Atrocity fatigue…

the normalizing of huge lies & injustices just to get on with life…

The Social Contract of any society is based in trust and reliance on the sources of truth. In these times, trust is one of the chiefest of casualties: We have been lied to in large and little ways our entire lives, all in the interest of someone persuading us to support with our beliefs and our resources their products, whether goods or agendas.

Education of newcomers to the society is the foundation of that society’s effectiveness in the world, the root of its strength and power. In these times we are living the results of the failure of education in our society: a majority population that has none of the skills of critical thinking, of basic scientific method, of the joys of learning and powers of knowledge.

The emotional and mental stability of a society requires trust in the reliability and good faith of authority, like children being able to feel safe, informed, and cared for by their parents. In these times we are living in the most dysfunctional kind of social family where children take authority over parents who have no notion of how to be the parents.

The solution is for those who can to cross that threshold from child-like dependency to making our own decisions, letting go of no-longer-viable beliefs and assumptions, of habits than confirm the rut we’ve been in in all our generations.

Or we can moan about it and fold our tents and let anyone else take over our former territory and be brighter and better than what we’ve let ourselves become.

…Don’t let it get you out of the fight!

_{1/2025 by CL Redding}