• RobotsLeftHand@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      This is what really hit me reading Mark Twain’s autobiography when he started describing the atrocities by the US government against Native Americans.

      His autobiography was dictated to a stenographer which he then edited later. This way it has the feeling of a simple discussion with Twain, and because of this the discussion of tragedy as a current event, just as you and I would chat over a coffee, really hits home how little we’ve changed.

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      7 months ago

      I often come across as cold and unsympathetic, severe and uncompassionate.

      That’s because I’m extremely empathetic, toward all life. I don’t even kill bugs. But I know too much. I’m aware of mass suffering around the world, needless and preventable.

      I’ll give myself little spaces of time to just sit and think about everything, and it just turns into ugly weeping. You can’t function like that. The only way I can get through my day is by turning that dial waaaay down outside of my designated mourning time.