Or so she thought, it was a confusion. My confusion.
She slapped me like how she wanted to slap the unnatural out of me, to push away the shame, pull apart the unjust.
She slapped me like how she wanted to absolve her responsibility of my upbringing. The tainted girl, straight as an arrow, neither here and not there, right in the middle, i with the b, bI
Like my duality was a moral misconduct.
Like dualism was an error code for my upbringing, a judgement on her, a testament to my morality, a statement on her parenting.
Like acceptance was a moral misgiving
Oh how strange the circles always come full.
A guy, then a girl. A whirlwind romance of abuse, accused, untruths and broken pained and anguished
Pillage through the open forest knowing the right tree but still choosing,
“wouldn’t you rather earn something than have it just handed to you?”
Yeah when it comes to actual awards and fancy goods, but when it comes to basic needs, basic human decency, and accomodations, those things should always be handed to people. No one should have to “earn” those things.Value people as people, not base it on how much they produce.
Actually studies show that people who live in places with universal income (who are given money with no strings attached just for being citizens) do far better work than those who don’t and are more enthusiastic to do work.
This is because they still want nice things and will work for those but the part of their energy that was devoted to worrying about if they have enough money to pay the rent and bills this month is now freed up to do other things.
Some people will always be lazy and take advantage of the system, but they are always a tiny percentage and it seems ridiculous to me to punish the majority and severly hamstring their abilities just because a handful of people will simply live of basic income rather than work.
It’s been tested a couple times. In Canada, in some European countries, and the results are always the same.
There are two groups of people who show a statistically significant (Greater than one half of one percent, or 1 in 200) increase in Not Working and living off the guaranteed income. Parents of Children under school age, and full time students.
Among ALL other groups, employment actually INCREASED. Why? Because guaranteed minimum income means that homeless people can get at least a basic low end apartment. It’s hard if not impossible to get an above board job without a permanent fixed address. Also more people were able to have and maintain a BANK ACCOUNT. It is often hard to get a decent job without an account that can accept Direct Deposit for paychecks.
Also, lost work time due to illness and injury decreased across the board. It turns out if people are getting a decent amount of money each month they can A> afford to eat better, and B> obtain decent medical attention both preventative and emergency. Crazy right?
So why hasn’t it caught on?
Because it doesn’t directly benefit the people in power, and it increases THEIR PERSONAL taxes, their CORPORATE TAXES, and thus decreases their PERSONAL INCOME.
So, because Jeff Bezos and Alan Greenspan might fall from making 100 billion dollars a year to making 99.8 billion dollars a year, it’s a hard NO and we can all fucking die..
The End.
Capitalist bootlickers are always like “that might create a slippery slope of dependency where people could be exploited, so we should stay on our slippery slope of starvation and homelessness where people definitely are being exploited.”
Stumbled on this today. One of the most beautiful pieces I’ve read in awhile❤️
— BY MARI ANDREW 1. I am washing my face before bed while a country is on fire. It feels dumb to was my face, and dumb not to. It has n
NOTES FROM THE FIRST FEW DAYS OF 2020
— BY MARI ANDREW
1. I am washing my face before bed while a country is on fire. It feels dumb to was my face, and dumb not to. It has never been this way, and it has always been this way.
Someone has always clinked a cocktail glass in one hemisphere as someone loses a home in another while someone falls in love in the same apartment building where someone grieves. The fact that suffering, mundanity and beauty coincide is unbearable and remarkable.
2. I consider whether its foolish to want to have children at times such as these and I consider that its always been "time such as these" and I consider that its never been worse. Then, in some ways, never been better. Shouldn't my hypothetical future child have their chance to smell honeysuckle and taste berries. (These thoughts roll around my head like marbles that were tossed on a smooth surface.
3. How is a person supposed to do ordinary things like face-wash or big things like fall in love when a quick phone scroll is both advertising discounted designer socks and informing me that 12 million acres have been burned? 12 million?!
I despair, with an exhale. Then I refuse to despair, with an inhale. ("Despair is a tool to control us.")
I scroll some more: A new baby, a new album, a flower, firefighters, a threatened world holds so much.
4. "I must choose between despair and energy - I choose the latter." - Keats.
What does it look like to state in the midst of smoke, I choose energy?
For starters, I choose to finish washing my face.
Then, I choose to look: Not away, but toward.
I choose to trust: First, in goodness. Then, in people I know.
Then, in people I'll never meet.
Always, In myself.
5. I choose to eat less meat/dairy even though yes there are zillions of other ways to help the planet but that should never stop me from doing one thing, and I care about cows and koalas and my cat and the pigeons she watches.
I choose to do the things that I may think are too insignificant to matter, because sometimes protesting is an act of grieving and small choices toward energy keep me from despair.
6. I choose to enjoy.
I choose a new record.
I choose to keep a $5 note in my pocket for someone who may need it.
I choose to text a friend "I'm sending lots of love" and I choose to buy from aboriginal-owned businesses and I choose to show up at a birthday party because grief and celebration often happen in the same night.
“I found out I was in love with you, winter before last,” she said. “I wasn’t going to say anything about it because - well, you know. If you felt anything like that for me, you’d have known I did. But it wasn’t both of us. So there was no good in it. But then, when you told us you’re leaving… At first I thought, all the more reason to say nothing. But then I thought, that wouldn’t be fair. To me, partly. Love has a right to be spoken. And you have a right to know that somebody loves you. That somebody has loved you, could love you. We all need to know that. Maybe it’s what we need most.”
New headcanon: in the trollhunter!Toby timeline, the titans will still rise, but this time Skrael is the last one standing.
Why?
I’m too obsessed with this Robert Frost poem:
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
“It’s not a ‘zero sum’ game anymore than striving for human rights is. Human rights isn’t a pie with a finite number of slices which means if I get one it doesn’t follow that someone else misses out.
And human rights are indivisible - that’s why they’re call rights. You can’t have half a right — and you don’t get to vote on whether I can have human rights or not. If I achieve human equity for my community you don’t lose it for yours.
It might make you feel suitably persecuted to believe this is true but it’s not true. It’s just not.”
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