Saturday January 7, 2023; 9:49 PM EST
- I was working on a new poem about a progression of things becoming normal. Not sure it will be any good, but the progression seems important to write down somewhere. Everybody in one wing of the society having guns becomes normal, and everybody in that wing taking up rhetoric that presents the other wing as traitors becomes normal, and you hear about groups training for paramilitary encounters that they expect will be coming--that becomes normal too. Guns in place, justifying rhetoric in place, training in place, expectations in place, all normalized in one part of society. What's holding them back at this point? Not sure much is.#