Issue 94: Reading does not change the facts of life, but it does change the atmosphere

Scattered reading by a scattered brain for a scattered heart

My sister lives in Berlin and, in an attempt to make me feel better about the election results, said to me… Don’t let this get to you; you see it’s the same shitshow everywhere. She meant of course that Bulgaria, where we are from, has been politically fucked forever and the extreme right has been on the rise everywhere in Europe. But I caught myself FEELING something like… I don’t know… resistance? offense? indignation?!… I didn’t say anything to her but what I wanted to say was… Yeah, but America is different. We are not like that.