Dispatches from the Abyss 01/17/26

Radical acceptance is a wild concept like how do I accept the state of the world? 'Things fall apart, the center cannot hold' echoes in my brain. I am of Ukrainian descent so I follow a lot of Ukrainian news sources and creators so I can stay informed about the war. I remember seeing a saying - if there are no bombs, we work, if there are bombs, we don't. That's life in contemporary war times. Life goes on when it does and when it needs to stop, it stops. That is radical acceptance. It is what it is. You do what you can and survive another day. 

It's about adapting and pivoting. I have been doing this since the election results in 2024 -- adapting and pivoting to change - tariffs, inconsistent international shipping, supply chain issues, my own personal issues stemming from chronic pain and illnesses, but still I persist.

I'm laughing to myself why the heck did I start a business in the pandemic era that slid straight forward into the fascist regime and economic collapse in America??? 

Radical acceptance tells me to keep on keeping one, but I still think its weird as the world is falling apart at break neck pace. Buy my crap seems hollow when ICE is waging war on Minnesota, whilst the war and genocide persists in Ukraine, while the Epstein files still haven't been fully released, while Iran is in a state of revolution, and a thousand other things. I want to list them all, but hold space for them in my heart and mind. I want peace for people - all people in all places. 

It's all falling apart so fast, but really this has all been the under current going back to the culture wars and Satanic Panic of the 1980s and 1990s. I can't say I didn't see all this coming, but I did, I always hoped I was wrong - that's the thing with prophecy most people don't understand - why would I want to be right about any of this?, but here we are. I wrote about the time period from 2013-2033 back in 1999 when I was in my early 20s.