
These are hard words for me to write. I have long considered myself above boycotting and protesting because I believed it to be naïve and self-righteous. I’ve got a job to do, a family to take care of, and things to buy at good prices and in convenient locations. But that belief is context dependent. The cultural, political, and economic grounds have radically shifted. Living as if it were 1998 or even 2018 is not only imprudent. It’s delusional. Things will not get better on their own. No one is coming to save us. The institutional powers will not cease degrading and harassing us unless we stop them.
[This is a couple of weeks old, but it’s well worth reading in full and bookmarking as well. — Ed]
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