“About time” is my brain’s refrain, since “boring dystopia” has been my intellectual mantra since the Carter era when everything else was post-60s boosterism, but it’s still rough sledding. “Good-faith” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your essay, when it’s all but impossible to have good faith in “good faith.” The violence and power is all on the other side, with marches and good intentions and selective outrage a pitiful squeak in response.
Really fine essay - there’s a sister one today at counterpunch: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/24/how-to-not-get-along-with-apocalypses-in-other-countries/
“About time” is my brain’s refrain, since “boring dystopia” has been my intellectual mantra since the Carter era when everything else was post-60s boosterism, but it’s still rough sledding. “Good-faith” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your essay, when it’s all but impossible to have good faith in “good faith.” The violence and power is all on the other side, with marches and good intentions and selective outrage a pitiful squeak in response.