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percyjacksonscookies · 6 months

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being alive is fucking wild

idk who said this on this stupid blue website but someone once said that were all skyscrapers of information trying not to crash into each other

and the more I live the more I see just how fucking true that is

and then I think about the systems we have in place that brought us here

the ways that people with power exerted that power over others to try and make life feel like more than it is

like.... imagine if instead of Europeans killing off natives with their nasty ass habits and diseases, instead, a disease that native people had, killed off every European that made it to our shores

THEN how would human history have developed? without a continent dedicated to imperialism and exerting power over others??

I like to think that native teachings would have thrived

I like to think that maybe when we figured out how to take care of immediate danger, we would thrive

instead of developing a world where your emotions are suppressed and squashed due to the culture built off of suffering of the many for the luxury of a few, wouldn't it be nice to just...

live?

truly truly live

bills don't exist

you have clean water, food, shelter, electricity, and internet

the community takes care of you and you take care of your community when you can

and the rest is just.....

up to you

theres a reason why the cliché of "life is what you make of it" exists

so people would have the opportunities to pursue what makes themselves happy

or make a miserable lives for themselves, dealing with whatever consequences may come

but they'll be alive to make new decisions

they won't have to make mistakes from being worried sick about how to survive in a world where community is being strangled right before our eyes

idk

thats my utopia

everyone has their basic needs met

if people are assholes, they dont have the power to make other people's lives miserable with their own unhappiness

basically; my utopia is you get to hang out with whoever you want

if someone sucks you can just fuckin leave

they can't control your shelter, clean water, food, electricity, or internet

and if they find themselves alone with no one that wants to be around them, they need to do some haaaaaaard soul searching

I just wanna hang out for a living man

why is that so hard

it shouldn't be

but im hopeful, that one day it won't be hard

were at a point in human history we've never been at before

more connected than ever, yet more isolated because of systems before us out of our control

but

those systems were made by people

so why can't we change it?

#i am thinking so much #i had to vent #ive been thinking a lot about this #i really just wanna hang out and have what i need and pursue whatever interests me #thats been my life for a couple months #and i dont think ive ever been happier #my life is so weird #i moved out of an abusive house when i was 20 but i grew up a lot this year #and i see my mom was truly truly trying her best in a system that targeted who she was and tried to shame the culture out of her #because of systems beyond her control #id like to think id do better if i was in her shoes #but the truth is #i didnt go to a boarding school #i havent lived her life #i bet my mom was so scared at that school that shamed her native language out of her and made her learn how to braid with a dirty mop #she didnt deserve that #no one does #just wondering who we all could be if we didnt have these systems weighing us down #thank for listening to the rant!!!#i can talk so much sometimes #my schtuff

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