the great bear always points to north star — by flightlessblrbs
a friend recently reminded me that what we know about history is pretty spotty, and the fancy guys always get the spotlight when it's usually us regular people who do the actual historical s**t. so if you’re feeling small in the enormity of this moment, please understand that rich people got to write history. they’re self-aggrandizing. it’s everyday people, striving for right relationship and a more perfect union, who have always arisen and made positive change in times like these.
and the other part is this: sometimes the task before us seems impossible. maybe there’s a risk we don’t succeed in the way we hoped but, out of profound love of our neighbors, we are trying— and that striving is worth something. it’s holy. it’s remembering our place in the great tapestry of life and knitting ourselves back together. the other part is this: sometimes regular people working together in murmuration can effect what might seem miraculous… but is actually us tapping into our ancestral wisdom.
editorial note: in the podcast i mentioned the concept of backdraft as a metaphor for this moment, but my words got all tangled up. what i meant to say is that, like in firefighting, sometimes it’s better to approach an overwhelming, volatile thing from the sides and not open the front door. the daisy chain, the project you keep hearing me talk about, is a heuristic (loose neighborhood choreography) for moving together from the sides to firefight fascism without opening the front door.
anyhow, i talk about these and other things in tonight’s podcast.
i hope some ember of what i say here feels relevant and helps light your hearth and move you into neighborly action. if it speaks to you, pass it on outside the algorithm. let this story shape how you move through your neighborhood.
Thanks for reading my work! If you like this weirdo’s content, follow me as I shift my content to a free Patreon, in order to get outside this nonsense, anxiety-inducing algorithm. Weirdo’s Patreon will go live October 13th. There you’ll find Weirdo’s blogs (including vintage weirdo archives from Substack), flightlessblrbs’s pro-democracy art, a new podcast called “My Weirdo Friends,” and a series of hosted community discussions to focus on the tactical art of neighborliness during times such as these.
