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On the Glass of Apathy🪞

A Letter to My Fellow Americans ✨🇺🇸

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Aug 19, 2025
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Filed under: Cracks in the façade.

Smash the glass. Sound the alarm.🚨

America feels feverish.

Some will call it summer heat.

Some will call it politics, per usual; but you and I both know it’s the tremor before the pane shatters— that moment when the air tastes metallic, and the headlines are less about what’s happened and more about what we’re bracing for.

I don’t write this to comfort you.

I write this to remind you that comfort is not the goal.

The goal is to feel— so sharply, so undeniably— that the glass of apathy cannot survive the weight of our hands.


A Letter to My Fellow Americans:

On the Glass of Apathy

I write to you from the fracture—
that hairline crack between
what we were told we were
and what we have become.

Can you hear it?
The low hum beneath the 
floorboards—
not progress, not peace,
but the tightening wire of control.
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