Keith In PNW
A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆SKY
On this national holiday, I'm republishing a thing written in the week before the White Christian President took office. It's a lament, and a vision for a country many have always insisted we were, a country we've never managed to become.
You wake up and the sky is gone. At times that’s how it seems. You wonder at it: how could there not be a sky? What will become of us now, in this world without a sky? Was it ever there, or did we just imagine it there, as an exercise of collective will?
And then you talk to others who insist the sky is there. They say: It’s not gone, it’s just red now. Accept that we did want it red. Move on with your life and suck it up, buttercup. Red sky will make us great again.
But the sky isn’t red. It’s not anything. It’s just … not. It is a not-ness. An un-sky. A nothing.
And then you start talking to people who laugh, not without compassion, that you ever fell for the idea there was a sky. They say: That big vast emptiness?
Oh, yes. That’s always been there for us. Is it there for you now? How… interesting.
We can tell you a thing or two about that emptiness, if you’d listen.
We’ve been watching it an awful long time.
The sky is the future. Or it was the future. That’s how it seems, at times. How odd, to speak of the future in the past tense. But the past tense presents us with further troubles.
It seems the past is gone, too.
Great again? When we we great? For whom?
So on this day usually reserved for a celebration of the country we are and the country we have been, I would like to suggest that we become patriots of a country that we have long claimed to be but have never yet been, patriots that are willing to do the work and pay the prices necessary to make this, for the first time, a country of freedom and justice for all.
We are a people who have dreamed of the sky. I’d like to see if we can make it real.
Barbara Monaco@JuliusGoat This is beautiful. Read it. Please.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.
David O'Brien
Hat. AuDHD cat 😷🌺🍉🌻🔻We could....
Many of us never lost track of the always changing NOW.
We ARE here and this IS NOW.
We cannot go BACK IN TIME
"This is fine, just another normal day... ".
nothing's changed.. We inevitably will get back to that
We NEED NORMAL"
The sky is burning. Lies have convinced theoretically decent people that NO price is too high for ACTING like we went BACK
I witness it..
I cannot free the chi!d in Omelas
All i can do is i stand outside the gate.
Dragon-sided D@JuliusGoat "... in the days before the White Christian President took office"
Further down, unsurprisingly: "My translation of the Bible ..."
What is this tripe? Go back to the nasty, brutish, and tribalistic Bronze Age.
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