Really exceptional writing. I think it explains why people are so stupidly obsessed with buying lottery tickets, despite the odds of winning being slim to none. Your work makes it clear what a risk it would be to even get that rich.
Money changes people. Hell when I used to get a tax return, I thought I was hot shit. 😂 But this obsession has driven us insane. We have forgotten who we are. We toil our lives away for these Mountain’s O Things only to have no one show up at our funeral. And for what? An iPhone 9000? 🤦♀️💔
For sure! The sheer number of hideous strip malls, Home Goods, Petsmart, Dollar Stores, etc. and the limitless consumer crappiness they contain drives me crazy. My parents were suburban, country club Republicans, whose lifestyle I rejected, in favor of a more simple, albeit low income rural life, where I learned to be self reliant, and to be a part of a real nurturing community. Grateful for that.
You really are building a comparison between community and corporation.
It goes back a lot further than the Boston Harbor.
If you look at what you are describing, and consider, instead of Elon, Eric Prince or a mafia Don, you might recognize that the system you are raised in possesses the individual, and occupies what ancients might have considered the soul of our being.
"Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls, as well as a quantitative change in our lives."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The modern Corporation, as run by people like Prince, is the ancient equivalent of "Legion" and the people you call billionaires are their actual product. Regardless of what they buy and sell to make the body move and and act. It's something that people have thought of for a long time.
Like Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus."
I really wish people would take the election map, and act to preserve or save the communities that have have kept cities blue dots as an organizing principle for the way forward. We have been under attack for a long time, and we have supported many other communities and even whole states for long time.
Now we need help. Remember that when you are using those communities to host protests. we want to give you the platform for change, but if the medium is the message, give some value back to the places that make it possible.
“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I'm sorry to scream into the ether like this, but I am grateful for the inspiration of your piece.
This is seriously so, so good, Tiffany!!!
Thank you, Nick. I’m so honored you would say that ❤️❤️
Really exceptional writing. I think it explains why people are so stupidly obsessed with buying lottery tickets, despite the odds of winning being slim to none. Your work makes it clear what a risk it would be to even get that rich.
Money changes people. Hell when I used to get a tax return, I thought I was hot shit. 😂 But this obsession has driven us insane. We have forgotten who we are. We toil our lives away for these Mountain’s O Things only to have no one show up at our funeral. And for what? An iPhone 9000? 🤦♀️💔
For sure! The sheer number of hideous strip malls, Home Goods, Petsmart, Dollar Stores, etc. and the limitless consumer crappiness they contain drives me crazy. My parents were suburban, country club Republicans, whose lifestyle I rejected, in favor of a more simple, albeit low income rural life, where I learned to be self reliant, and to be a part of a real nurturing community. Grateful for that.
Sobering read, but necessary. We have to save our country ourselves.
This is SO GOOD. Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much, Susan. Sometimes I get pages into these things and just want to scream DOES ANYONE GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANY OF THIS 😂😂❤️
I am internally screaming the same thing 😭😭😭
Brava!
Thank you, Kathleen! 🥰
This is a one great read. Man, you bitched it out perfectly! Every word rings so true and with such fire. I love it!!!
Great piece.
You really are building a comparison between community and corporation.
It goes back a lot further than the Boston Harbor.
If you look at what you are describing, and consider, instead of Elon, Eric Prince or a mafia Don, you might recognize that the system you are raised in possesses the individual, and occupies what ancients might have considered the soul of our being.
"Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls, as well as a quantitative change in our lives."
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The modern Corporation, as run by people like Prince, is the ancient equivalent of "Legion" and the people you call billionaires are their actual product. Regardless of what they buy and sell to make the body move and and act. It's something that people have thought of for a long time.
Like Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus."
I really wish people would take the election map, and act to preserve or save the communities that have have kept cities blue dots as an organizing principle for the way forward. We have been under attack for a long time, and we have supported many other communities and even whole states for long time.
Now we need help. Remember that when you are using those communities to host protests. we want to give you the platform for change, but if the medium is the message, give some value back to the places that make it possible.
“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I'm sorry to scream into the ether like this, but I am grateful for the inspiration of your piece.