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Jane Price's avatar

Great lines: “ : The late-stage capitalism and the blind eyes turned to the harm caused in pursuit of more and better and now. The greed and the violence and the isolation and the despair and the apathy and the overwhelm. The me-first and not-my-problem and nothing-we-can-do and they-had-it-coming and waste-of-time and bad-news-burnout and that’s-just-how-those-people-are and it’s-just-a-dusty-shithole-anyway, what-does-it-have-to-do-with-me I’m-not-political mentality. The phobias and isms. The never-ending need to Other. The chasm between unthinkably wealthy and can-barely-afford-groceries. The billionaires and their stans. The supremacists and their justifications. The fragility and toxicity. The obstinate ignorance. The belligerent entitlement. The empathy-as-performance. The virtue-as-concealment. The exhaustion, the exhaustion, the weight of the whole world.”

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mindful migrant's avatar

Yet again you manage to write as though you are INSIDE my head. I have been feeling all of that hyphenated hand-wringing you mentioned. And also feeling like I want to help in some small way though I'm never really sure how or where to start. Thanks for showing me the way.

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