SOAPBOX TIME
I hate how many times I read things like "nobody cares about the world" and "humanity is the virus" and "our species is too inept/evil/selfish to survive" online. I almost never see anyone talking about the many, many people who are doing incredibly hard, complex, good work
It's not that "nobody cares." Rich people don't care. They don't want anyone or anything to prevent them from doing exactly what they want, all the time, with no consequence.
Rich people care, just not about you, and they're worried -- since there's a lot more of those they don't care about than there are of them -- that the restraints on our collective straitjackets aren't tight enough
So what I'm hearing is that im addition to working to improve our local spaces in small ways, we *really* need to be sharing more stories of community wins. This is how we remind folks that there are more of us & there's power in solidarity, even working at small scale! 💚
Exactly. The people with actual POWER don't care. We can all do our best to improve the world around us, but that doesn't change the reality that the people in charge are the ones that determine what happens to us.
