"between beauty and blind rage"

Writing at Welcome to Hell World, Christopher Harris hits on something that I’ve been thinking about a lot recently: how to reconcile my desire to seek comfort and joy in distractions with the feeling that the current moment demands I stay constantly alert and outraged lest I fail to properly pay sufficient attention to what exactly is going on here.

The goal of fascism is to squeeze away joy and I guess the best revenge is striking some theoretical balance between beauty and blind rage and so we need all the music and TV shows and movies we can get, and they obviously don’t all have to take direct aim at the maniacs.