Lighting a Fire
Reflections for the Darkest Day of the Year
The last two weeks on Substack were tiring, exhausting even, as days went by and founders remained radio silent on the whole 'Nazis in Substack' issue. I am sick of Substack's devil-may-care attitude and the build-up they allowed for two weeks before addressing this issue. I am sick of people justifying fascists and condoning colonialism. I am so sick of it. It irks me to see sensible people act unreasonably. That’s just not good sense.
I love the community here, and since the turn of the decade, I have, for the first time, found a home and belonging here on Substack. The internet was an intellectual desert, in the midst of which the Substack community felt like an oasis of hope. This world is already too torn by hate, war, stark indifferences, and sectarian ideologies that humans adopt to appear contrarian. I am here to reduce polarization, to enable healthy debate, to welcome conflict as a tool for transformation. I am here for it all. But I am not here to debate hate and condone ha…