but the part about "unjust peace" resonates with me in some way.
I used it because it resonated with me as well (it's a term described by MLK, lambasting "white moderates.")
Personally you nailed it- everyone knows (for the right or wrong reasons- hell, nowadays most can recognize at least some of the right reasons) that the system is wholly unsustainable, and wholly unjustifiable. Anyone with the decency to recognize it (sadly this is less common) can recognize the sheer and utter horror of the system- something that has always been present, but which now has reached such intolerable levels once again not seen in a century. And people are sleepwalking, or even if they are aware, trying to look the other way, and it's like living in an upside-down, bizzaro world.
So I can put on a face and do the individualist lifestyle dance to a point, but sometimes it feels like putting on a brave face for a kid. I know that would probably sound demeaning to people and places it applies to
Maybe it sounds demeaning. In truth (while I'm aware sometimes there are good reasons- maybe even "oftentimes" depending on context) it's both accurate and deserved IMO. We're doing the song-and-dance while modern-day Hitlers like Genocide Joe, Holocaust Harris, and the mean orange man (and the league of western fascists- equally irredeemable ghouls ranging from Macron to Trudeau or Scholz, etc) march us all to armageddon (and compared to what else is on the table, that may be an optimistic outcome- a quick death). And as you said, the default position- even if it's not fascist, or even has some awareness and criticism of liberalism, is still just poisoned, biased, or will happily look the other way (for "peace," after all) as all of the above trample over any notion of basic human decency.
I used it because it resonated with me as well (it's a term described by MLK, lambasting "white moderates.")
Personally you nailed it- everyone knows (for the right or wrong reasons- hell, nowadays most can recognize at least some of the right reasons) that the system is wholly unsustainable, and wholly unjustifiable. Anyone with the decency to recognize it (sadly this is less common) can recognize the sheer and utter horror of the system- something that has always been present, but which now has reached such intolerable levels once again not seen in a century. And people are sleepwalking, or even if they are aware, trying to look the other way, and it's like living in an upside-down, bizzaro world.
Maybe it sounds demeaning. In truth (while I'm aware sometimes there are good reasons- maybe even "oftentimes" depending on context) it's both accurate and deserved IMO. We're doing the song-and-dance while modern-day Hitlers like Genocide Joe, Holocaust Harris, and the mean orange man (and the league of western fascists- equally irredeemable ghouls ranging from Macron to Trudeau or Scholz, etc) march us all to armageddon (and compared to what else is on the table, that may be an optimistic outcome- a quick death). And as you said, the default position- even if it's not fascist, or even has some awareness and criticism of liberalism, is still just poisoned, biased, or will happily look the other way (for "peace," after all) as all of the above trample over any notion of basic human decency.