Ronke you articulate perfectly what most of us in the US feel. We are at a breaking point and I don't see this going well. Sadly, this is what we need to make them pay attention.
Thank you Alice. It makes me so sad to see how cruelly people are treated when they are at their most vulnerable. And for what? So that a few people can make buy more expensive shit. It's as if people's lives are considered invaluable. No wonder the situation is escalating.
A bright beautiful warrior striking at his suppressors. You could argue Luigi practiced “good trouble”. Resistance. Unfortunately, he didn’t read 1984. He thought he was smarter than surveillance experts. He fucked up. Human Warrior Luigi defiantly shouted his Truth while being lead into a courtroom today.
We understand Luigi completely. No one can touch our low back. It hurts to move. The more we move, the more disabling the pain and numbness and weakness become. We have Medicaid. No copay. Our injury occurred in 1993. Car accident. Our body is very flexible. Rheumatologist said the degenerative disc disease is narrowing the spinal cord opening. SARS2 has added its own disabilities. The MD diagnosed me with Fibromyalgia. Long Haul Covid. SARS2 positive. We know our future mobility will be limited. The MD said, “Keep moving. Don’t lay in bed all day.”
We replied, “We are the Caretaker to Animals in our home and rescue sanctuary. We move. We are wiped out every day.”
I just discovered you. This piece spoke to me like no other in the past couple of days. Thank you so much for helping me to sort out my own thoughts about this awful situation.
You echo my thoughts. While much of the comments & gripes are on the US healthcare system, the root cause is the neoliberal capitalist system, especially its greed & individualism features. The grievances against Boeing, meat packers, milk producers, etc. might not yet be as strong as US health insurers, but the corporate culture is similar & the victims of this culture are equally dead or in debt. Nearly every under-30 American have grown up in an era of school shootings & active shooter drills, mass killings are a near daily occurrence, & gun ownership is near universal. There is now greater social acceptance (or less government resistance) of using guns & murder to solve social disputes, instead of talking, negotiating & compromise.
We are now entering the post-neoliberal era. I’m just sad how many people will needlessly die in the violence that will ensue over the next few years as society tries to find a new/updated version of a social contract.
I've never experienced an uber rich person that I wanted to befriend or invite over to my house…never. And I've never felt less valuable than an uber rich individual or corporation, just abused... Workers need to wake up and stop accepting the reality that most need 2 or more incomes to barely survive and then can never ever retire. And what floors me is the acceptance of war where 1000’s if not millions die, but it is so shocking when heads of corporations, heads of states and government are attacked for murderous, callous behavior…. does not compute….
Thank you for this. I am in absolute agreement with you, speaking as one of way too many Poors who have been crushed on all sides. To me it’s a dark and thoughtless impulse so many of the rich have, to constantly flaunt their obscene wealth in our faces in any way possible, with no regard for us or what we experience. Wealth and inequality have become so extreme (again) in our lives, it’s become surreal.
If you aren’t rich, you’re incrementally or radically dehumanized, devalued, marginalized, denigrated, objectified, exploited, and lied to by the callous rich every day, in some way. If you try to stand up for yourself and other vulnerable people, however, you get lied to, ignored, denied, treated like you don’t deserve to complain, etc.
Notice that it didn’t take long after its introduction for AI to be deployed by the rich to victimize us. United Health insurance purposefully using a faulty AI system to maximize claim denials (& human suffering) is a horrifying example. They’re effectively handing off life or death decisions to an inherently inhumane thing, in an effort to avoid guilt and culpability while maximizing profits for themselves. Tech companies stealing copyrighted human artwork and using it to train Generative AI has been putting visual artists and creators of all kinds out of work in multiple industries. Our time of atomized culture, where getting art work seen is itself a full time job, and many are asked to work for free, is a historically hard time to work as an artist. But with the way most of our people have had our human dignity denied- it’s also a historically hard time to be anyone who isn’t rich.
PS. Respectfully and with no offense intended, take a moment to reconsider using AI images. Making/buying art isn’t required; royalty-free photos & images work just as well- better, in fact. Writing of your caliber is much better served and supported by genuine images. Many thanks for listening.
Ronke you articulate perfectly what most of us in the US feel. We are at a breaking point and I don't see this going well. Sadly, this is what we need to make them pay attention.
Thank you Alice. It makes me so sad to see how cruelly people are treated when they are at their most vulnerable. And for what? So that a few people can make buy more expensive shit. It's as if people's lives are considered invaluable. No wonder the situation is escalating.
