SPIRITUAL SOAP: Die a Little Death or Live Forever Sick
A humble suggestion
Before we were The Black Sheep, we were a newsletter named Spiritual Soap. Please enjoy this article from our history!
There’s an illness in our culture with only a single symptom: a lost voice.
Knowing that your every word will be scrutinized by people whose purpose depends on finding (or inventing) your flaws will make your voice crack–and that’s the point. The threat of backlash adds a little armor to your every word. Tension leeches into your everyday existence, like the kind you feel before the eye doctor does that annoying air puff in your eye—you know it’s coming, you know you’ll survive it, and yet you can’t help but feel apprehension.
I’m concocting a very FDA-unapproved home remedy for avoiding this sickness that leaves you silent. Too weak a defense eventually fails, but push too hard and you end up a puppet that moves in reverse to what you oppose.