EDITOR’S NOTE: THE WORLD IS BURNING, BUT WE DANCE
I think we can all agree to some extent—the world is burning. Or, at least, it seems like it.
I am of the opinion that it has always been on fire, the flames just get wilder or tamer at different times in different generations. But we continue to burn and then we die.
Now, the flames are getting wilder. So many people following world news are stressed about World War 3, Ford has made massive drawbacks to OSAP and here in the region, we have to be concerned about our water supply in the region and the housing crisis is still ongoing and, and, and…
On top of that, there are the Epstein Files. I have been going out of my way to avoid too much information about them at once—it is simply too much for me to process. I know that sounds awful coming from a journalist, but I am also a person and the things the people in those files will not change whether I read them now or later, they will just traumatize me more all at once.
I think over the last few years, the Epstein Files had become a bit of a joke. It was a meme for years and, now that they have been released, their heavily redacted nature is a joke in and of itself. Why release them at all if you’re going to keep protecting the perpetrators?
So, the world sucks and I don’t know what to do about it.
Knowing more and learning more doesn’t seem to be helping, it seems to just be increasing this feeling of helplessness—look at the leaders of our world, look what they did, look at the lack of consequences, the depths of monstrous depravity. What can we even do anymore?
The thing about knowledge is that it is useful and necessary, but it can add to the feeling of helplessness. If you don’t know anything, you are at a disadvantage; if you have incomplete knowledge, you know enough to guess at what to be afraid of. The latter is still more useful than the former.
We must continue to learn. This is important. This is also your world, when it feels like you have no agency, you must remind yourself that you do, that little actions add up to major results; and also support the people around you.
I am terrified—as are many of the people I have spoken to. But this existential dread is not unique to our time or generation. We live in the worst kind of time—an interesting one. For many of us, our worldviews are being altered. In the words of Jessi, our creative director, “the world is rotten to the core”.
Negative things are hard to measure. That is, the absence of something is difficult to measure since you cannot reliably say how much of it there would have been in other situations. Still, it is logical to work toward the world you want, because doing the opposite will work against you.
All of these awful things that are happening are part of our reality, but in order to survive mentally, we must also focus on the good and beautiful things. As much as the world sucks right now and we are bombarded with all the terrible things, there are good and beautiful things. They exist, they are part of our reality as much as the terrible things.
The good and beautiful things, a sense of whimsy to contrast the despair keep me sane. But I will not pretend to have all the answers.
This is not the best timeline. I also hope it’s not the worst one.
We have this little spot in the middle of the vastness, we do our best in our little spot in the middle of the vastness. The flames are getting hotter, but we will dance around them and we will make it through.
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