Where we are now
Nov. 15th, 2016 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwI typed out a long thing but LJ swallowed it somehow. I'll try to be brief. The metaphor I feel is that the United States is body (person/animal). We have been having more and more wounds over time, but in the past couple of years, the scabs have been ripped off faster than angiogenesis can keep up. Eric Garner - rip. HB2 - rip. Civilians bombed in Syria - rip. The ongoing rise in hate crimes, many religious-based - rip. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/14/502036699/hate-crimes-rose-in-2015-with-religious-bias-a-growing-motivation-fbi-data-shows
In this past week, the election results and subsequent hate have felt like the biggest single wound. Now I wonder whether some degree of healing can happen, with big scars, or whether something will need to be amputated.
In this past week, the election results and subsequent hate have felt like the biggest single wound. Now I wonder whether some degree of healing can happen, with big scars, or whether something will need to be amputated.
