by Caitlin Johnstone, Caitlin Johnstone:

I wouldn’t invest any emotional energy in the hope that things will eventually return to normal. They won’t. The good news is that what we think of as “normal” is actually as crazy as a species could possibly be, and we may in fact be clumsily stumbling toward actual sanity.

Speaking of which, please prioritize your mental health at this point in history. Like, really, truly prioritize it. Things are only going to get more unusual and confusing from here on out, and you’ll need to keep your feet underneath you.

Keep truthfully saying what you believe to be true in each moment and eventually you will have pissed off everyone.

Me, a naive idiot: It’s a real problem how US police brutalize and kill people who don’t obey them.

Half of the entire internet: Well obviously the police are going to brutalize and kill someone who disobeys them, you naive idiot.

Me, now informed: Ah, I stand corrected.

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Funny how the people who bleat “all lives matter” clearly believe cop lives matter much much more than other lives.

I swear some people have a whole other brain for thinking about police brutality. A tiny shriveled up brain they keep in the sock drawer which has a completely different system of logic and values when it comes to acts of violence committed by someone who is wearing a badge.

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Most of the bootlickers defending acts of police brutality right now are really just defending the brutal way they were parented or the brutal way they parent their kids. Disobey and you deserve to be assaulted.

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What did all you “don’t tread on me” types think tyranny was going to look like anyway? What is it about the government’s goon squad executing people on site for not being submissive enough that doesn’t scream tyranny to you?

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Dear America,

I think part of the problem we’re all having with you is that when you said you wanted to be the world’s police, we didn’t quite understand what the word “police” means in your country.

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Defund/dismantle/disarm/abolish the police: Revolutionary. Paradigm-shifting. As threatening to establishment power structures as “End US imperialism”.

Reform/transform the police: Boring fauxgressive inertia-generating verbiage. As paradigm-changing as “Don’t attack Iran, attack Syria”.

America appears to have been invaded by some sort of hostile military force. https://t.co/Fe44WES3iR

— Caitlin Johnstone ⏳ (@caitoz) June 15, 2020

The delusion that everything revolves around Trump is a confusion-making blind spot for both Democrats and Republicans. Trump is unremarkable as a president and is unremarkable as a man. What’s remarkable is the time period we are living in.

No event of any major significance can be accurately understood through a framework of mainstream partisan politics or a Trump-centric worldview. This is as true of these protests as it is of everything else.

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The goal has always been to get dissident ideas into mainstream consciousness. If you resist this, you resist changing the status quo. There’s always a bit of a hipstery “I was here before it was cool” pushback when dissident ideas like dismantling the police state get more mainstream traction. But if you actually care about making the world healthy, you’ll always see their going mainstream as a good thing.

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If no other good comes from the whole statues controversy than getting more people to re-evaluate their esteem for Winston Churchill, it will have been worthwhile.

Most of the people alive today are better people than Winston Churchill was. He was good at killing and bad at being a decent human being. Let’s acknowledge this, keep moving forward as a species, and leave shitty dead men in our dust.

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