Telling the Truth is a Radical Act

Heidi S.
7 min readSep 29, 2021
Photo by Claudio Schwarz on Unsplash

“I will die of suppressed rage at the folly of my fellow men.” — Gustave Flaubert

Living through a global pandemic has had an unexpected effect of making me even more misanthropic than I was before. It’s not a remarkable insight that we have to live in a world with people who are callous and wrong, but the pandemic has made the state of humanity (particularly in the US) seem extra bleak.

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Heidi S.

PhD in philosophy | Feminist | Anarchist | Pop culture junkie | Kpop listener | Actually Autistic