Sunday evening self-care open thread: Sir Pat Stew and Neil Diamond, plus #ClubQuarantine
As we hunker down, unsure of what our future holds; as we hunker down, with alarming reports of unemployment reaching as high as 30%; as we hunker down, bereft of leadership; as we hunker down, remember this: it would have been a sucker's bet during the totality of human history that we'd make it this far. War, pestilence, famine, an asteroid; the universe is designed to kill us. And yet here we are. Here we endure. We hairless apes are amazingly short-sighted; and yet we produce Mozart, Wole Soyinka, Emily Dickinson. Despite our self-destructive impulses, we survive, and we thrive. And sometimes it does take a shock to the system like COVID-19 to shake us out of our torpor, to upset our apathy. Too many of us, even now, see this as an inconvenience. But make no mistake: this episode is as epoch making for our nation and the world as the Great Depression and World War II were. We are on the cusp of a new world order, one which is more interconnected, one which values the common person, one which will put paid to the pretensions of the powerful. Revolutions have begun for less.
As we go into the evening, some of the best of us.
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) March 21, 2020
— Jeff Dwoskin (@bigmacher) March 22, 2020Also, if you have a chance, tune in to #ClubQuarantine tonight and dance in resistance to the Masque of the Red Death.