i'm rewatching Avatar: the Last Airbender, because i really need to spend some time thinking about fighting an impossibly powerful enemy, through community

(without losing self, joy, weirdness, whimsy, or honesty)

"The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death." - Hunter S. Thompson, 2003