This is a simplistic take, but I'll throw it out there: Most of the human species does not deserve to live on this planet, much less pretend to be its stewards, and our grand experiment (I don't mean "democracy") will fail in time. This country in particular is overflowing with dangerous, stupid, clueless, selfish idiots. My role? With the time I have left, I invoke Holden Caulfield, just trying to keep as many of us as possible from falling off the cliff. (Some of them even deserve to be saved!) And when I can, I'll run, throw shit, look at fire and gain strength from all of it. Keep fighting, Chuck. Sigue luchando contra viento y marea.
I appreciate your criticisms of neoliberalism and the lack of free spaces/activities that we have. That is something I have personally been trying to focus on myself is, like you, enjoying simple pleasures...not just buying things and going places to spend money and fit in.
Sometime in the last year I read a linked article (it may have been here) about how we work to buy more stuff which makes us have no choice but to go to work each day instead of doing more of what we want to do. That really stuck with me.
This is a simplistic take, but I'll throw it out there: Most of the human species does not deserve to live on this planet, much less pretend to be its stewards, and our grand experiment (I don't mean "democracy") will fail in time. This country in particular is overflowing with dangerous, stupid, clueless, selfish idiots. My role? With the time I have left, I invoke Holden Caulfield, just trying to keep as many of us as possible from falling off the cliff. (Some of them even deserve to be saved!) And when I can, I'll run, throw shit, look at fire and gain strength from all of it. Keep fighting, Chuck. Sigue luchando contra viento y marea.
I appreciate your criticisms of neoliberalism and the lack of free spaces/activities that we have. That is something I have personally been trying to focus on myself is, like you, enjoying simple pleasures...not just buying things and going places to spend money and fit in.
Sometime in the last year I read a linked article (it may have been here) about how we work to buy more stuff which makes us have no choice but to go to work each day instead of doing more of what we want to do. That really stuck with me.
Thanks as always for writing.