Post #1165974

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/116397364357512184 Finally recognizing that sickness exists allows for diagnosis; diagnosis allows for opportunity to finally start doing better: The remedy is going to need to involve the deconstruction of the empire and the ideologies that undergird it: our collective worship of capitalism and profit, of billionaires and other predators, of punishment, of military, of policing—all will have to be deconstructed and dismantled, and be replaced with a institutions born of a commitment to a pluralistic, diverse, open world dedicated not to individual domination but universal interconnected thriving. [...] There will have to be a purge of our Republican Nazis from every level of government. There will have to be an overthrow of the corrupt corporate leaders of the establishment Democratic party. There will need to be a general outlawing of billionaires. We'll need to deconstruct our military and our police and our prisons. We will need to build parks and transportation and housing. We will need to subsidize art and music and poetry and philosophy and literature. We will need to fund day cares and libraries and schools. ...and this bit mirrors what I've been saying lately about how we need to get all the sensible people working together in a way that successfully tunes out the BS factory so we can finally start making positive changes: If a person hasn't yet been persuaded to seek remedy by a madman with a nuclear arsenal and an increased willingness to use it, I think we need to leave them to their skepticism and save our energies for finding people who are serious about health, and pursuing the remedy without the help or permission of those who are not.