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Lucy WinterThere should be a word for this spaced-out sense of rage and alienation that comes from watching jackbooted thugs murder civilians and threaten WW3, and still having to, like, brush your teeth and pick up your dry cleaning and take your cat to the vet and stuff.
Susanna the Artist 🌻@LucyWinter Because the best compound words are German, I nominate “Banalewut.” It means “banal rage.”
JPeck@superflippy @LucyWinter figured the Germans would have a word. I was thinking there had to be a Russian word too
@boscoandpeck @LucyWinter Oh it’s not a real German word, I just made it up with the help of the Translate app!
@superflippy @LucyWinter 🤣 well it was convincing enough for me
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen@LucyWinter it burns me up that the people who get drawn into this fascist bullshit, the folks who cluster round squalid right-wing celebrities like J. D. Vance or Elon Musk, have basically found a way of being bad at all that stuff. they're people who clearly stink at responsibility, they're always complaining about their disastrous private lives and moaning about how everyone's fled from them, but they've got their precious fashy cult keeping them going.
they get to have fun, and laugh at those who actually care about friendship and family and living in harmony and all that boring stuff. our frantic efforts to keep society stumbling forward are funny to them. I suppose they feel like at some point their life is simply going to fade into a bright glow of God's Kingdom (or a nuke) and nothing's gonna matter any more.
ShadSterling@LucyWinter been feeling this way a lot for the last few years
Linda Sgoluppi Artist@LucyWinter Two words? Catastrophic dissonance.
Olivia Vespera
Nicole ParsonsIn the movie Hope & Glory there's a quiet & peaceful scene of lawn mowing, gardening, & kids playing that's interrupted by a BBC war announcement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_and_Glory_(film)
In the background, a bomb shelter, food being grown, & a father doing chores for his family before a duty call-up for military service.
Start preparing. Food. Preparatory chores. Sheltering & supporting family & friends. Uniting together against fascism.
Advance planning helps.
thedæmon (Clay Ayers) [he / him]I want to scream every day at work, "What are you people doing? Are you not outraged?" but I don't I just talk to the other coworker that has this same feeling and we try to make sense of it. Showers are much longer these days.