As a kid, I found it kind of disturbing that in order to live, things had to eat living things. That cute lion cubs would tear into cute little deer. I found it disturbing that we had to destroy forests with animals in them to make books, which are so lovely to hold.
I’m disturbed by the fact that a small group of people control everything. I’m disturbed that there are rich people with starving employees. That the foster care system often sucks. That kids are treated so poorly that DID exists (Note: people with DID are wonderful and deserve all the best, I’m saying that what they had to go through for this disorder to even exist is horrible.) That our wars are fought for oil, people DYING for the profit of billionaires.
That we have all the tech to be green and are not. How freaking terrible our prison system is. How unhelpful and unfair our school systems are. That we constantly have to choose between evils. That consumers are blamed for throwing out plastic straws by corporations that are destroying the planet far more than us regular people. How monopolies are appearing all over the freaking place. How so many of us are so freaking sad. How the system is set up so that poor people stay poor. How many people go missing. How we let North Korea just get away with how it treats its people. How many shootings have happened. How Australia caught fire. How that one guy figured out that in poorer areas the lights with cameras are rigged to stop sooner for profit, KILLING PEOPLE, and now he’s had attempts on his LIFE. The Panama papers. A virus is spreading and people are just out without masks to make a point and get more people hurt. How essential workers have no choice and are being offered up as sacrifices for the economy. How expensive things like insulin are. How little privacy we have. How expensive eating healthy is.
I’m disturbed by the videos I’ve seen of police brutality. I’m disturbed that I didn’t see just how serious, how dire things are for people that aren’t me. I’m disturbed that tv is making this about looting an autozone. People are dying, losing eyes, FIGHTING for their RIGHT TO LIVE, and you’re concerned about Target? Of COURSE you are, because it very, very slightly affects the people at the very top, and they make the media what they want it to be.
I want to take this planet over for a couple years. I want to rip apart all the power plants and set up wind farms, solar panels, water wheels. I want to get rid of gas cars. I want electricity to be a right, or at least incredibly cheap. I want to take money from the billionaires and give it to the poor. I want to make prisons look like small apartments, where they can learn to cook or do some reading, a place to get on your feet, so people who get out don’t come back. If they are GENUINELY too dangerous and need to be kept away from the public for their safety, aka those who delight in bloodshed and are not sorry, or keep coming in for serious crimes, keep them in a more secure place. Not all prisoners need to be treated like serial killers!! I want to tear down the mega corporations and let small businesses flourish. I don’t want to see more than 10 of the same store in the country. I want the top 500 richest people in America to pay tax. I want tax to be a sign of status, and I want them to compete to do the most public good, like they used to in Athens. Nobody else needs to pay tax, at all. I want everybody to have living wage, water, a roof over their heads, space to themselves if they want it. I want roads made of recycled plastic, which have been proven to be a far better option. I want to completely ban plastic wherever possible, and make paper cups, wooden remotes, paper grocery bags. I want to get rid of the farms where animals are treated so poorly and give them to small farmers. I want farmers markets EVERYWHERE. I want to not just crack down on who gets guns, but also who gets to be a cop, a boss, or a leader of any kind. I want to make poor neighborhoods have top schooling, beautiful streets, and jobs that pay well. I want to stop decreasing the middle class, but instead make the lower class disappear by giving them ways to live, to get help, to be treated like a PERSON. And decrease the upper class of the corrupt and the vile. I want to make the education system encourage creativity, make people ENJOY learning, and teach things that MATTER. Teach about basic math, history, science, sure, but let kids decide what they are interested in and take more classes about those things. Require classes that teach about safety, about safe sex and CPR. Teach them their rights, teach girls it’s wonderful for them to stand up for themselves, and it’s wonderful for boys to feel, and that we should all stand up for each other. Teach them about various cultures and lifestyles and people with respect. Stop making other people “other”. Teach them how to build a resume, how to handle money, how to calm situations. Also, bring sexualizing children to a complete halt.
More vacation days for the whole world, make travel easy but keep a cap on it so we don’t keep ruining the lives of locals. Respect the sacred places of other cultures, rebuilding the coral reefs, more effective CPS.
The world we live in breaks my heart and makes me feel so hopeless. There is so much wrong, so many people hurt or ignorant or manipulated. It feels like nothing will ever be fixed and this is the way it is.
BLM, thank you for standing up. I don’t quite know what I can do to help when I have no funds but know that you are so powerful. People who band together are the only hope this world has left.
