If no one is able to reclaim the ‘megaphone’, you can count on the electorate quite literally ignoring their dwindling quality of life and degree of economic opportunity. No one likes cognitive dissonance, and, if given the opportunity, many will willfully elect self-deception.

A critical part of the issue is that his base, which has grown, doesn’t believe the affordability crisis is real. I was listening to an NPR interview a few days ago in which MAGA individuals were pleased to note a (non-existent) drop in food prices while sharing new feelings of ‘economic security’.

You’re inspiring me to give Robert Carver’s “O Bone Jesu” another listen. Written for nineteen voices, it features shocking, evocative dissonances.

Glad to know others are aware of Schmitt.. we are having our article 48 moment

Thank you for all of the above! I think I can now make a good start at self-affirming my own Foxiness with some direction.

Also, I need to re-therianize my diet and leave behind the produce of a harmful, colonial agro-ecology.

I’m not a visual artist but I have the same relationship with writing. I’ll be balling out on research and planning and then go cold on writing. The best advice I have is the 15 min rule. Start a 15 min timer and begin work… just for 15 min—and then stop. Work in small, tolerable intervals.