Kuebiko is both a Japanese Deity and a description of a state of being that I think half the world can agree they understand.
As a Deity, Kuebiko is a god of agriculture and wisdom. He's a scarecrow, who can't move but has a lot of knowledge about how the world around him goes. His name means 'crumbling prince' or something similar. A man falling apart.
As a feeling, Kuebiko is meant to refer to a state of exhaustion caused by the senseless violence of the world. One of the more poetic descriptions of it, from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, link below:
n. a state of exhaustion inspired by senseless tragedies and acts of violence, which force you to abruptly revise your expectations of what can happen in this world, trying to prop yourself up like an old scarecrow, who’s bursting at the seams yet powerless to do anything but stand there and watch.
It makes sense that this word was reimagined by an author from the Japanese God into this feeling.
After Pride Month and the...issues...that have been caused by bigots, and after the issues politics keeps causing by demonizing a minority to give us all someone to blame, and after the number of times that we've all been so sure we were going to end up in a war...
I can understand this feeling. I'm not sure if it's better or worse that there is a word for it, but there is.
Please, take a moment to think about this for you, and if there is anything you can do to try to stop the feeling of powerlessness at least. I know no one can stop it all, but if you can stop a single act, it may be worth it.
Either way, I'll see you again soon.
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