I’m really going back to my hippie roots this year.
And it’s so funny to me because my parents pretty much went on the usual trajectory that many of their cohort did…starting out in the 🌼 “flower power” ☮️ 1960s California beach subculture and ending up—well let’s just say quite on the opposite side of things. (My dad at least…hard to say where my birth mom would be now as she died 20 years ago…)
Whereas I had a corporate jobby-job and owned my own home in my early 20s (the late aughts), and now I have downsized radically (glory be to #minimalism!) and am quite ready to tear down the whole fucking establishment and join a commune or something. 😂
I don’t know what my Young Evangelical Republican self would have thought of his older self these two decades later, but I can tell you one thing: I was actually pretty damn miserable back then on a regular basis, and now? The world may have gone to shit but way down deep in my bones…I have never felt happier. 😌
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"html": "<p><strong>I\u2019m really going back to my hippie roots this year.</strong></p>\n\n<p>And it\u2019s so funny to me because my parents pretty much went on the usual trajectory that many of their cohort did\u2026starting out in the \ud83c\udf3c \u201cflower power\u201d \u262e\ufe0f 1960s California beach subculture and ending up\u2014well let\u2019s just say quite on the opposite side of things. (My dad at least\u2026hard to say where my birth mom would be now as she died 20 years ago\u2026)</p>\n\n<p>Whereas I had a corporate jobby-job and owned my own home in my early 20s (the late aughts), and now I have downsized radically (glory be to <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/minimalism\">#minimalism</a>!) and am quite ready to tear down the whole fucking establishment and join a commune or something. \ud83d\ude02</p>\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know what my Young Evangelical Republican self would have thought of his older self these two decades later, but I can tell you one thing: I was actually <em>pretty damn miserable</em> back then on a regular basis, and now? The world may have gone to shit but way down deep in my bones\u2026<strong>I have never felt happier.</strong> \ud83d\ude0c</p>\n\n<p>P.S. <em>Eat the rich.</em></p>",
"text": "I\u2019m really going back to my hippie roots this year.\n\nAnd it\u2019s so funny to me because my parents pretty much went on the usual trajectory that many of their cohort did\u2026starting out in the \ud83c\udf3c \u201cflower power\u201d \u262e\ufe0f 1960s California beach subculture and ending up\u2014well let\u2019s just say quite on the opposite side of things. (My dad at least\u2026hard to say where my birth mom would be now as she died 20 years ago\u2026)\n\nWhereas I had a corporate jobby-job and owned my own home in my early 20s (the late aughts), and now I have downsized radically (glory be to #minimalism!) and am quite ready to tear down the whole fucking establishment and join a commune or something. \ud83d\ude02\n\nI don\u2019t know what my Young Evangelical Republican self would have thought of his older self these two decades later, but I can tell you one thing: I was actually pretty damn miserable back then on a regular basis, and now? The world may have gone to shit but way down deep in my bones\u2026I have never felt happier. \ud83d\ude0c\n\nP.S. Eat the rich."
