The tiredness you are feeling from the non-stop, nonsensical barrage of horrible news from this administration? The tiredness that makes you want to put up your phone, or to navigate away from the News app? The tiredness that makes you want to disengage from the news altogether?
Yeah, same.
I have to ask you not to.
This unrelenting flood of bad shit is by design.
Except maybe the planes. That is a series of disasters directly related to their actions.
But the rest of it is absolutely intentional. So much information into your brain can have a numbing effect. And a nauseating one.
But you must continue to pay attention.
Even if it rubs you raw and makes you sick. Even as it infuriates and makes you see red.
Because the pain and sick feeling you are feeling is the point. They want to make people so tired of the endless bombardment of shit that they take their attention off what is happening.
Imagine what they will do then. Bad things happen in the shadows. Worse things happen when attention is voluntarily given up because of the pain and sick feeling.
I don’t want to imagine that. My imagination is doing enough on its own dealing with the non-stop-daily-24-7 ream of shit.
But I know that I cannot look away, that someone has to keep paying attention and documenting this madness.
The same thing happened with covid. It became so much worse when no one was paying attention to it.
Let’s not go there again. Let’s not watch over a million Americans die because of this.
Let’s give them the attention they so desperately want. Even if we don’t want to.
Especially if they don’t want us paying attention.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 