I'm depressed. And I'm not alone. Go on social media and look around. Check out the people who don't have huge followings, who are in their late 20s and 30s. Listen. They're depressed too.
Look at the numbers. The women choosing to no longer marry. The women choosing to not have children.
Take a look at the Republican party who has declared war on women and on Americans who are in their 20s, 30s and 40s. Look at how they turn their backs on the school shootings, on the cis het male groomers and abusers. Watch them talk about God on the pulpit and abuse children in the silence.
Those children are depressed.
The video of the father who discovered his 11 year old daughter was being groomed by an adult man and had naked pictures of her. He went to the police. The police threatened to arrest the 11 year old girl for distributing pornography.
ACAB.
We're depressed. We're lying in bed wondering why should we bother when you never get ahead? Society is failing. We are only as strong as our weakest member and she's being threatened by the police for being abused.
Look at what we could be. The fluidity of gender, the destruction of a binary that makes no sense. Oh how I wish I was young. To find a partner who is Enby (NB) and live without the roles that have never worked. To love someone for who and not what because what is the thing that kills us.
We could redistribute wealth. Solve childhood hunger. Take guns out of our everyday lives. Hunters should be able to legally hunt. Children should never be shot in a school. Can you imagine the generational trauma this group is going to have?
I'm so fucking depressed. I miss my daughter so much but feel like the only path to happiness is to be in any other country but ours.
We are choosing to destroy our future generations. It's so depressing.
Love you all. Buy blankets. Soft blankets. Make a fort and hide. Stay safe.
I know I'm privileged--I'm still employed and so far what I make is enough to keep in the black--not much into it, but at least not red, right?
ReplyDeleteBut I dream, so often, about coming into a lot of money (lottery, if I only bought tickets), and going on a spree of topping off GFM for people who need a new wheelchair; for those who are drowning in medical debt and can't work to pay it off; who lost someone and now are held hostage by the funeral home for thousands of dollars which were never disclosed before they took possession of someone's loved one's body; for people working full time and still coming short in rent/mortgage/insurance/car payments.
So much need all around us.
And then we have the billionaires who can't be bothered to part with two fucking cents per dollar over a million dollars in annual income.
And we have the politicians who increase the military and police budgets every single fucking year, while cutting budgets for any social programs, especially for the very young and the elderly, entirely.
Society is breaking down, and climate change is going to make it a violent break sooner rather than later.
The world is going to hell in a handbasket and it's not a fun ride.
ReplyDeleteWish I could come up and give y'all a hug.