When I write about things that anger me I get depressed.
Those culture war articles I put in my feed really make me depressed.
I keep feeling that if I can just figure out how to express to people who get too caught up in the left/right split that it is the false dichotomy of the split which is destroying us and not the opposition on the other side of the divide.
The war is the thing that is causing the misery ... not the soldiers in the other army.
So, what I am hoping to create a set of arguments I could use to help people diffuse the political tension that is creeping into their lives ... but if I do it wrong, I will just increase the tension.
Yeah it’s certainly a dilemma. I have had to make choices on whether or not I would engage a friend or family member on certain topics. The advice I was given was to only say something if I could say it out of love. I am not there yet. Anything I say would be out of anger. So I stay silent while I work on myself.