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What has it given to oppressed people in the United States besides new forms of domination?
I hold these truths to be unstoppable: that all human beings are created equal, that all human beings share the same rights and needs, and that human rights and needs should be given and protected by society. The rights are first when it comes to shaping human experience: life, freedom, and love. To secure these rights, society should be created to include and accept everyone. There's no reason racism needs to exist. Sexism, ableism, queerphobia, human discrimination of all forms are unnecessary for a healthy society to exist. Simply put, all humans are human beings. Difference amongst human beings should not be punished the way it is in this society, where your your skin color determines your income and your sex determines the quality of your education. (Vice versa is true as well.) The needs are physiological: clean water, food, air, shelter, clothing, education, medical care, and temperature regulation (as our climate changes, the need for creating safe climates will only increase). There is a deep inequality around the world when it comes to which humans have their needs and which don't. First World countries take what is not theirs through force. A new society should restore the balance forcefully-- work as hard and skillfully as it can to equalizing humanity, which includes commitment. Our society should pursue the best ways to live life, be free, and love wholeheartedly for centuries.
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My heart has been blocked from coming up with significant new thoughts about love. I think I'm at a point in my practice where love being the basis of life is a given, not something I grapple with accepting. I know pursuit of real love and good science is gonna improve the world. What I rage against every day is how the state of the world violates that principle to abuse the world over and over and over again.
Prompt: What does regeneration mean to me/my community? As most things do with me, hearing the word regeneration reminds me of love. It reminds me that growth can come from trauma. I think of things living and dying and living again in new ways and old ways. I think of persistence and survival. Prompt: What does it look like when all life flourishes together? I imagine huge communities of care where society is built for you to rest & develop into your best self. I imagine serving and being served in return. I imagine spaces where there is free food and water and beds to sleep in where you can go and replenish yourself. Where a regular interaction brings healing into the world, not death. I imagine Gaza rebuilt. Beauty and riches restored to Congo. Endangered species beginning to blossom. The takeover of urban spaces with trees and greenery. We run on renewable energy and all our jobs have something to with improving the Earth and nature, whether it's medicine or cleaning up the ocean or caring for animals or teaching or redistributing wealth and resources making sure everyone everywhere has enough. The world has accepted every human form of love and respects nature. We live health first, prioritize mindfulness, make sure everyone gets the chance to care for someone not in their generation, stay environmentally-cautious, live life like art, dance, sing, write... conscious creation for the better.
I am more myself now and I think that’s all we can truly be. The boxes our society wants to put us in aren’t our places. Our place is our own; it is what we make of it. That's the whole purpose of life. I think it's everyone’s purpose. Accepting all forms of humanity is what we need to create a better society. It is that fucking simple. Tell me, American dreamer, is it because you think this society has nothing to improve on, that’ s why you refuse change? Do you do something because you love your hatred? Do you do nothing because you love nothing? Inaction or action, the result is the same: abuse rules. It rules more viciously through action, but inaction doesn't really do nothing. When you don’t act, you’re certainly not fixing the problem.
... I think if you want to live counter to life, you live believing that life is only one way. There is such a large inability to accept duality, diversity, difference as the foundation for everything human. I believe everything we grow and build should know this. We would be awed by what we could come up with through collaboration. Once we can see how diversity is the strongest foundation for humanity's endeavors, we are bound to see how awful and off-kilter our current world is. But does accepting everybody mean that I need to accept people who only view life as one way? I think I can accept the existence of these people, but I don’t think I could accept that as my way of living. Candidly, I’m not sure if I think it is a way others should even live. If I were to force my opinion on them though, it would not result in a change of mindset. It potentially could, but that line of thinking is emblematic of empire. My way is better, and I’m going to go over to where you are and make you do things my way. If you do ANYTHING I don’t like, don’t understand, or is unpredictable to me, I’ll fuck you up. The violence of empire is a lack of empathetic response and connection, and it’s not something I want to repeat. So what the hell should I do? Is it logical, reasonable, understandable at all that I want to learn as many things as I can about what they don’t want to teach us? I think they’re important. It’s these stories that could change the world. I feel it. And I know that to so many, feeling and faith is not reason enough but it is for me.
I do not wish to be a person of this society. I imagine living in a loving world and I know imagination has been brought to life over and over again. I’m going to at least try. What regrets would I gain from living my life as lovingly as possible for a time? If I must inevitably bow at the knee of white supremacy, if they have claimed my body and reduced me to no one and nothing, I will always have a small solace in my memories. Even if I forget how to remember, I’m living now and making those moments exist in reality for us all. I shall live while fighting, and go down fighting too if I must. I do not wait around for action to happen-- I take it. I act. I do shit. So let’s go fucking do shit. |
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