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@lovendures I will admit it’s been a roller coaster of a 10 days for me, but I first wanted to thank you for your post above about “it will come” - I’ve been feeling a similar “stuck” (other thread) as many others. While we were at my mom’s over break she’s begun ret-conning the last few years and now focuses her attention on Biden gaffes as sure fire signs that he’s not in charge. Her theory is dementia and that he’s not really running the country. We had a few go arounds.
Your reminder above is also a question for the good of the group - I will try my own readings on this this week and will report back here. Are we still moving toward the great unraveling and turning point? The voter supression tactics should be slam dunks against the GQP, and while maybe it’s just my little insular deep conservative area up here, but it doesn’t seem to be making the kind of waves I had hoped it would in the places we need to win 2022 and beyond.
I am trying to remind myself of the reading I did before somewhere in here - on Bidens’ first 100 days and his first 2 years in office. On both I read “It’s a slog, but it’s successful.” I’m hopeful my next read still gives me the hope I had a few months ago.
And there is a LOT to be hopeful for - the record number of vaccinations. The length of effectiveness. The unemployment numbers going down last month... I’m just not hearing enough about consequences for folks like Matt Gaetz (lord I dislike that man) and Mitch McConnell’s. And the voter suppression tactics really have me freaked out.
We'll, what is the The Great Unraveling?
Take a ball of yarn. I don't know about you, but I have yet to see a beautiful tightly woven ball of yarn unwind in a smooth and simple way. Sometimes it is unwound to make a sweater, blanket or hat, at other times a craft. If a cat finds it, it wobbles, goes all over the place and often gets tangled.
One thing is for sure, Even if it does get wound up, it NEVER can be wound up again in that same tight ball of old.
Whatever manner our unwinding occurs, the winding back up when it is over will look different. Our nation, our world has changed.
Some may long for the old nice and neat tightly wound ball of yarn. Others will embrace that which has been newly created.
I am quite ready for the creation of something new and am done with storing the potential of "what might be".
I think perhaps while we are trying to carefully unwind the ball, we are also weary of the cat who would love to wreck havoc on all the cherished potential the ball of yarn holds.
Dannyboy, I believe what you got is correct.
It will be a slog, but it will be successful. We can't go back to what was, too much yarn has been unwound. We just aren't collectively ready yet for the full manifestation of all that potential.
@lovendures I needed that. Thank you. The "Stuck" thread is really resonating with me right now.
@lovendures What a great analogy to explain the Great Unraveling. I, too, have been really concerned that the good old boys club was going to get away with all they evil they have done. But your take on how things will be changing gives me lots of hope, now I just have to be patient and watch. Thank you, you made my day.
Joanna Macy writes about how the Great Unravelling and Great Turning are not linear. Rather, they are occurring at the same time. This dual movement is a principal of spiral dynamics (I believe) and harkens to the Latin origins of the word "emergency'; emergens means to go downward and then outward to a new state: emergence.
So yes, @lovendures is correct. We can’t go back to what was. But those of us who are ready can choose what energies we want to link into: unravelling or turning? That’s why I don’t read/watch the news anymore. I’m more interested in the turning to a new phase for society. Our traditional storytellers (news organizations) don’t know how to recognize the signs of that new dispensation. But unplug and the indicators are all around you in nature.
I wrote an essay about this a year ago, so I’m going to stop right here ? .
Thanks Coyote. This is the second time today Joanne Macy has been mentioned in a conversation today. Once here on the site from you and once on the phone. Something to pay attention to.
Unplugging can be really helpful too. I too am very interested in the turning.
A fourth lawsuit has been filed in Georgia:
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgia-voter-suppression-bill-aajc/
For information about cases in other states for similar reasons, you can explore them here on Democracy Docket:
https://www.democracydocket.com/case_type/active-cases/
And now a fifth lawsuit in Georgia:
https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgia-voter-suppression-voteamerica/