and fantasy is fine, but yeah, hope at least stands a chance. i think that is maybe the only reason most of us are still doing okay after everything that's gone on. hoping for the best. hoping that the project joanne's talking about won't fuck us over. what are the chances?
I think it's certainly going to fuck us over. She's describing a situation where they have a finite amount of resources and too many holes that need patching with them.
It's as though they have ten balls to juggle, but only the capacity to keep nine in the air at any given time. One ball will always be on the ground; they're only being judicious about which ball ends up there, and careful never to let any one ball languish down there for too long.
so a rotating cycle that we may never actually truly break and fix because there are too many things to juggle. maybe you have a point. it is really hard to say when they keep withholding information for us. you think there's really no hope of ever improving on that?
I wouldn't say it's hopeless in the long run. But for the short-term? We simply don't have the resources to do anything but react at this point. Changing something seems as though it would require action, and as best I can tell, we've yet to find any real opportunity to achieve that.
which is the shitty part because if we are just supposed to be reacting without changing, it's like someone else is dictating our lives, entering prompts for us and controlling us from somewhere else. on the other hand this has been happening for almost a year so maybe the tides will change soon. they have to get bored of doing everything themselves soon.
Either that or someone will fire the shot that starts a revolution, figuratively speaking. Toss a match and light the powder keg. Maybe it's only a matter of time.
i've asked people what the likelihood is that someone causes an explosion before month's end. i did not even think of it that way, but maybe you're right. that's a little scary to think about but it could be what we need, too.
Unfortunately, I'm not the one to do it. I might support such a revolution if it were to take off, but I'm not altogether inclined to be the one who throws the match.
Too much Japanese upbringing, perhaps. Too many reminders of what happens to the nail that sticks out.
i doubt anyone would blame you. it sounds scary being the first to do it, especially when the nail that sticks out gets smashed into place. conformity bluhbluhbluh... maybe it's both. but someone is going to start something soon. there's no way they won't.
Oh, I'm sure some people might. There's a certain cowardice to only stepping up after someone else has done it first, I think, but that's simply how things are, sometimes.
at the same time there is also a difference between cowardice and caution. cowardice would be if you didn't step up at all, probably. normally i would say yes? i would like to solve things, see what is really happening and maybe make sure said-revolution doesn't get too out of hand since things like that escalate really fast. but i have other people to think about and what they would want me to do.
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and fantasy is fine, but yeah, hope at least stands a chance.
i think that is maybe the only reason most of us are still doing okay after everything that's gone on. hoping for the best.
hoping that the project joanne's talking about won't fuck us over. what are the chances?
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Or do you want to leave that as a rhetorical question and not receive an answer at all.
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It's as though they have ten balls to juggle, but only the capacity to keep nine in the air at any given time. One ball will always be on the ground; they're only being judicious about which ball ends up there, and careful never to let any one ball languish down there for too long.
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maybe you have a point. it is really hard to say when they keep withholding information for us.
you think there's really no hope of ever improving on that?
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on the other hand this has been happening for almost a year so maybe the tides will change soon.
they have to get bored of doing everything themselves soon.
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i did not even think of it that way, but maybe you're right.
that's a little scary to think about but it could be what we need, too.
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Too much Japanese upbringing, perhaps. Too many reminders of what happens to the nail that sticks out.
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conformity bluhbluhbluh...
maybe it's both. but someone is going to start something soon. there's no way they won't.
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Are you going to join in, if and when it does?
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normally i would say yes? i would like to solve things, see what is really happening and maybe make sure said-revolution doesn't get too out of hand since things like that escalate really fast. but i have other people to think about and what they would want me to do.
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i already did the dumb thing once in a past lifetime so maybe this lifetime it's better to do it this way.
depending.
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i am not the only reckless or sacrificial one here. so i have to watch just as close, too.