All due respect no judgment etc. etc. but people that see things like charting a career path and networking and building a personal brand as all part of a big fun game to play and win and not just a matter of grim economic necessity that pits us all against each other while keeping us completely unfulfilled in every way that counts, those people need to srsly reevaluate things and at the very least have a small amount of consideration for the fact that others understandably may not feel that way and their frustrations and anxieties over all of it may seem silly and childish but probs still shouldn’t be met and dismissed with glib assertions about just finding a better job or the right job or a way to make money doing what u love™, like I love a lot of things, we live in a lovely lovable world despite all we’ve done to it, but the things I love can’t conceivably be contorted into forms that’ll easily fit within our rigidly narrowly conceived notion of profitability, and unless I can gaslight myself into falling in love with like, sales or building apps for millionaires to skim more off the top of already existing industries, I’ll be stuck grinding myself into pieces in completely unfulfilling situations for very little return, a prospect that fills me with even more dread than I tend to feel in the best of situations, but also I need to like help out my parents so the prospect of washing out and losing even this fills me with even more dread so maybe I’m just an immature baby but also maybe I might actually have good reason for finding it all disheartening and demoralizing and not faaaiiiiiir
no offense but millennial’s are addicted to consumption and i don’t see where fundamental change can take place in a tech and entertainment addicted lobotomy culture
Look. I’m not trying to be rude, but I am gonna be real.
You saying you’ve lost faith in “humanity” isn’t worth shit. It doesn’t challenge anything, it doesn’t mean anything. Statements like this evaporate the very nature of oppression and dissolve who is oppressor/beneficiary and who is oppressed. The continuous occurrence of black people being killed by white police isn’t some ubiquitous urgency for which all of “humanity” is at fault. White supremacy, white privilege, a virulently anti black economical/social/political system is at fault and all those who validate it, at any time, are at fault.
And honestly, who the fuck are you to declare that you’ve lost faith in humanity? There are many amazing people from Toni Morrison to Cornel West to Angela Davis to Harry Belafonte who have seen the absolute worst American domestic (and foreign, if we’re being real) terrorism has had to offer and they live with hope in their hearts and revolution on their minds everyday. You don’t get to dismiss the amazing work of my elders and the youth of my community because you lost faith. And you don’t get to come into my inbox and bombarde me with your reactionary garbage when you can’t even locate systems at fault and would prefer to lazily dredge up vague concepts like “humanity”. If we don’t have hope, we have nothing. No praxis. Angela Davis has spoken on this topic many times before. About how those who discuss the world as a perpetually stagnant place and throw their hands in defeat are counteractive to any revolutionary thought.
One of her most relevant quotes. “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
Do I have “faith” in the system? Absolutely not. But I do have faith in the resilience of my people and all oppressed people by Empire, whether we’re talking Pakistan, Mexico, the Congo, Somalia, Palestine, Iraq and beyond. I have faith in the abundance in domestic and transnational solidarity, coalition building and activism that comes from tragedies and injustice. And yes, these are the positives amongst “humanity” which you collectively condemn.
Which leads into my final point, whether or nor you realize it, you mean white people. And your equivalence of white people with “humanity” is actually pretty fucking racist and legitimatizes the dehumanization of everyone who isn’t white, especially black people in this context, which ironically, is how we’re at the point of a black man can get killed on camera and a grand jury in majority decides his life isn’t even worth a trial.
“When I asked a number of acquaintances to name the female spirits that stand out the most in their minds, two names seemed to prevail. Bloody Mary, that apparition every preteen girl dreads seeing in the mirror during a slumber party game, was the first. The second was, if I may quote one respondent, “The girl in The Ring. For me, the scariest are dark-haired, lurchy, wet women. What does that say?!” What does it say? What both of these answers, as well as many others, say, for one thing, is that female ghosts are particularly scary because the source of the pain that keeps them haunting the living world isn’t supernatural at all, but the result of being all too human.
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When you can pause for a moment between waves of stomach-churning heebie-jeebies, you realize that not only are these women sympathetic characters, but they’re all the more terrifying because they have every bit of anger that makes living women sources of fear, but none of the societal restriction. In this way, ghost stories are often protofeminist tales of women who, if only in death, subvert the assumptions and traditions of women as dutiful wives and mothers, worshipful girlfriends, or obedient children by unleashing a lifetime’s worth of rage and retribution. In the feminist horror zine Ax Wound, Collen Wanglund theorizes that the Asian female ghost is an inherently feminist figure whose very presence is a symbol of how deeply men fear female power. Their vengeance isn’t necessarily aimed at the person who wronged them, and as such it’s as unthinking and randomly destructive as systems of patriarchy.”
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