Dispatches from the Empire


Currently reading: War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges 📚

Sometimes I think my lifetime was front-loaded with goodness; that so much of life until now has been good, and at some point, this can’t possibly hold. The excess and craven want of my culture will finally crest and begin to devour itself. In doing so, we find a truth we’ve worked for so long to avoid.

We’re out of balance, and imbalance doesn’t last.

Honestly, what makes me more depressed: that a course correction sure feels as though it’s on the horizon? Or that it might not be?