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Maybe I'm reconnecting
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On the weekend, some readers responded to the essay I shared just for you last week. One of them shared a podcast with Joanna Macy, an eco-philosopher who has been talking about a great reconnection since the 50s (she's in her 90s now). One of my favourite newsletters shared a link to a message from Indigenous leaders that talked about this reconnection. The intro talked about this reconnection. Greenpeace talks about this reconnection. Ecologists talk about the reconnection. A recent book I read talked about this reconnection, Dark Mountain talks about this reconnection, and so did the Deep Adaptation paper.
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We are talking about reconnection to the idea that we, my dears, are part of nature, not supreme above it. This week's theme of "reconnection" jumped out at me to the point that I'm calling cognitive bias. It's screaming in my head, but is it screaming in yours? Do we even know how to be wild anymore?
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Interestingly, I received another piece of feedback on the essay I shared. Feedback that it felt disjointed, that I didn't tie all the threads together. But maybe grief is disjointed. If you didn't read the piece last week, it's still up. It has something to do with the wild. Password freshlybrewed – I'd like some more feedback please, your responses are influencing my intentions for this essay😉 If it bums you out or you are just listening to my trigger warnings, read one of the other two posts I wrote. I stumbled upon them recently and had a little chuckle.
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Maybe I'm angry
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I'll feminist rant now and those of you who don't fucking like it can fuck right off. I'm always happy to lose readers who feel uncomfortable about righteous anger. This week in JFC WTF – Afghanistan. I look at the pictures of the Taliban and all I see is Bros. There are White Boy Bros like Miles Routledge too, who if you haven't heard, is a 21 year old British kid who went to Afghanistan for the lulz. He posted his escapades on 4Chan, stupidly doxxing himself and various safehouses in the utter shitstormery and collapse. Until, for some unfathomable reason, the British Army rescued his dumbass and gave him a seat on an evacuation plane.
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"It seems part of right-wing terrorism but it is not really. In fact, it is quite separate from it. It is a different sort of ideology,"
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This statement is being made about the incel ideology. Incels that go out and murder women, at times indiscriminately in mass shootings, are not considered terrorists because it's only against women.
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"Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentional violence to achieve political aims. It is used in this regard primarily to refer to violence during peacetime or in the context of war against non-combatants (mostly civilians and neutral military personnel)." Wikipedia entry on "terrorism" > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism
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Is it not a political aim to use misogyny to gain or keep power? Are women not civilians? Are women not terrorised in "peacetime" – on the street, in their homes, in literally every day situations – by the men who use violence against them? Is it not terrorism to abandon an entire society of women to a ruling power that has a record of terrorising women?
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While the men, so many men, are out there playing Master of the Fucking Universe, women are... You already know. Unless you're living in a dreamy blissful valley of ignorance, you must be aware. The thing is, though, on the topic of Violence Against Women, there is no cognitive bias. It isn't frequency illusion. It isn't just the Taliban and Incels. We live in a monstrous patriarchy. One that ALL women experience in some way or another. The terrorism against women is systemic, and it's really pissing me off this week. Angryfaceemoji
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Maybe I need help?
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Despite my rant, I am leaning into* the reconnection vibes, not the F the world energy this week. I'm releasing all my tension into this weird transitional space I find myself it. What about you? Are you finding yourself distracted by society or are you connecting with the natural world somehow?
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*I think maybe Sheryl Sandberg ruined this phrase...
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