I have had a really emotional night, having watched both “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once” and the second episode of “For All Mankind,” season 3. Really in my feels but also feeling mind-expanded, future-thinking and hopeful. It was a little bonkers to take a step back in time and read tonight’s letter after that.
I have had a really emotional night, having watched both “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once” and the second episode of “For All Mankind,” season 3. Really in my feels but also feeling mind-expanded, future-thinking and hopeful. It was a little bonkers to take a step back in time and read tonight’s letter after that.
I love how HCR writes because it feels approachable, informative and like she’s writing directly to me, to make sure I understand the deeper meaning of everything that’s happening so much all the time. Even such a disturbing historical account can be made enjoyable by such good writing.
Then I got to the part about Nixon claiming to be not guilty, to essential DARVO the entire situation.
I was shocked at how blindingly clear the parallel stories line up, how history is reflecting current events and current events are mirroring history; lined up like storyboard cards with mirror images facing each other, marching in a row to eternity.
I was astonished at the dots I was connecting - that Heather was exposing to me with such straightforward but compelling language.
I said out loud “it’s like they have a playbook. It’s all so specific, like a recipe they followed, but I don’t understand - how could they do such a thing? How is it possible?”
The final paragraph about Roger Stone was a cold glass of water to the face.
I think these dots are connecting more clearly for me right now because of my fresh understanding (kind of, a little bit) of experience between the multiverses, and the threads that connect the present to the past. It occurs to me that this is one more legacy that can be directly attributed to slavery.
This poison seeps from that centuries old wound because these men - these “elite” and landowning men who have always declared themselves above the rules that apply to the common man, the poor man, the slave - they have never been held truly accountable for the damage they have unleashed on the country; damage visited on generation after generation, damage that infects the minds of racists, that traumatizes families and breaks down the fibers that knit together communities. They have not truly been punished, and not in a meaningful way that sent a message to the rest of the likeminded, privileged men in power. They have not made amends and instead expected the rest of us to forgive, to hate the sin but love the sinner, to sweep it under the rug where they can refuse to acknowledge their abuse and feign ignorance when we call out their continued abusive actions.
They’ve never *not* been able to do anything they want.
And because they have never been held accountable, they believe they don’t have to be. They believe they never will. They believe the rest of us cannot hold them accountable, nor that we can mete out justice as it is deserved.
We must not fail to hold them accountable. Our future depends on it.
I've got to re-order Apple TV. "For All Mankind" is the ONLY show in the last 10 years that has absolutely captivated my attention (well, except for the historical reenactment series where historical archeologists do things like build castles, and work for a year on Tudor or Edwardian farms using tools and foods of the time period. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydoRAbpWfCU ).
Your drawing of the line of time connecting the present to the past, with slavery at the root is really well done.
Thank you, that connection was so clear to me and I couldn't type fast enough to get this 'aha' out of my head.
YES. I didn't think I would like For All Mankind but I got obsessed with it because the story is told so well and it's clearly been fully thought through. My favorite part after watching the first episode was a series of supplemental 'news' episodes that show what happened in each year between season 2 and 3. They absolutely nailed the immersive 'is this real?' experience!
I get the same from HCR and always look to her last smacking paragraphs. Earlier last year I suggested she reminded me of a Lauren Ball - Bogart movie scene where Ball sashayes away after having dropped the F-bomb to a buck of pseudo-elites. The grace of the move and the incisive comment-summation. That scene played again today. But it is Saturday and MPR is doing Saturday at the Movies. Sandy's story take top billing today. How tragic.
I'm right there with you. I'm reading a 1935 Dennis Wheatley novel called the Eunuch of Stanbul which practically offers a formula for todays situation in the Muslim nations. The oligatchies must think life is a chess game.
Please accept my sympathies to a certain extent. I just watch a few bits of each on the internet, not having tv, and I feel justified again for not having tv.
I have had a really emotional night, having watched both “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once” and the second episode of “For All Mankind,” season 3. Really in my feels but also feeling mind-expanded, future-thinking and hopeful. It was a little bonkers to take a step back in time and read tonight’s letter after that.
I love how HCR writes because it feels approachable, informative and like she’s writing directly to me, to make sure I understand the deeper meaning of everything that’s happening so much all the time. Even such a disturbing historical account can be made enjoyable by such good writing.
Then I got to the part about Nixon claiming to be not guilty, to essential DARVO the entire situation.
I was shocked at how blindingly clear the parallel stories line up, how history is reflecting current events and current events are mirroring history; lined up like storyboard cards with mirror images facing each other, marching in a row to eternity.
I was astonished at the dots I was connecting - that Heather was exposing to me with such straightforward but compelling language.
I said out loud “it’s like they have a playbook. It’s all so specific, like a recipe they followed, but I don’t understand - how could they do such a thing? How is it possible?”
The final paragraph about Roger Stone was a cold glass of water to the face.
I think these dots are connecting more clearly for me right now because of my fresh understanding (kind of, a little bit) of experience between the multiverses, and the threads that connect the present to the past. It occurs to me that this is one more legacy that can be directly attributed to slavery.
This poison seeps from that centuries old wound because these men - these “elite” and landowning men who have always declared themselves above the rules that apply to the common man, the poor man, the slave - they have never been held truly accountable for the damage they have unleashed on the country; damage visited on generation after generation, damage that infects the minds of racists, that traumatizes families and breaks down the fibers that knit together communities. They have not truly been punished, and not in a meaningful way that sent a message to the rest of the likeminded, privileged men in power. They have not made amends and instead expected the rest of us to forgive, to hate the sin but love the sinner, to sweep it under the rug where they can refuse to acknowledge their abuse and feign ignorance when we call out their continued abusive actions.
They’ve never *not* been able to do anything they want.
And because they have never been held accountable, they believe they don’t have to be. They believe they never will. They believe the rest of us cannot hold them accountable, nor that we can mete out justice as it is deserved.
We must not fail to hold them accountable. Our future depends on it.
Great comment, Maigen. What's DARVO?
Deflect, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.
The tactics of abusers when confronted or exposed.
Thanks. Added it to my dictionary.
Ah - I will remember that. It is used with impunity today. Fox, Republican party.
I've got to re-order Apple TV. "For All Mankind" is the ONLY show in the last 10 years that has absolutely captivated my attention (well, except for the historical reenactment series where historical archeologists do things like build castles, and work for a year on Tudor or Edwardian farms using tools and foods of the time period. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydoRAbpWfCU ).
Your drawing of the line of time connecting the present to the past, with slavery at the root is really well done.
Thank you, that connection was so clear to me and I couldn't type fast enough to get this 'aha' out of my head.
YES. I didn't think I would like For All Mankind but I got obsessed with it because the story is told so well and it's clearly been fully thought through. My favorite part after watching the first episode was a series of supplemental 'news' episodes that show what happened in each year between season 2 and 3. They absolutely nailed the immersive 'is this real?' experience!
I get the same from HCR and always look to her last smacking paragraphs. Earlier last year I suggested she reminded me of a Lauren Ball - Bogart movie scene where Ball sashayes away after having dropped the F-bomb to a buck of pseudo-elites. The grace of the move and the incisive comment-summation. That scene played again today. But it is Saturday and MPR is doing Saturday at the Movies. Sandy's story take top billing today. How tragic.
I'm right there with you. I'm reading a 1935 Dennis Wheatley novel called the Eunuch of Stanbul which practically offers a formula for todays situation in the Muslim nations. The oligatchies must think life is a chess game.
Or — a chess game reflects life.
Please accept my sympathies to a certain extent. I just watch a few bits of each on the internet, not having tv, and I feel justified again for not having tv.