Musings and Mumbles

 How did we get here? Why the hell... How the hell... For all the bullshit that I learned had happened while we were together, I never thought I'd hear something like this at all. Being a white knight was all a projection. All just a way to deflect actions that were playing out behind my back, hidden from me both because of the level of experience in hiding it, and my unwillingness to look further. The last few years, the facade cracked, and more truth was exposed than was ever expected. Then last year, I found out about what happened with a few people who'd stopped talking to me - because of my association with him. They assumed since I was still there, I'd side with him.  And they'd have been right. At the time, I had a small child, I was fighting to keep a relationship together after things had been so badly broken with Korina... I stayed because I didn't know who I was without him at that point, and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find my way with a small...

Generalizations give someone exactly what they're looking for, and nothing more than that. Human beings are hard-wired to look for things that fit our narrative, and we're very uncomfortable when we can't find it. We'll make up things to make it look more like what we believe (I'm looking at you, Fox news), and when we can't do that, we complain that we can't make up lies because there's too much truth out there. I have radical ideas about crime, and homelessness, and why our current American society is the way it is, and why right now, we have the last opportunity to really change things for the better, if the majority of us actually stand up and act on it. The capitalization of our own work, to the point of slavery, has come to a head at this point. The majority of workers in America end up working long hours, barely making even, and placing themselves further into debt because the cost of living has increased to an astronomical high. We do not have a ...