I’m constantly astonished that billionaires would rather ignore the climate crisis and prepare to live in a bunker with dvds and baked beans than devote a modicum of their bottomless wealth to saving the planet where we have fresh fruit and soft grass and blue skies.
I am 52 years old. I have been working since I was 15 years old. I have no savings, no retirement, and will never own a home before I die.
And there is now a trillionaire.
No girl is born dreaming of motherhood. That idea is taught. From dolls to toy strollers, girls are conditioned early for caregiving and reproduction, while boys aren't. We're taught this is our purpose, yet the risks of pregnancy and childbirth, even death, are rarely acknowledged. This isn't instinct. It's social conditioning.
Listen to sex workers when they assure you that the men buying them are misogynists who treat them as an acceptable outlet for their violent, depraved fantasies.
My father was hospitalized when he fell down the stairs, got Covid in hospital, and his then-mild dementia accelerated with extreme rapidity, and he died within the year.
My story is not unique. How many millions of people is this happening to?
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” -Assata Shakur
If you aren’t protecting each other from Covid, you don’t have family, you don’t have friends and you don’t have a community. Those things don’t exist when you are actively harming each other. You are all just collectively playing at those things like kids play house.