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I'm a comfortable person in comfortable circumstances, for now at least. I'm talking to my fellow comfortable people now.
Covid19 is not altering the status quo. Rather, it's exposing an unsustainable status quo for what it always was.
Best to understand that.
Covid19 is not altering the status quo. Rather, it's exposing an unsustainable status quo for what it always was.
Best to understand that.
The reason that Covid19 is endangering us all is because our status quo puts very little value on human life and very much value on profit, and will consume the former to secure the latter. The more profit is threatened, the more humans our status quo will allow to be consumed.
Our status quo has been endangering a lot of people in exactly this way for a very long time. For a lot of people, the desperation and insecurity and uncertainty and discomfort we currently feel is just normal life.
Best to understand that.
Best to understand that.
Our status quo has been making people feel threatened and desperate and sick and hurt and dead for a very long time.
Not the way it suddenly is. The way it's always been.
Best to understand that.
Not the way it suddenly is. The way it's always been.
Best to understand that.
It's a status quo that is being *revealed* by the virus, not *created* by it. It consumes people.
A desire to return to the status quo to a point at which it didn't make us feel that way, rather than to fix the status quo, is a very alienating response.
Best to understand that.
A desire to return to the status quo to a point at which it didn't make us feel that way, rather than to fix the status quo, is a very alienating response.
Best to understand that.
If those alienated others don't move you, there's this: it's also not a very wise response.
A status quo that eats people will eat you, eventually, if you are a people.
Best to understand.
A status quo that eats people will eat you, eventually, if you are a people.
Best to understand.
Covid19 may well be the sort of thing we could put behind us for a time, and "get back to normal."
But other crises will come, in time
Best to take a survivable lesson and demand a change, before we meet an unsurvivable one
A status quo that eats people will eventually eat you
But other crises will come, in time
Best to take a survivable lesson and demand a change, before we meet an unsurvivable one
A status quo that eats people will eventually eat you
A status quo that decides who gets medical care based on considerations of cost, who makes caring for the sick a profit center, is a status quo that eats people.
The only way to avoid it is to demand—DEMAND—a status quo that makes medical care available regardless of cost.
The only way to avoid it is to demand—DEMAND—a status quo that makes medical care available regardless of cost.
A status quo that makes human imprisonment a profit center is a status quo that eats people.
The only way to avoid it is to demand—DEMAND—sweeping justice reform, and a status quo that insists that criminals are human beings, and nobody should profit from their punishment.
The only way to avoid it is to demand—DEMAND—sweeping justice reform, and a status quo that insists that criminals are human beings, and nobody should profit from their punishment.
A status quo that decides that educating our children is a cost rather than an investment, from which we should receive adequate renumeration, is a status quo that eats people.
The only way to avoid it is to demand—DEMAND—higher education available to all.
The only way to avoid it is to demand—DEMAND—higher education available to all.
And so with housing the houseless.
And so with police reform.
And so with climate and energy policy.
And so with transportation.
Profit is good only insofar as it exists to improve human life. When that fundamental equation gets reversed, the status quo consumes human life.
And so with police reform.
And so with climate and energy policy.
And so with transportation.
Profit is good only insofar as it exists to improve human life. When that fundamental equation gets reversed, the status quo consumes human life.
Covid19 is, I think and hope, a survivable warning.
If so, we shouldn't count on another.
From where we are right now, comfortable people, we should be willing to stay uncomfortable until we change the status quo that has been exposed to one that won't eventually eat us.
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If so, we shouldn't count on another.
From where we are right now, comfortable people, we should be willing to stay uncomfortable until we change the status quo that has been exposed to one that won't eventually eat us.
/end
Our status quo prioritizes human life low and corporate profits high, and will eagerly consume human life whenever it threatens corporate profit.
Best to understand this.
A status quo that consumes humans will eventually consume you.
As we see here.
https://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1241743756925308934?s=21 https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1241743756925308934
Best to understand this.
A status quo that consumes humans will eventually consume you.
As we see here.
https://twitter.com/jstein_wapo/status/1241743756925308934?s=21 https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1241743756925308934
Our status quo prioritizes human life low and corporate profits high, and will eagerly consume human life whenever it threatens corporate profit.
Best to understand this.
A status quo that consumes humans will eventually consume you.
As we see here.
Best to understand this.
A status quo that consumes humans will eventually consume you.
As we see here.
To be clear: these people were *always* ready to sacrifice millions of lives in order to protect their money, even momentarily.
Look how blithely they do it, the moment we reach that point. Look how comfortable they are to consume their fellow humans. https://twitter.com/nikkimcr/status/1242134979859152899?s=21 https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1242134979859152899
Look how blithely they do it, the moment we reach that point. Look how comfortable they are to consume their fellow humans. https://twitter.com/nikkimcr/status/1242134979859152899?s=21 https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1242134979859152899
If the choice was between losing their 401(k) or murdering their own neighbors with a hammer, all of these hard-nosed pragmatists would go to their tool boxes without even pausing and that’s always been true of them. They’re just revealing it now.
So now we know. https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1242134979859152899
So now we know. https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1242134979859152899
The thing about the chips being down is, you find out what people are like when the chips are down.
And then you know.
This isn’t a new status quo. This is the existing status quo revealing itself for what it always was.
Best to understand that.
And then you know.
This isn’t a new status quo. This is the existing status quo revealing itself for what it always was.
Best to understand that.
They have always been willing to let unfavored “useless eaters” die to protect their wealth.
The only difference between now and last month is they’ve expanded the scope of who they feel it is necessary to consume.
Soon—tomorrow?—they’ll include you too
https://twitter.com/qasimrashid/status/1242265306040598530?s=21 https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1242265306040598530
The only difference between now and last month is they’ve expanded the scope of who they feel it is necessary to consume.
Soon—tomorrow?—they’ll include you too
https://twitter.com/qasimrashid/status/1242265306040598530?s=21 https://twitter.com/QasimRashid/status/1242265306040598530
I think it would be good to join these threads together: https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1243114650314702849?s=20
