True. I have family there who don't give a shit about non-day-to-day domestic issues. Part of the control over the outside is people getting cancelled/fired over pro-Palestine tweets. Ai Weiwei is a ridiculous situation.
True. I have family there who don't give a shit about non-day-to-day domestic issues. Part of the control over the outside is people getting cancelled/fired over pro-Palestine tweets. Ai Weiwei is a ridiculous situation.
No one among my friends and family follow much less care about anything further than a hundred mile radius of where they live. I've never been like that. I did sever ties with all news for nearly a decade but not because I didn't care or understand. I could see nothing good happening and it was affecting my health. Ironically, the COVID farce brought me back. It took days to see the narrative parade and less than 2 weeks to decide the whole thing was one. I caught up pretty fast. But I can't interest the people closest to me in anything outside of their usual bubbles. It's a bigger club than the one we fight and we aren't in it either. Cold, but I'm hoping others are seeing more thaw than I do personally. Warmth is a state of mind.
Same, mine is a lonely world. I struggle constantly with wanting to shine light and thinking darkness infinite. I was better when I was doing more than words, but my government fucked me up.
I remember. You described that time. I've not been in any public forums before to get that kind of brutality. But I've had run ins of different kinds (mostly financial) from my governments at every level that were anything but positive. It is a small but consistently present part of my belief that it as an institution can't be fixed because it is hopelessly infiltrated at every decision making level and juncture. But that is because it was always designed to be. We have an expression I believe was formed here - "You can't fight city hall". I think it was said first about Tammany Hall mob rule government. But completely true because the same style mafia controls every one. The only winning play is to not pick up that ball. Or racket either.
True. I have family there who don't give a shit about non-day-to-day domestic issues. Part of the control over the outside is people getting cancelled/fired over pro-Palestine tweets. Ai Weiwei is a ridiculous situation.
No one among my friends and family follow much less care about anything further than a hundred mile radius of where they live. I've never been like that. I did sever ties with all news for nearly a decade but not because I didn't care or understand. I could see nothing good happening and it was affecting my health. Ironically, the COVID farce brought me back. It took days to see the narrative parade and less than 2 weeks to decide the whole thing was one. I caught up pretty fast. But I can't interest the people closest to me in anything outside of their usual bubbles. It's a bigger club than the one we fight and we aren't in it either. Cold, but I'm hoping others are seeing more thaw than I do personally. Warmth is a state of mind.
Same, mine is a lonely world. I struggle constantly with wanting to shine light and thinking darkness infinite. I was better when I was doing more than words, but my government fucked me up.
I remember. You described that time. I've not been in any public forums before to get that kind of brutality. But I've had run ins of different kinds (mostly financial) from my governments at every level that were anything but positive. It is a small but consistently present part of my belief that it as an institution can't be fixed because it is hopelessly infiltrated at every decision making level and juncture. But that is because it was always designed to be. We have an expression I believe was formed here - "You can't fight city hall". I think it was said first about Tammany Hall mob rule government. But completely true because the same style mafia controls every one. The only winning play is to not pick up that ball. Or racket either.
Financial is the same as any other kind of attack. I had 14 cases against me i.e., impossible to fight. I empathise.
All we get for the trouble. Empathy. But I wouldn't trade places with an unaware slave to the system with intact finances. So there's that.
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