Over and over I am seeing the righteous around me being persecuted for refusing to go along with lies and liars. Lost career, kids being stolen off them, canceled friendships, slandered, agreements broken, deplatformed online, denied proper healthcare, and on and on.

To my mind there is a paradoxical power in "describing and defining the shit we stand in". It's not to want to wallow in shit, or to seek to demoralise ourselves by the unpleasantness. Rather, it is to fully identify with the reality of the "social sewage" so that we may press on and get out of the sewer.