Oh, it's a pole

mechanized responses and the impulse to react

(Full disclosure I write this after a week of pretty intense chronic illness flareups so if things don’t make total sense it’s me, not you.)

This week online has made abundantly clear, to me, that many people who apparently
care about things—i.e. post the right things at the right times, like heroes—have succumbed to reactiveness as a resting state. I t…