Happy Father’s Day
Lessons from Fathers
Coil remains in a distant swamp celebrating an ancestral birthday, so all you’ve got this Father’s Day is Augur.
Baroness and Murderpaws are in a similar situation, and want everyone to know that they’ve literally never been fed and could starve at any moment!
It’s a strange time to be thinking about my father.
He has an unflinching optimism about humanity, and that feels alien in a historical moment so threatened by war, tyranny, and institutional cruelty.
But he always taught me that it’s in moments of crisis and despair that you most need to believe in human decency.
Obviously, there are bad people, and there are good people who do bad things. Systems fail, and there is awfulness in the world.
But when your hope teeters on the edge, when you start thinking it might be better to push someone else off the boat to save your own skin, that’s when you need to believe in people the most.
It’s much harder to stand up for what we know is right if we believe we’re alone.
That’s why the most effective lie monsters tell is that everyone is a monster.
But it’s a lie. We’re not alone.
People are compassionate. People loathe bullies. People believe in justice, in freedom, and in love.
I worry things are going to get worse before they get better, but I’m going to try to make my dad proud. I don’t believe for a second that I’m the only one.
He also recommends hugging animals whenever they’ll let you.
Happy Father’s Day to all.
