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#I'm posting this to mick Lynch's tag because lots of people are using it but look at me!!!! We are NOT going to build a cult of personality
drumlincountry · 2 years
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Strikes are a great opportunity to consciously appreciate what other people do for you without u noticing! Which is 1. Good for our common wellbeing (builds solidarity). 2. Good for your personal wellbeing (gratitude, hope, and connection are better headmates than despair, alienation, and loneliness). 3. Good for wellbeing of the strike and the union (directs the anger about the strike where they should be, aimed the people who are mistreating workers)
Like @ my UK folllowers. The rail strike is super fucking annoying right? You can't get where you need to go! Your life is more difficult right now. The flip side of that is these rail workers have been making your life quietly, subtly easier for years and years and years!
Capitalism loves to obscure these relationships - and it's true that they're mostly impersonal relationships. You're not FRIENDS with everyone who grows your food or makes your clothes or drives your trains or cleans your city.
You will never meet most of the people whose daily work supports your life - or most of the people who benefit from your work! But they're real. We're real. And we're really helping each other. That's a real connection. They're people you owe a lot to.
And these people who make your life better every day are suffering for it! They haven't been treated fairly or right.
It's easy to just get annoyed at the inconvenience of strike action, and God knows there are powerful forces urging that annoyance. But this is how we can regain some of our lost humanity, in this system of violence that crushes us all. This is what solidarity is. These people have been helping you. This is time to learn, connect, support. Help them back.
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