mainstream vs. grassroots
I had a strange epiphany today. I'm usually quite wordy on these posts ("Run On Sentience" blog, anyone?) but this time I will be brief. I don't have this entirely worked out yet. But it feels super relevant and sourceful to me. Maybe the grassroots upstarts (youth, rebellion, radical thinking, challenging the status quo, re-establishing rule by the people (not the rich oligarchs) maybe the grassroots is in fact the mainstream. Not just in that way that we think "power to the people" overthrowing dictators and political power. But in the way that we each, and all together, think of the theories and outcomes that make such a result possible. I mean, we look at the map for an election and ask ourselves "why are all of the states red?" Maybe it is because the red ones are the first to speak out, first to show up, because they are so easily sure of themselves. And maybe that is the primary poison. It is the blue ones that self-examine, that are ...