Burned-out & beat-down, but not dead yet.
10 ways to look at your continuing & magically fierce survival
The survivorship bias plane is such a great image.
It shows that the fragile places are the only ones that matter. It shows that being safe is a function of protecting what keeps you flying. The red dots are non-deadly hits. The green areas are the places that if hit, end the mission.
And lately, with so much petty, dumb-ass violence and predatory mega-filth warping history all over the place, that little plane diagram that could felt like the right icon to investigate this week.
So if you are getting burned out, being taken advantage of, being harmed and hunted for sport, or just feeling fed-up yet still belligerently hopeful in spite of absolutely everything, here are some survivorship-memes for you.
1: Survivors deserve better:
2: Survivors deserve support:
3: Survivors deserve to be pissed off in public:
4: Survivors deserve better going forward:
5: Survivors deserve to move on:
6: Survivors deserve justice:
7: Survivors deserve to destroy what has failed them:
8: Survivors deserve to name and shame:
9: Survivors deserve to be as honest as they want to be:
10: Survivors deserve to heal:
I hadn't thought about that story (the plane, and survivorship-bias) in a while.
Yeah, that pretty much hits the nail on the head. What a F week.
But, in that context, I suppose the most important thing to say to people is: You're not alone in feeling this way.
The survivorship bias metaphor really hits diferent when you think about how much effort goes into protecting the wrong things. We spend so much energy reinforcing what survived by luck rather than what acually needs strengthening. This framing of what survivors deserve feels overdu, especially the parts about being pissed off in public and destroying what failed them.