Remember like six months ago when millions of documents were released that detail how our government is full of sadistic pedophiles and then nothing happened? Like literally nothing at all?
One reason 9/11 looms so large for millennials is that in retrospect it heralded the collapse of so much else: the economy, the environment, literacy, culture. Those falling towers are a perfect visual image of the past 25 years. We’ve been watching towers fall every day since.
GENUINELY, i think that if we adopted a 4-day, 32-hour workweek with livable wages, people would be happier, healthier, and more present. There’s no reason we need to work this much. People need time to rest, enjoy their lives, and spend time with family and friends.
What a privilege it is to be able to run, afford a gym, buy healthy food, pay bills, have legs that walk, eyes that see, a brain that functions, work every day, and take our bodies to their fullest potentials.