The point of life is itself, it is to be and to experience the full breadth of possibility contained therein. Yet you are confined, only free to experience what limited possibilities you are structurally coerced into pursuing. And those are not random, they are those pursuits which enrich a remote and disinterested ruling class.
I have had this feeling you describe, and continue to have it. The best thing you can do for yourself, I believe, is to begin to deeply understand that what you feel you must do is every moment being manipulated to make you useful, even to your own detriment.
Every moment you manage to resist this death drive, this ghostly dog at your ankles, every moment you manage to steal rest, comfort, ease, each moment you manage to do something for yourself even if you are expected to be performing labor, or performing the appearance of labor, you get back some little sliver of yourself. Steal every second you can, every day.
Living my entire life in the shadows of every great crime being laundered through sham trials really leaves me wondering why anyone places such value in obeying laws. Even if there were "good" laws, how could I ever place faith in them?
If I could teach every spineless American liberal one thing with the snap of my finger it is that STEALING IS EASY AND MORALLY CORRECT IN MANY SITUATIONS.
Slavish, mewling deferance to law and authority runs deeper in the American than even the capitalist ideology.
Legalism and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human species.
Can't stop thinking about how computer hobbyists are all anticommunist, some credulously and some with oafish severity, while every chip and circuit they've ever touched and ever will comes from Chinese fabrication lines, and if the US ever seriously tried to challenge Chinese power they would never see an upgrade again. Very funny to me.
Are we gonna say "mask off" every time this happens or are we going to start thinking and acting like it's been off?
@Saoirse
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