I, along with the rest of you, watch my country and a good portion of the world falling further and further into the pits of corruption and the ruins of despair. The up-coming 2020 election is one example of the dire-straits we are in and the overwhelming sense of hopelessness that many people, self-included, are feeling.
These two sentences encapsulate an excellent description of the posture of most Americans I am aware of: passive, without agency, watching, provincial, narcissistic, hopeless. It’s a state of conscious learned helplessness for which there is the prerequisite of assumed luxury.
