Revolution Fatigue
Still from The Royal Tenenbaums, 2001
Some days this world continues to defy belief. The news breaks our hearts. It leaves us mute in shock, harried and hopeless. The scales feel tipped too far in the wrong direction, the hurdles tower over us and faith jumps a bus for the coast. Revolution leaves everyone weary and worm down, especially on days where it feels like the needle hasn't really moved at all.
For many years now we have been shown, relentlessly and ragefully, how those in power don't care about anything more than staying put. The deck stacked so the house always wins and players pay the price. The old system broken beyond saving, a trail of death and destruction on its wake.
The political is always personal because of who it effects, saves or kills. Even in these days of opinion saturation and social media infiltration into every aspect of our daily lives, it seems we have forgotten the power of people. A sleeping spell enacted at will by those who govern, that got there by courting its opposite.
We know one bad egg can ruin our day but fail to imagine how our collective chorus could change the game altogether. Beyond outside allegiances that never repay borrowed will, there is still naught more capable of change than individuals who commit their hearts and minds to a cause or calling.
Fortunately this is a clearer week in the stars, if not the world. A stocktake and a sense maker, best spent letting your eyes wander beyond screens and screams. Good for going back to the basics of care and humanity, reaching out and in. Touching base gently with another ground zero, getting grounded in present reality and still inspired by the dreams that persist through the stench of these burning times.
We can cultivate hope in the face of its shadow and fish fresh determination from the swamp. We can fix our hearts on a point and let mighty forces draw us towards it. We are each still here to somehow save our world. Listen to the voice within that sings how into your bones.
This week's Channel is brimming with ways and means to navigate the fray and available freely to all for the next few days.
Words c. Kerrie Basha 2023