As we crawl our way through what feels like the longest yet fastest 10 years of our lives, we may be asking ourselves, “Are things really are as bad as they seem or are we just exaggerating?”

And to be honest...

in my opinion what we are seeing is the true face of biopsychosocial-spiritual warfare manifest in every facet of our lives. a machinery all too familiar to our brothers and sisters that exist at the intersections of lives lived under the searing eye of empire.

for the rest of us, it is the water in which we live.

the same water we drink that has long been turned to wine and which has since turned to blood.

i believe What we are experiencing is an insidious mixture of moral injury, collective grief and a collective freeze response narrated to the sound of 400 years of systematic colonization and spiritual domestication.

what we are seeing is what colonization looks like when it has nowhere else to turn but inward. like an insatiable parasite eating its own tail in some sort of ritual dedicated to a weak and jealous god.

a god that in order to feel safe requires it cage and blindfold its own unsuspecting children out of fear that it will see just how heartless and ugly the creature really is.

an entity so afraid of its own reflection that it has no choice but to shatter anything that resembles a mirror; triumphantly picking up the pieces only to end up cutting off its own face regardless.

in the words of the great (and criminally underappreciated) band Flobots,

“There is a war going on for your mind and we are the insurgents.”

what we are seeing is a spiritual war waged on us by an evil made of orange gas and can take the shape of everything all at once yet always remaining a hollow replica of the real thing. it feeds off of our fear, off of our labor, and off of the tiny bit of life we get to experience (for some reason). knows nothing

but we do.

we have access to a light that can fill every crack, mend every wound, and uplift every heart.

we only need call upon it by calling upon one another to leverage the unfathomable resource that sits untapped under the weight of bills, a for-profit medical system, poison in our food, and the ever-present threat of violence inherence in our system.

there is no such thing as law or government or inflation or debt; we are born to a planet that offers us everything we could need.

this *gestures to everything* is not “just how things were always meant to be!”

this *still gesturing just more dramatically* is not our only option!

We have choices and I don’t know about you, but this is not how I choose to experience the only life we have on the only planet we know of that holds life.

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