I was convinced in a RL conversation several years ago that it wasn’t up to China or India or Nigeria or Brasil or South Africa to topple global technolawyerdespotism by themselves, without the population of the United States also doing something to put our rich people in check. It’s also up to Germans, French, etc. too, but it is really necessary that Americans join the global movement to follow sane shit rather than dumb shit or geedy shit or bigot shit.
I think there’s room for insane shit too. Just not combinations with …
… though insane-sane is allowed, as is crazy-talk about a mem-brane.
That’s somewhat related to why Kiran gets into so many fights.
Her basic position is that people in Western countries have no right to criticise revolutions in the Global South unless they first overthrow their own shitty imperialist governments.
Is it entirely easier for us, though? Sliding off the corporate fuck-puddle-pad is ten to twenty years off our life expectancy. The death squad hire lists of American private paramilitary entrepreneurs are ready to go if I form a private paramilitary bandit band. I reject being on the hook for not dying of the kind of mental illness that is killing so many people here from alcoholism, suicide, carelessness, and other shit like treatable cancer that I’ve seen take people I’ve known since I was a kid. I will talk and agitate and offer newer ideas, but my reserved nature is all about holding back in the hut with the hastily dug trenches and other defences put together with neighbors both local and mindedwise on the Internet.
BTW: that Korea book that I’m working my way through?
First time that I’ve been able to read a book in about a year.
One of my standard depression symptoms is the inability to maintain focus for more than a page or so at a time. I can read just fine so long as I skip all over the place, but staying on one thing is difficult.
So, yay? Possibly a sign that my current psychmeds are having some effect.
A new Esha thread: