Post-Fact World

Despite being told to suck it up buttercup, I've still be doing plenty of reading about the Election and how people are wrangling with their fears and shock from this years events. I wouldn't say I've settled myself on the potential fallout that we face in the next four years but there have been some great pieces to provide some more eloquent perspective. It's at least pleasant to know others share the same hesitation about the future and want to make sense of it as well.

• Why We're Post-Fact - this is, admittedly, a little too intellectual for its own good but the points it makes about the media, overall techno-influence and how the parallels of Russia propaganda parlay into world events.
• The Next Best Thing - a straightforward, easy-to-read, oddly comforting take on how we can't go backwards. While typically this blog is a bit more humorous in its leanings, this is an excellent take on why we need to stop striving to go back to a time that can't exist again.

I don't like to stir the pot too much in the political realm. I am very left leaning and assume that most of my readers are as well. I definitely don't want to marginalize the plight of someone wanting to make their lives and communities better through a better economy but I refuse to believe Donald Trump's kind is the one to get us there.