Please Stop Weaponizing Heroic Tales To Shame Others

I’ll admit that I’m way more sensitive now than ever before. My raw nerves keep gnawing at anything that could serve as triggers during a time when just two minutes of a CNN segment can require an immediate spiritual cleanse.

2020 barely completed a month before the stunning loss of a sports icon and his beloved 13-year-old daughter in a ghastly helicopter crash set the tone of what would turn out to be the most historically catastrophic year in recent memory.

The horrific arrival of Covid-19 and the disastrous response by Trump and his cabinet of fools have escalated an already dense climate of hostility, and acute fear. Couple that with the graphicness of police brutality raging across the country with the scorn of how systemic injustice won’t be defeated, without the dismantling of institutions that swear allegiance to white supremacy.

It’s a whole lot going on at once.

And when we add the personal struggles of navigating a distorted landscape of chaos and confusion to the task of trying to survive this season of societal upheaval, that flares up mental instability, it’s not difficult to conceive of why any little thing seems like a monstrous attack.

This is probably why staying engaged on platforms that were designed to drive us up the wall is a…