“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”
— Maya Angelou
Monterey Bay Aquarium
🪼
will byers stan first human second

Andulka
Cosmic Funnies

Love Begins
AnasAbdin
we're not kids anymore.

titsay
Stranger Things
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Today's Document

Kaledo Art
Claire Keane
almost home
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ

PR's Tumblrdome

No title available
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia

seen from Malaysia

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from Indonesia
seen from Germany

seen from Tunisia
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from Germany

seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from Sweden
@unrelentingly
“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”
— Maya Angelou
“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself, the challenge is to silence the mind.”
— Book of serenity
“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.”
— Nikita Gill
I'm going to say what I think nobody else wants to say, and it's the reason nobody wants to do anything:
People would to have to die in a revolution.
But the revolution feels absolutely inevitable. Our economic system demands infinite growth from a finite system, and it's grown so big that it cannot sustain itself anymore. The rich and the ruling class have squeezed about all they can out of us. Our shores are covered with the claw marks of every American who's just trying to climb high enough out of the water to stop drowning. The megarich and ruling class have hoarded more wealth and resources than they can us in a thousand lifetimes, meanwhile, we're running out of money to spread amongst the rest of us to just stay alive.* (see the information under the cut)
We're bombarded with ads no matter what direction we look. Ads while scrolling, ads on the pause screens, ads on the walls, ads on the billboards that litter the sky, ads in stores, ads on packaging, ads on flyers that cover the light poles, ads on cars, ads on music apps, ads that stop you from using an app, ads on loading screens, ads and ads and ads and ads and ads. "Buy, buy, buy! More, more, more!"
You can't even exist in America unless you consume, consume, consume. You have to pay to sit, pay to pee, pay to stand outside, pay to fucking enter. You have to pay a premium for the absolute basics like health care, life saving medication, food, housing, and there's no safety net if something happens to make you unable to afford it. You can hope for the good will of your neighbors, but mostly, you just starve. You just become homeless. You just die.
And god forbid you end up having to borrow money to live and then die before you can pay it back. They can come take your life insurance money from your family to pay the debt. You can't even die in fucking peace. The rich keep taking more, and the poor keep making less, and there's no reprieve coming. They won't help us afford healthcare or food or child care. They won't control rental prices or stop businesses from buying all the houses so we can actually afford them. They keep raising taxes for us but lowering them for the people who can actually afford to pay them. They won't pay us a livable wage or give us any right to work. They won't control the companies most contributing to climate change but don't want to help us if our houses get burned down or taken out in a hurricane. They're actively fighting back against electrical vehicles and renewable energy but they're also taxing us for using gas in our cars. They won't invest in education and they charge us exorbitant interest to borrow our own fucking tax dollars to take out student loans, just so we can get the only jobs that pay even a halfway decent wage. Worst of all, they won't even stop letting businesses buy our useless politicians.
We're drowning and every. single. time. there's a bill that MIGHT give us even a little bit of breathing room, they shoot it down and shove us back under the water. Purely because some rich businessman bribed "lobbied" them to keep making a profit.
Money is a malevolent god, and those who have it will burn this world to the ground before they let us have any of it. We've seen that multiple times throughout history. For the rich and ruling class, there is too much money to be made by keeping things the way they are. They will not let it change willingly.
Nobody wants to say it, but we know it's true. If we try to force a change in the system, they are going to fight back. With the full force of the military and the police if necessary. If you want a revolution, you're going to have to reckon with the implications of that. And you're going to have to decide if you're willing to be the one that sacrifices for it.
If enough people are, then maybe we'll get somewhere.
Information to help you understand the wealth gap in the US under the cut. All numbers are approximate.
Bridge the gap.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
— George Orwell, 1984
Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27
Text ID: I observe how much I have matured since last year despite my belief that I was losing myself, how something strong was born from the painful experiences survived and from the numerous minutes that I believed were wasted.
Social media. What a trip.
The virtual world has become stranger than I can withstand.
Constantly feeling the tension between throwing my hands up in exhaustion
and wanting to hold fast, dive in,
and re-emerge anew
for others to find.
I have been laying dormant.
Nostalgia for the connection I used to feel brings me to raise my heavy head.
Is anyone here? Is it worth it?
Well if I feel comfortable putting my thoughts anywhere
It’s here
“I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.”
Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary,1937-1939
Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
Jane O. Wayne // Kate Jacobs
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own [originally published 1929]
Daily effort: releasing impatience
“I’m not everything I want to be, but l’m more than I was, and l’m still learning.”
— Charlotte Eriksson, Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself
Forgiving myself over and over and over and over. It appears: the first few hundred tries weren’t actually forgiving.
“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.”
— Anthony Hopkins