'It feels like we’ve reached a collective acceptance that the jig is up. No one is okay, and that’s not okay. But what are we to do about it? What’s next?' - kaylenralph on our collective expressions of stress and stating the obvious. ➡️
suicide-prevention initiatives. At least one U.K.-based freelance journalist, Evie Muir, whose writing focuses on gender, racial, and wider social issues, takes umbrage: “Those of us with serious mental health issues have been told ‘it’s okay to not be okay’ for years,”It feels like we’ve reached a collective acceptance that the jig is up.
Mendoza-Denton said she’s hopeful that Gen Z is “able to perceive this impasse and stop tolerating the intolerable.” She referenced: the “This is fine” dog, who sits at a table while the house around him goes up in flames. “That is just the meme that captures this entire situation,” she said. “That’s the impasse. You're sort of holding out, having been told that this is fine. The house is on fire and you're just going to sit there and have a coffee until you melt.
Fresh horrors await us with every refresh of the page and it is not okay that we are all expected to just plod along, waiting for the next crisis. But there is power in the repeated, collective callout of the status quo., published in 2017, the narrator says, “‘Okay’ doesn’t mean anything.” I would posit that “okay” is actually a tipping point. On the other side of “okay” is the rage that can effect change.
“I think rage is very powerful because it violates social norms normally,” Mendoza-Denton said. “People freak out when [Greta Thunberg] starts putting their feet to the fire. They've never seen a [young woman] be both angry and right at the same time in such a powerful way, in such a smart way.” It's past time for collective action and responses that actually meet the scale of the moment, and we can’t rely on politicians alone to rise to this momentous occasion. They won’t unless we make them, so let’s try our hardest and find ways to work outside the system too. At this point, a general strike or a Green New Deal isn't radical — it's necessary. But I’m just stating the obvious, over and over again.
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