Founder Letter: Being a Practical Stand for Peace, Love, Truth and Beauty in the Time of the Black Pill
In a world where cynicism can feel louder than hope, what practices help you stay rooted in peace, love, and beauty each day?
Dear Rosies,
Recently I heard the term “the black pill” for the first time. It’s shorthand for a worldview of radical pessimism, where cynicism and despair rule the day. It took root in the underbelly of the internet, where the constant barrage of hatred makes hope seem naive and peace feel impossible. We may even know light forms of the symptoms ourselves: a sense that everything is broken and cannot be fixed, or the paralysis that comes from witnessing too much violence, too much suffering. The black pill whispers: Nothing matters. Love is weakness. Truth is dead. Beauty is irrelevant. Peace is impossible. There is temptation to either become numb or become a fighter ourselves.
But here we are anyway, you and me and a host of others, on International Day of Peace, daring to believe that another way is possible. And not just on this day, but everyday.
Peace is a series of daily choices in the face of ugliness. The commitment to act from love, to create and celebrate beauty, and to conform yourself to kindness… our regulated presence and humor: these are contagious. Without saying a word, we offer proof that another way of being is possible. Love in this context is a fierce commitment to the wellbeing of all life, to staying soft toward the person while being firm about their behavior.
This is why we plug into each other. The frequency of the reality of the hearts that can.
Hold your frequency steady and the room rises to meet you, vacillate and you are pulled by the dominant energies of a space. To the peace and awe and wonder beyond all understanding.
I’ve written more about it here.
Join us this Sunday for a Communal Conversation on Being Peace. Register for free here.
Love, Christine
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