Every time you catch yourself going, "Fuck, are humans just inherently evil and naturally inclined to selfishness and harm???" you HAVE to remember that that's literally a core ideal of Christianity.
So if it feels inescapable and like evidence of it is everywhere, whether at times or always, that might just because you're in a Western country where you're surrounded by Christians who believe that, fundamentally, in their worldview. And also they talk and make art about it all the time and run the vast majority of news outlets. And spent over a thousand years burning any art or texts that disagreed with them. Etc. etc.
If you're gonna come to as drastic and painful a conclusion as that, at least take the time first to make sure you're not working with biased evidence (surrounded by too many people and cultural products that believe original sin is real)
And if it turns out the feeling WAS partly the result of cultural Christianity, then hey, that's great news, because it means there's that much (and it really is SO MUCH) less evidence that humans inherently suck. Which is good, because we don't
I was recently reading Odyssey, and I noticed how important hospitality and charity was there... Except it was the same trick as Christianity - using gods to make it transactional.
Gods would pretend to be beggars and would punish mortals if they weren't generous to them or would mistreat them.
Personally, I'm pretty sure vast majority of people are evil and completely devoid of humanity. I'm disabled and not fit for work and only recently managed to get benefits after figuring out a hidden way to do it and getting a private diagnosis.
When things were bad, I was trying to find help but, in my communities, almost nobody would help and out of those who helped almost nobody would help more than once. It's really eye-opening when one is in need.
Also, my disability benefits are like 1/2 of minimum wage despite that I have to pay spend more for medicines, the voters in my country want disabled people to either die or rot in abject poverty. So, obviously, my country is filled with evil inhumans.
Christianity is just a trick to make evil people think that helping others is in their self-interest. "Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me." is just an updated version of gods pretending to be beggars trick.
People in reblogs invent dozens of copes, but let's be honest, most of them are probably a part of the problem. The fact that no fit for work disabled people get forced into abject poverty or left to die is an objective proof that vast majority of people are evil.
I'm also a disabled person who's physically unable to work right now. Incidentally.
Personally, the severity of my current medical situation is very likely temporary, for which I am very lucky. But I will never be able to work the vast majority of jobs without society-wide accessibility changes, and I will never again be able to work a 9-5 schedule in my life. My disability prevents it. For the past 5 years, I have been physically unable to work like 90+% of jobs. My life history is painfully full of medical neglect and abuse.
And I still disagree.
The fact that disabled people are treated like shit is for a lot of reasons, which imo does not include the idea that people are inherently evil, but DOES include that a fuck ton of the foundational medical, psychology, and disability researchers from the 1800s up to like the 1970s (generously) was literally done by eugenicists and literal Nazis
And the governments who got to pass laws were (and in painfuly many cases still are) (with varying degrees of secrecy) chock full of eugenicists and Nazis
Eugenicists and Nazis spent most of the past 200+ years telling literally everyone that disability is caused by disabled people's inherent "uncleanliness" and "moral deficiencies" and "their own fault" and "what they deserve" and "you can't hide an ugly soul on your face" and "a blight on humanity" and other horrific and violent lies, and then passed thousands and thousands of eugenics laws and policies that we have not yet entangled...
Is far, far more of the reason that disabled people are treated like shit than anything else, at least these days in Western culture, imho
And far more provable.
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent and exterminated
millions in the quest for a co-called "Master Race," and IBM aided
And I think it's premature to attribute the lack of support and care for disabled people to human nature instead of Big Pharma, drug companies, medical lobbyists, insurance companies, capitalism, billionaires, eugenics lobbyists, and unchecked corporate greed.
You don't have to agree with me. You probably won't; frankly, a lot of people have very real reason to think humans being evil is the case. That's not something I am in denial about. It's something I am trying to dedicate my life to help fix
(far, far easier said than done)
All of that is true - and also, personally, I would really like to at least try getting rid of billionaires, Nazis in government and medicine
More and some source links below the cut.
And regardless of the truth of human nature, I am so sorry for what you have been through and that people have treated you like that. None of I'm saying at all changes the fact that that was unfair, and I'm sure often cruel, and completely fucking sucks. I hate that for you and I'm so sorry
While, I'm at it, the US Supreme Court decisions (specifically Clarence Thomas's) are literally currently being funded by the massive personal fortune of a billionaire Nazi.
Look. I haven't lived your life, or anyone else's life.
But it has genuinely been my experience that the reason the vast majority of society treats disabled people like shit is all the lawmakers and doctors and police officers and billionaires who are (with varying degrees of secrecy or the total lack of thereof) eugenicists and/or Nazis
Ultimately, you are the only one who has lived your life. You are the only person who has seen and knows what you have seen and know. There are absolutely many painfully, painfully valid reasons to look at the world right now and come to that conclusion. Some people have had to live through a truly, unspeakably horrific amount of shit, and a great many of those people are disabled (many of them actually as a result of various horrific shit)
All of that is true.
And also:
At least for me, I would really like to least try banning billionaires and de-Nazi-fying our governments (esp but absolutely not limited to the US government), and ending for-profit health insurance, first. I think that would really genuinely change the world, and I'd like to see what kind of world we could build in the aftermath before deciding that humanity as a whole is evil
Maybe I'm wrong. I don't think it's particularly likely - I'm actually also a trained professional factchecker, in my offline life, so I did not come to my own beliefs on this quickly or easily or lightly
And still -
I'd like to keep trying to find out, first, before coming to such a brutal conclusion
(In order: Dimple hangin’ out on the spirits and such sign because I love spirits and such, my growing obsession with the interior of spirits and such via its plants, and spirit reigen concepts)
personally worm reigen is my favorite I wanna go for something abstract (this totally isn’t my way of saying spirit reigen ideas appreciated)
give me your favorite photo of ryland grace (ominous) and unpopular opinion. let tthe epoeple 👂 you
OKAY MY BELOVED
i cannot choose One image. it has to be this sequence where he violates MULTIPLE lab safety rules <3
favorite thing about them
Oh you know. His general failure aura. Also that he was a school teacher and acts dorky enough to qualify as a really good teacher i would have liked as a kid <3
least favorite thing about them
Book grace sometimes does NOT shut up about the calculations he's doing in his head and also this may just be a nitpick but i don't like how nebulous his field of research is in a way? He's a physics teacher but he was a molecular biologist but he works like a cellular biologist. idk
favorite line
Movie: "Why is there a scanning electron microscope. Why do I know what that is?!" (definitely misquoting)
Book: "So I'm a single man, in my 30's, living alone in an apartment. I don't have kids, but I like kids a lot, I don't like where this is going- I'M A TEACHER. Oh, thank god, I'm a teacher."
brOTP
Stratt and Grace before launch!!! I think they both had a lot of snark with each other but also opened up more to the other than they ever would with anyone else
OTP
usually i go for aroace grace but if i had to pick a favorite: astrophathers (carl x grace)
nOTP
don't really have one?
random headcanon
eridians use it/its for grace and he either has no idea or doesnt care. also he has a lazy eye
unpopular opinion
I think he cared about stratt and the fandom doesnt particularly show that side enough as compared to his conflict with her
potentially! but unfortunately not right now :( I’ve got a commission to finish and artfight on the horizon!!! If you’re doing artfight I do try to revenge, so there’s that! My profile is a super WIP though so my refs are CRAZY outdated </3 Just keep an eye out for when the start rolls around!