I don't mansplain, but here's some advice.

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3. I sent this out to Folks that might care

https://mailchi.mp/markmorford/buy-a-gun?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0asDlB7PnPPH2jh3I3KEX6TJkk8Elidy1lrLwFqeeH9m29uriszv6E-iQ_aem__2qJl9V26508jusvD-LE5A

Buy a gun.

AKA 27 things I’ve learned from social media in 72 hours

This is not my normal content. Actually, it sort of is, as what you're about to read is more or less exactly the kind of material I used to write about every week, for close to 20 years for the SF Chronicle, in my once semi-famous opinion column, which ran from the depths of 1998 through the latter half of 2017.

But I also discovered a terrible truth during my otherwise thrilling columnist run: turns out writing nearly every day about horrible people doing horrible things for horrible reasons, that can take a toll. Who knew?

Nevertheless, here I am. While the following is the sort of material I used to cover all the time, I’m doing so now with a new, social media-saturated, increasingly terrified tone. I’m not planning to make this a regular thing, but who knows. I don’t really have a readership anymore, or an established media outlet. And Substack is so very 2015. Also: Who reads? But we shall see.

Perhaps another time I can delve into the various spiritual/yogic practices and perspectives I’ve gleaned over my 25 years of teaching that can help us manage the moment, the brutal time to come. But this is not that. This is far uglier, more deliberately headlong, with absolutely zero fucks to give – AKA, meeting the moment as it is right now arriving.

It continues...