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we're not kids anymore.
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[picture of french people installing a guillotine near the Louvre in Paris for Wokers' Day 2020]
All parents tbh
This one got me tbh
“Get a rat and put it in a cage and give it two water bottles. One is just water, and one is water laced with either heroin or cocaine. If you do that, the rat will almost always prefer the drugged water and almost always kill itself very quickly, right, within a couple of weeks. So there you go. It’s our theory of addiction. Bruce comes along in the ‘70s and said, “Well, hang on a minute. We’re putting the rat in an empty cage. It’s got nothing to do. Let’s try this a little bit differently.” So Bruce built Rat Park, and Rat Park is like heaven for rats. Everything your rat about town could want, it’s got in Rat Park. It’s got lovely food. It’s got sex. It’s got loads of other rats to be friends with. It’s got loads of colored balls. Everything your rat could want. And they’ve got both the water bottles. They’ve got the drugged water and the normal water. But here’s the fascinating thing. In Rat Park, they don’t like the drugged water. They hardly use any of it. None of them ever overdose. None of them ever use in a way that looks like compulsion or addiction. There’s a really interesting human example I’ll tell you about in a minute, but what Bruce says is that shows that both the right-wing and left-wing theories of addiction are wrong. So the right-wing theory is it’s a moral failing, you’re a hedonist, you party too hard. The left-wing theory is it takes you over, your brain is hijacked. Bruce says it’s not your morality, it’s not your brain; it’s your cage. Addiction is largely an adaptation to your environment. […] We’ve created a society where significant numbers of our fellow citizens cannot bear to be present in their lives without being drugged, right? We’ve created a hyperconsumerist, hyperindividualist, isolated world that is, for a lot of people, much more like that first cage than it is like the bonded, connected cages that we need. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection. And our whole society, the engine of our society, is geared towards making us connect with things. If you are not a good consumer capitalist citizen, if you’re spending your time bonding with the people around you and not buying stuff—in fact, we are trained from a very young age to focus our hopes and our dreams and our ambitions on things we can buy and consume. And drug addiction is really a subset of that.”
— Johann Hari, Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?
this was a great read. “Laziness Does Not Exist” by Devon Price
A walk in the vale
Y'all: *has a literal database of every kind of car make and model that fits into their pocket*
Also y'all: *absolutely refuses to use it to their advantage in any way and instead posts memes about not knowing what certain cars look like*
Exactly. I’m here to be pretty not learn about stupid shit.
with both covid-19 + the primaries going on I’ve heard ppl say some truly awful stuff about “boomers” as if all old people are rich conservative white men who deserve to be wiped out, so I drew up this graphic feat. stories of some of the elders I’ve met through work and activism.
“boomer” is not a coherent class. now more than ever it is imperative that the working class stands together, while celebrities sing silly songs in their mansions we must organize to meet community needs, regardless of age we are all comrades in the same fight!
The flip side of this is the spring break give no shit young people are also not representative of their entire generation. You know what they are? Rich.
image description: two graphics with red and yellow background and text color schemes, and full color illustrations. the first is titled “Elders are not our enemy: Working class solidarity with all generations!” and has illustrations of 3 elders:
1. a Black woman with gray streaks in her hair, glasses, and a green cardigan, looking down with a tired expression. beside her, a text box reads:
- has worked at the same store for decades and never been promoted
- knows more than the boss but will never be paid what her labor is worth
- works multiple low-wage jobs to support children and grandchildren
2. a partially bald Asian man in a light blue shirt and tan jacket, raising a wooden cane with an angry/frustrated expression. beside him, a text box reads:
- has been protesting since the Vietnam War
- goes to city meetings to advocate against fascist local policy
- cannot believe we’re still dealing with this shit
3. a woman with short, curly black hair and brown skin, wearing a maroon shirt. her expression is concerned. beside her, a text box reads:
- lives on a fixed income
- new company bought her retirement community and wants to raise rent
- afraid she will end up homeless or have her heat shut off and die
the second graphic has faces of people of various ages, genders, and races with the text “Generational politics can not replace class analysis: We are stronger together! No war but class war!” end image description.
thank you so much for doing an image description! going to make a note for myself so i remember to do this for any future posts bc i need to do better on this front.
I understand this is a lot of words to read for some of y’all, but the lack of outrage and anger I’m seeing these days breaks my heart. We need to stand up and bring attention to this.