Laurie Stone
Laurie Stone is author of six books, most recently "Streaming Now, Postcards from the Thing that is Happening," longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. She writes the Substack "Everything is Personal.”
This regime wants to destabilize you financially so you will sacrifice all the pleasure and beauty that makes existence for you and others worth living. The marches yesterday were joy ascendant. The reason regimes of terror and domination regulate sex is that it's free. Suffering and sacrifice are not virtues. They are forms of social control. Happiness is resistance, and resistance makes happiness.
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THE GREAT THING ABOUT TODAY.
You are not alone. You are not alone with your sense of this is beyond me, this is past any imaginable bad crazy. You are not alone. We smiled. We saw each other. It was a giant global Beckett play, where we said to each other, "I see you. I know you. You have been seen." There's a different music in the air I…
