Why is everyone obsessed with grief?
If I were to make a word cloud from people's social media posts around the 2024 election, grief would be one of the biggest words. So many people are sharing how they're feeling right now and a prevalent feeling across the generations seems to be grief. To which I say "Bless your hearts." The mood going into election day in my social media bubble was anxious, near hysterical, even nihilistic. The mood since the results were announced has been one of deep grief. "...right now I feel only grief" The title of this email was "A Poem for these Times" I know the posts will die down soon but, all the same, I wish we could skip this part. I find it to be overly sentimental, precious and, ultimately, missing in any kind of power/class analysis that is sorely needed both inside of and outside of election cycles. Really, I'm not intending for this post to turn into a commentary on our political system; I mostly want to challenge folks to build communit...