A bright beautiful warrior striking at his suppressors. You could argue Luigi practiced “good trouble”. Resistance. Unfortunately, he didn’t read 1984. He thought he was smarter than surveillance experts. He fucked up. Human Warrior Luigi defiantly shouted his Truth while being lead into a courtroom today.
We hear you! We see you! We are you!
#WePersistToResist #OligarchySuppression #Warrior #SystemsOfControl #ChronicLumbarPain #Spondylolisthesis #ParsFracture
We understand Luigi completely. No one can touch our low back. It hurts to move. The more we move, the more disabling the pain and numbness and weakness become. We have Medicaid. No copay. Our injury occurred in 1993. Car accident. Our body is very flexible. Rheumatologist said the degenerative disc disease is narrowing the spinal cord opening. SARS2 has added its own disabilities. The MD diagnosed me with Fibromyalgia. Long Haul Covid. SARS2 positive. We know our future mobility will be limited. The MD said, “Keep moving. Don’t lay in bed all day.”
We replied, “We are the Caretaker to Animals in our home and rescue sanctuary. We move. We are wiped out every day.”
So, yea. We understand you, Luigi. 💜
I just discovered you. This piece spoke to me like no other in the past couple of days. Thank you so much for helping me to sort out my own thoughts about this awful situation.
Thank you Elaine, I really appreciate your support. We are living in interesting times. Glad my thinking out loud helped you to sort out your thoughts
Absolutely.
The answer is simple but in no way easy.
Get money out of politics. End corporate donations and SuperPacs. It will solve 90% of our problems.
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Very true 👏👏
You echo my thoughts. While much of the comments & gripes are on the US healthcare system, the root cause is the neoliberal capitalist system, especially its greed & individualism features. The grievances against Boeing, meat packers, milk producers, etc. might not yet be as strong as US health insurers, but the corporate culture is similar & the victims of this culture are equally dead or in debt. Nearly every under-30 American have grown up in an era of school shootings & active shooter drills, mass killings are a near daily occurrence, & gun ownership is near universal. There is now greater social acceptance (or less government resistance) of using guns & murder to solve social disputes, instead of talking, negotiating & compromise.
We are now entering the post-neoliberal era. I’m just sad how many people will needlessly die in the violence that will ensue over the next few years as society tries to find a new/updated version of a social contract.
I've never experienced an uber rich person that I wanted to befriend or invite over to my house…never. And I've never felt less valuable than an uber rich individual or corporation, just abused... Workers need to wake up and stop accepting the reality that most need 2 or more incomes to barely survive and then can never ever retire. And what floors me is the acceptance of war where 1000’s if not millions die, but it is so shocking when heads of corporations, heads of states and government are attacked for murderous, callous behavior…. does not compute….
Great piece.
Thank you 🙏
Thank you for this. I am in absolute agreement with you, speaking as one of way too many Poors who have been crushed on all sides. To me it’s a dark and thoughtless impulse so many of the rich have, to constantly flaunt their obscene wealth in our faces in any way possible, with no regard for us or what we experience. Wealth and inequality have become so extreme (again) in our lives, it’s become surreal.
If you aren’t rich, you’re incrementally or radically dehumanized, devalued, marginalized, denigrated, objectified, exploited, and lied to by the callous rich every day, in some way. If you try to stand up for yourself and other vulnerable people, however, you get lied to, ignored, denied, treated like you don’t deserve to complain, etc.
Notice that it didn’t take long after its introduction for AI to be deployed by the rich to victimize us. United Health insurance purposefully using a faulty AI system to maximize claim denials (& human suffering) is a horrifying example. They’re effectively handing off life or death decisions to an inherently inhumane thing, in an effort to avoid guilt and culpability while maximizing profits for themselves. Tech companies stealing copyrighted human artwork and using it to train Generative AI has been putting visual artists and creators of all kinds out of work in multiple industries. Our time of atomized culture, where getting art work seen is itself a full time job, and many are asked to work for free, is a historically hard time to work as an artist. But with the way most of our people have had our human dignity denied- it’s also a historically hard time to be anyone who isn’t rich.
PS. Respectfully and with no offense intended, take a moment to reconsider using AI images. Making/buying art isn’t required; royalty-free photos & images work just as well- better, in fact. Writing of your caliber is much better served and supported by genuine images. Many thanks for listening.
free the canaries!!! Was it a gold mine? or one whose rafters were going to fall and kill innocent people any second?