"that is always the prelude to fascism... well if it's that easy, and if it's that unimportant, why the fuck do they want it so bad? and the answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human."
Not only did we never achieve herd immunity for COVID we're now losing herd immunity for other viruses. That means even vaccinated people won't be safe.
The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save—the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour—your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.
I'm glad people are getting support in the moment, but seeing AirBnb, GoFundMe, and Planet Fitness step up where the state has failed us, in these moments where that failure becomes so clear, is an indictment of this whole neoliberal nightmare.
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Reading is not a privilege. Literacy is as important as food and water. Even countries who have been scorned as supposed “third world” have exceptionally high literacy rates because they know that no matter how poor a person is, you have a right to be educated.