How do we cope with the bad news?
Unless you are at the center of a very unfortunate Venn diagram, then a significant portion of the year’s fusillade of administrative destruction and cruelty-as-policy has more than likely sailed past you. When the ill intent is aimed this broadly, there are bound to have been more misses than hits. It is easy to see that things are going to get broadly worse and difficult to imagine exactly how or in what order. Harder still to imagine exactly how things can possibly improve from here, and when that might start happening, especially when most of the people who might begin to do something about it in the short term are proving to be such rank cowards. What this transitional moment calls for then is endurance, and the first thing we must learn to endure is the bad news.
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