Wait, Wait! We’ve Started Out on the Wrong Foot

There’s a change in the wind, can you feel it? There seems to be a sense of foreboding, like when we’re watching a disaster film where, before the catastrophe hits, the world is strangely quiet and then the birds suddenly scatter off the trees, or a deer sniffs the air and then bolts away. In our theater chairs, separate casual observers, we don’t know what’s about to strike: a comet? A tidal wave? A super-killer tornado? Aliens? The air around us is still — too still. California braces for another fire season, while over 40% of the US experiences drought. “Q” and the far right ‘digital soldiers’ have gone eerily quiet. Generation Z, raised in constant turbulence and robbed of a future, stalls out in the wake of 2020. And COVID left us with the silent void of over 600,000 American lives. While we’d like to comfort ourselves that life is returning to ‘normal’ after lockdown, something is not quite right. Can you feel the odd undercurrent? Can you see the cracks starting to show in society right now? For those who are sensitive, something seems irrevocably ominous, skewed, and incongruent. But what is it exactly? Humanity remains in their theater chairs, observing, waiting, watching, scrolling, posting and Tik Tokking. Maybe we’re frozen, or in denial. Cocktails are served while the orchestra plays on the titanic. <a href="https://kelly-equus.medium.com/wait-wait-weve-started-out-on-the-wrong-foot-b3c8118dda61">Learn More</a>