But underneath, it’s the same new edgework reality.

Buffalo Bluish
‘My channel is pretty much anti-Influence‘.

Jefferson Reddish
‘Halfass Ghosttowns … I don’t discuss politics on my channel‘.

I love this thumbnail from the Bluish guy because the text is active and hopeful while the subtext suggests that some form of giving up and Quitting was the only option viably and morally left for muddling through.

I think that’s a situational truth many of us have been struggling to come to grips with.

There is a kind of liberation in it. There is also a bleakness, and a despair, and a lot of fear humming in the background.

In this new reality those of us who somehow never made it to the caves and castles of Europe are each stray cats of the mean streets, even if some of us have lucked into a semi-secure fenced enclosure to keep the dogs at bay,

most days.