Went to a Cub game last night. I know, MLB, but it was a last minute opportunity to share a night with some of the very best people I know. And besides, I grew up going to Wrigley and am sick of them taking everything from me including my fond memories of childhood, most of which was a lie. I am rationalizing that I am taking all of my shit back. Infiltration.
Full capacity almost NO MASKS. People were having a blast. It was as if 25k people just learned they weren't terminal after all. ONE Jumbotron shot of some idiot who had masks on his kids and for a second the audience fell eerily quiet. Then back to normal people. It felt like a collective silent "Eww" hard to explain. Bonus was Cubs player #17 Kris Bryant was MVP (announced in the 4th inning?) There were 17 shirts everywhere, felt like Kismet.
This is very important to remember. Not everyone is part of the club and/or there are various degrees of membership (literally).
There will be some that are just as surprised as the rest of us. There will be some that thought they were just part of a cool secret gang, never knowing the evils deeper in. There will be some that became a part of it, even though they didn't want to, recognizing that "this is just the way the world is," but fought it in their own way at every step. There will be those in that category that later worked to break the system from the inside (DJT, JFK and many others are likely members of this group).
There is nothing black and white here. The real world is a very messy gray area of good v. evil, both between groups, between people, and inside each of us. When the truth comes out, hopefully we can keep our heads and mete out justice with a true understanding of the scope of the tools and evils used to coerce, and without hate or vengeance in our hearts.