KerryD
kerryunr.bsky.social
KerryD
@kerryunr.bsky.social
Too many roles. Too much to say. Advocating and loving my fam. Seeing the world with hopeful and satirical artist eyes.
11- De-programming is awfully hard.
But the de-frag has to happen with this awful virus of hate and vitriol. It’s taking down the entire network.
February 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
10- I want to scream to the abyss. I know their hearts and good, they just need to be brave for the right side of history. But again. It’s hard to grow. It’s hard to be different. And it’s hard to lose community. BUT it’s healthier than losing their morality.
February 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
9- People that are educated but have this programming, won’t risk their support systems. And they won’t risk being brave - and when they do, there is much grief to mourning what they have lost. Which is identity in relation to others.
February 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
8- People that have NEVER had to grow (which comes from being uncomfortable), will not stray out of their safe bubble, even when what they believe is in complete opposite of what is happening
February 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
7- If the programming of your support system is: your family, your neighbors, your community, and your church… (and they have never left to live outside this red state, have never been forced to make new friends, rebuild their identity, reexamine their life without the programming)… then it is scary
February 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
6- Back to the why:
It is scary for anyone to
-be different, because it puts them in the spotlight and that is uncomfortable
-speak up against the norm, because that can exclude the only people they know as their community, as their family, and their church, as their neighbors
-and it’s BRAVE, sooo
February 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
5- oh, and I forgot that mega churches in the community. Everyone attends one of the many mega Christian churches. Because the amount of Muslims, Jewish, Buddhist, and others aren’t prominent in said suburbia. Nor is there much prominent diversity.
February 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
4- so it’s unspoken spoken that everyone wants to blend in, fit in, be invited to the things (there are so many things), and LOOK the same
February 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
3- and that used to be quaint for raising kids in a weirdly Wisteria Lane kind of bubble… houses are all the same color, everyone goes to a med spa for touchups, no one speaks up if something is truly a problem because someone is beloved (but is a child predator), god forbid your kid isn’t sporty
February 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
2- But suburbia has small town feels still- definitely everyone knows everyone by 2-3 degrees
February 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM