I'm behind on The Moon Etherium (surprised?), but that gives me even more incentive to catch up on it! (You may be pleased to know that I lost forty-five of sleep the other week due to failed will saves on TME vs. bedtime. But life without bedtime is unpleasant enough that I get a lot of bonuses on that will save, and bedtime eventually won out.)
Oooh, I haven't read/watched V for Vendetta, but that reminds me of the other thing I was going to say: the people on my Twitter timeline posting "life under authoritarian regimes is okay for most people" stuff were definitely doing it from a place of pointing out that you don't wake up one morning and discover that it is now We Are Living In A YA Dystopia Day -- it just happens gradually, bit by bit, and your life changes in subtle ways until at some point you're there and didn't notice, but it's not so bad after all, is it? That there's not going to be a watershed moment where you can stand up and put your atheist/agnostic/Christian/Jewish/whatever self down as Muslim on the religious registration form, and you probably won't even realize the registration has happened unless you have Muslim friends who talk about it. I'm sorry that those nuances were getting lost in your Twitter feed. But then, Twitter's not really very good at nuance, is it? And I say that as someone who's definitely guilty of checking (and posting to) Twitter more than LJ.
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Date: 2017-01-22 08:37 pm (UTC)Oooh, I haven't read/watched V for Vendetta, but that reminds me of the other thing I was going to say: the people on my Twitter timeline posting "life under authoritarian regimes is okay for most people" stuff were definitely doing it from a place of pointing out that you don't wake up one morning and discover that it is now We Are Living In A YA Dystopia Day -- it just happens gradually, bit by bit, and your life changes in subtle ways until at some point you're there and didn't notice, but it's not so bad after all, is it? That there's not going to be a watershed moment where you can stand up and put your atheist/agnostic/Christian/Jewish/whatever self down as Muslim on the religious registration form, and you probably won't even realize the registration has happened unless you have Muslim friends who talk about it. I'm sorry that those nuances were getting lost in your Twitter feed. But then, Twitter's not really very good at nuance, is it? And I say that as someone who's definitely guilty of checking (and posting to) Twitter more than LJ.