In her book Medicine Stories, Aurora Morales speaks of the impact our participatory existence in an unjust world has on us. We have to harden our hearts in ord

In her book Medicine Stories, Aurora Morales speaks of the impact our participatory existence in an unjust world has on us. We have to harden our hearts in order to walk by the unhoused, harden our hearts to buy stuff me know is produced by slavery, pretend we don’t see the extortionist, your-money-or-your-life nature of industrialized health services, harden our hearts to the slaughter of billions of animals for the meat industry, pretend we don’t witness the ongoing ecocide and destruction of our only biosphere. That’s before the daily servings of doom via our doom-monetizing, amygdala-destroying media outlets. Such levels of ongoing denial and desentization impact us to the point that we live in an increasingly unhealthy state of mass psychosis. We are all freaking out internally, pretending that all is OK externally.