We're repeating history with present-day technology, live-streaming every horrific detail. A new yet familiar era has begun, and we don't have the vocabulary to describe it. I struggle to explain my emotions because I've never felt or experienced anything like this.

The inhumanity breaks me, yet the solidarity marches keep me somewhat together. I feel every emotion simultaneously but don't have the words to express my mental state.

We're witnessing an empire collapse, and the descent is fast yet slow. I want to turn off the internet and my mind, but the destruction is everywhere. Families living out of their cars and miles-long homeless camps cover the sidewalks, yet our government proudly boasts about the billions it spends on wars.

Our government's moral compass is in the dumpster, and humanity is waking up an immoral world.