{"id":26373,"date":"2022-12-22T21:32:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T05:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=26373"},"modified":"2022-12-22T21:32:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T05:32:02","slug":"dont-ever-stop-talking-to-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2022\/12\/22\/dont-ever-stop-talking-to-each-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t ever stop talking to each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1383,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/catvalente.substack.com\\\/p\\\/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260224120315\\\/https:\\\/\\\/catvalente.substack.com\\\/p\\\/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-02 12:58:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 05:33:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 15:00:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 15:00:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/catvalente.substack.com\/p\/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start\">a long rant by Cat Valente<\/a> &#8211; and it\u2019s really, really good. Though I\u2019m quoting a particularly good bit from the end, it\u2019s worth reading the whole thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Don\u2019t ever stop talking to each other. It\u2019s what the internet is really and truly for. Talk to each other and listen to each other. But don\u2019t ever stop connecting. Be a prodigy of the new world. Stand up for the truth no matter how often they take our voices away and try to replace the idea of reality with fucking insane Lovecraftian shit. Don\u2019t give up, don\u2019t let them have this world. Love things. Love people. Love the small and the weird and the new.<\/p>\n<p>  Because that\u2019s what fascists can\u2019t do. They don\u2019t love white people or straight people or silent women or binary enforced gender or forced birth or even really money. They want those things to be the only acceptable or even visible choices, but they don\u2019t love them. They don\u2019t even want to think about them. They want them to be automatically considered superior and universally mandated so they don\u2019t have to think about them\u2014or else what do you think the fury over other people wearing masks was ever about? The need to be right without thinking about it, and never have to see anything that wakens a spark of doubt in their own choices.<\/p>\n<p>  Obey, do not imagine, do not differ.<\/p>\n<p>  That\u2019s nothing to do with love. Love is gentle, love is kind, remember? They need the attention being terrible brings them, but they don\u2019t love it any more than a car loves gas. Sometimes I don\u2019t even think they love themselves. Sometimes I\u2019m pretty sure of it. They certainly never seem happy, even when they win. Musk doesn\u2019t seem happy at all.<\/p>\n<p>  Geeks, though. Us weird geeks making communities in the ether? We love. We love so stupidly hard. We try to be happy. We get enthusiastic and devote ourselves to saving whales and trees and cancelled science fiction shows and each other. The energy we make in these spaces, the energy we make when we support and uplift and encourage and excite each other is something people like Musk can never understand or experience, which is why they keep smashing the windows in to try and get it, only to find the light they hungered for is already gone. Moved on, always a little beyond their reach.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a long rant by Cat Valente- and it\u2019s really, really good. Though I\u2019m quoting a particularly good bit from the end, it\u2019s worth reading the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[4228,241,599],"class_list":["post-26373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-livejournal","tag-twitter","tag-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}