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All right, listen up, nerds, because I'm only going to say this once. The work didn't start in 2016 and it's not going to end tomorrow regardless of what happens. Tomorrow isn't going to be the dawn of a bright new age and it's not going to be the end of the world.
Will there be large-scale protests & violence from law enforcement & extremists, within which we who fight for justice can only seek to alleviate individual suffering in an increasingly hostile environment? Absolutely. Has that been the case nonstop for our lifetimes? Yes.
I really think there's an eschatological impulse running through a lot of the emotional landscape around the next few days that's seeped into secular culture from evangelical christianity.
A lot of us find ourselves desperately wanting to believe that the world of sin will be consumed by cleansing fire or whatever & the worthy will be reborn in socialist utopia, which leads us to compulsively try to identify the when and how of some large-scale total breaking point
that will signal the impending utopia. When we remove the eschatological lens from our vision of the future, we can know that that's not a real thing, and that trying to catch that horizon will keep our focus away from where it needs to be.
Eyes on the prize, team. We're not here for the apocalypse. We're here for each other.