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"html": "<blockquote>\n <h2><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThLlfMvMRY\"></a></h2>\n\n <p>I don\u2019t think it\u2019s hyperbole to say we as a country have never quite seen anything like this particularly appalling spectacle before.</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I was on the road and very busy most of the day, so uncharacteristically I hadn\u2019t checked the news for a number of hours. I finally got ready to settle in for the evening, and my brother sent me this link of Chris Hayes talking about the Trump-Vance-Zelenskyy blowup/meltdown, so I watched it.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Mr. Hayes, my good sir, it is not hyperbole in the least.</strong> And it\u2019s hard for me to put into words how I\u2019m even able to process what I witnessed.</p>\n\n<p>I couldn\u2019t even watch it in one go. I had to pause several times to allow my brain to reconstitute its proper mental state in order to keep watching the scene, because <em>I was having meltdowns</em> just trying to get through the recording.</p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s inadequate to say I was shocked, horrified, aghast, and completely grossed out by this sorry, sorry display. Perhaps the most relevant emotion I could put a name to is\u2026<em>grief?</em></p>\n\n<p>Seeing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2014a man who has sacrificed so much and endured so much suffering on behalf of his people\u2014get \u201cdressed down\u201d by a raving madman lunatic and his pissy poor-excuse-for-a-man sidekick VP who between them both wouldn\u2019t know true sacrifice, honor, or courage if it came up and bit them on their putrid asses\u2026<strong>all I can do is weep.</strong></p>\n\n<p><em>I weep for the people of Ukraine.</em></p>\n\n<p>And I weep for us, the people of the United States of American who must endure the dismantling of everything we\u2019ve ever known to be good and true.</p>\n\n<p>Like Chris Hays said, American certainly has plenty of sins to answer for with a number of foreign policy blunders over the past 80 years of geo <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/politics\">#politics</a>. Our hands are far from clean. Yet there was never a wavering of at least <em>the public defense</em> of the principles of fighting for democracy, freedom, and the rule of law.</p>\n\n<p>Trump, that Asshat-in-Chief\u2014who was voted into office based on a steaming pile of horseshit masquerading as factual content\u2014has completely destroyed what little respect we might have had left. <strong>It\u2019s gone. It\u2019s all gone.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Every world democracy must now consider the U.S. a threat. <em>We are not safe.</em> And my people are not safe from our own government.</p>\n\n<p><strong>This are dark, dark days\u2026darker than any I\u2019ve ever seen in my forty-some-odd years of life.</strong> I really cannot say where it all goes from here. I\u2026just\u2026don\u2019t\u2026know.</p>",
"text": "I don\u2019t think it\u2019s hyperbole to say we as a country have never quite seen anything like this particularly appalling spectacle before.\n\n\n\nI was on the road and very busy most of the day, so uncharacteristically I hadn\u2019t checked the news for a number of hours. I finally got ready to settle in for the evening, and my brother sent me this link of Chris Hayes talking about the Trump-Vance-Zelenskyy blowup/meltdown, so I watched it.\n\nMr. Hayes, my good sir, it is not hyperbole in the least. And it\u2019s hard for me to put into words how I\u2019m even able to process what I witnessed.\n\nI couldn\u2019t even watch it in one go. I had to pause several times to allow my brain to reconstitute its proper mental state in order to keep watching the scene, because I was having meltdowns just trying to get through the recording.\n\nIt\u2019s inadequate to say I was shocked, horrified, aghast, and completely grossed out by this sorry, sorry display. Perhaps the most relevant emotion I could put a name to is\u2026grief?\n\nSeeing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2014a man who has sacrificed so much and endured so much suffering on behalf of his people\u2014get \u201cdressed down\u201d by a raving madman lunatic and his pissy poor-excuse-for-a-man sidekick VP who between them both wouldn\u2019t know true sacrifice, honor, or courage if it came up and bit them on their putrid asses\u2026all I can do is weep.\n\nI weep for the people of Ukraine.\n\nAnd I weep for us, the people of the United States of American who must endure the dismantling of everything we\u2019ve ever known to be good and true.\n\nLike Chris Hays said, American certainly has plenty of sins to answer for with a number of foreign policy blunders over the past 80 years of geo #politics. Our hands are far from clean. Yet there was never a wavering of at least the public defense of the principles of fighting for democracy, freedom, and the rule of law.\n\nTrump, that Asshat-in-Chief\u2014who was voted into office based on a steaming pile of horseshit masquerading as factual content\u2014has completely destroyed what little respect we might have had left. It\u2019s gone. It\u2019s all gone.\n\nEvery world democracy must now consider the U.S. a threat. We are not safe. And my people are not safe from our own government.\n\nThis are dark, dark days\u2026darker than any I\u2019ve ever seen in my forty-some-odd years of life. I really cannot say where it all goes from here. I\u2026just\u2026don\u2019t\u2026know."
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