Normal was never normal, it was an illusion that allowed the wealthy and powerful to become wealthier and consolidate power. That illusion is flickering and has to be replaced. The question is whether the replacement will be mass violence or a realer, more human future.

There is no choice. To concede the future is to allow mass antidemocratic forces to kill and purge and plunge us into a dystopic future as long as the planet holds out.

The choice is to make a choice.

The more I study history the more I realize it’s just eras of illusions that hold sway and allow exploitation until the illusion gives out and a new reality takes its place.

The future belongs to people who recognize this and make a choice.

What we have seen over the past few years are moves by people who recognize the current era is ready for a change. These are the Bannons, the Dugins, the Koch’s, the tech giants. And they’re focused on increasing exploitation and eroding democracy.

They can’t write the future.

It’s the same story for centuries. People believing the current reality will never end, that they’ll see the apocalypse or a utopia, that nothing could ever replace the order.

And then it does. And what happens depends on which groups are the ones to enact the change.