The Barrow

I recently attended a fencing tournament and just being around people with whom I share this interest was enough to make me feel far better about the state of the world. Despite lots of absolutely ridiculous opinions I'm sure were there, the shared love of fencing was the only thing I really noticed being expressed outwardly. If I didn't make any assumptions about people's attitudes or politics, I wouldn't have ever guessed. Also, there have always been garbage opinions in any group of people.

I also had some friends over this weekend for Halloween and many of the opinions I heard expressed even among these progressive friends echoed many of my “anti-woke left” opinions from circa 2021. Maybe I'm just always 4-5 years ahead of the curve. Anecdotally, this tracks, as I was also 4-5 years ahead of the woke trend, embracing opinions and a worldview easily described as “woke” as early as 2012.

Maybe things are going to rebalance and I just need to be patient.