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4 years ago

Fear Itself

I get the point of all the “can’t you just wear a fucking mask, it’s not like anyone’s asking you to storm the beach at Normandy” discourse, but I think it misses something about our current predicament. 

Wearing a mask is actually a big deal. I mean for me it is. It feels really weird, it restricts your air flow, and the longer you wear it the more you have this big wet cloth sticking to your nose and mouth which makes you feel like something is very wrong. And all of that makes the whole pandemic thing real in a sensory way and not just an intellectual way. It’s scary.

I do it anyway, and just, you know, am scared, and am learning to get over it, the way I’ve always learned to deal with my various anxieties.

It occurred to me at some point that this is probably true for a lot of the anti-mask assholes too. Wearing a mask is a scary prospect. It involves acknowledging that the risk exists…and also *feeling* and *seeing* the risk in a way that you don’t have to if you don’t wear them. All the macho bullshit about “freedom” is really a screen for a completely different kind of emotion, which would be fear. Not just fear of the virus, but fear of fear itself. 

This truly deranged behavior that we see people exhibiting when asked to wear masks is of course a product of entitlement, but it is also, I am willing to bet, driven by fear. Instead of accepting their fear and dealing with it, these people turn their anxiety into anger and direct it outwards, attacking the people who ask them to mask so that they don’t have to think about *why* they’re being asked to mask. They go after people who they think they have not only the right but the *ability* to defeat, in order to protect themselves from the fear that the real danger is beyond their control.

That doesn’t make any of it right. But we would all probably benefit from acknowledging that wearing a mask is not a trivial thing that is easy for everyone to do. Wearing a mask requires us to acknowledge that we are surrounded by an invisible and potentially deadly threat, and that we have a terrifying responsibility now for the wellbeing of total strangers because your own breath could now actually kill people. It requires us to be aware, on a visceral level, of the danger we are all in.

Anyway. Good for you if you’re wearing a mask even though it makes you feel weird and unsettled and freaked out. We are grateful to you for being brave and doing it anyway.

4 years ago

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8 years ago
psyxe - Space Whale Aesop
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5 years ago
Happy Birthday Chester. We Miss You. ❤️ Feel Free To Post Your Favorite Happy / Funny / Inspiring

Happy Birthday Chester. We miss you. ❤️ Feel free to post your favorite happy / funny / inspiring memory of Chester below.

5 years ago

Mathematician. Leader. Heroine. Remembering Hidden Figure Katherine Johnson

Tonight, count the stars and remember a trailblazer. 

Mathematician. Leader. Heroine. Remembering Hidden Figure Katherine Johnson

We’re saddened by the passing of celebrated #HiddenFigures mathematician Katherine Johnson. She passed away at 101 years old. 

Mathematician. Leader. Heroine. Remembering Hidden Figure Katherine Johnson

An America hero, Johnson’s legacy of excellence broke down racial and social barriers while helping get our space agency off the ground.

Mathematician. Leader. Heroine. Remembering Hidden Figure Katherine Johnson

Once a “human computer”, she famously calculated the flight trajectory for Alan Shepard, the first American in space.

Mathematician. Leader. Heroine. Remembering Hidden Figure Katherine Johnson

And when we began to use electronic computers for calculations, astronaut John Glenn said that he’d trust the computers only after Johnson personally checked the math.

Mathematician. Leader. Heroine. Remembering Hidden Figure Katherine Johnson

As a girl, Katherine Johnson counted everything. As a mathematician, her calculations proved critical to our early successes in space travel.

Mathematician. Leader. Heroine. Remembering Hidden Figure Katherine Johnson

With slide rules and pencils, Katherine Johnson’s brilliant mind helped launch our nation into space. No longer a Hidden Figure, her bravery and commitment to excellence leaves an eternal legacy for us all.

“We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.” - Katherine Johnson 1918 -2020 

May she rest in peace, and may her powerful legacy inspire generations to come! What does Katherine Johnson’s legacy mean to you? Share in the comments. 

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4 years ago

[joe biden getting dressed] uhhh honey? where are my shoelaces

4 years ago

typewriter!

4 years ago
Linkin Park & Friends Celebrate Life In Honor Of Chester Bennington
Linkin Park & Friends Celebrate Life In Honor Of Chester Bennington
Linkin Park & Friends Celebrate Life In Honor Of Chester Bennington
Linkin Park & Friends Celebrate Life In Honor Of Chester Bennington
Linkin Park & Friends Celebrate Life In Honor Of Chester Bennington

Linkin Park & Friends Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington

5 years ago

"why would urban supercities depopulate?" plague, obviously

something to look forward to in 2020

4 years ago

The Discourse, featuring 

a) An actual puppy

b) An AI, seemingly frustrated that said puppy, despite her advantages in being a biological entity, has failed to reach the level of intellectual and emotional maturity that she, the AI, has attained. Fish, tree, etc. 

Sometimes when Phaedra comes to sit on my lap while I’m writing she will just furiously jab her nose against my keyboard and type out whole sentences of incomprehensible nonsense. She likes to help. Let us see what she will write for me now: 

u7 n nb nnh

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