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Life Update: Breaking the silence
5 years ago
"Justice Is Fairness
Discipline is Honor
Honesty is Nobility"
-Taladrian
Discipline is Honor
Honesty is Nobility"
-Taladrian
Hello everyone,
just letting you guys know I'm alive and well, temporarily unemployed due to the coronavirus(though I do have a job to go back to when its over), my partner, our dogs are doing fine too and I hope all of you are keeping yourselves healthy and sane.
It's been a year since I wrote last, there's a lot of reasons why, fighting depression and anxiety, and simply I'm burned out, I see the society around me and I'm burned out on America.
As I try to find a path forward, the pandemic of covid-19 just exposed all the weakenesses the world system has and especially the United States, dealing with a once in a century level pandemic with the worst leader possible to deal with it.
I have hoped he would step up, he had a brilliant chance to step up and help the nation get through the worst pandemic impact wise in a century, last time we had anything near this was the Spanish flu of 1918. Yet...his ego was too much, he had a chance to do a good job as a president but he did not, ignored warnings, downplayed it, until it was in his face that it cannot be ignored and explicitly said he takes no responsibiltiy and it shows. He blames everyone else but himself for his failures and instead even the truth of covid-19 has gone political.
Every other 1st world nation has dealt with this more maturely and now you have a bunch of idiots protesting their right to go out there and do what they want jeopardizing everyone else, I swear I have never seen so much stupidity, narcissism and just plain selfishness. Our country has lost a lot of its solidarity in exchange for the selfish pursuit of materialism at the cost of everything else. Covid-19 is seen by some as an inconvenience, sure it's an inconvenience I know it is, it sucks, but it's temporary, if everyone do their part we can get over this by now if we tested and prepared when we had three months to do something about it. But it was ignored, and covid-19 exposed all the inequalities and in a lot of ways, the call of Bernie Sanders for universal healthcare, and a comprehensive social system to help the most vulnerable among us has been proven right. As one article put it, reality has endorsed Bernie Sanders.
The Free market has proven to be not very useful in a crisis, it's a false god that our country has worshiped for too long, making money is fine but not at the expense of others, with millions now out of the job, they need to still pay rent and the like, the US government had no choice but to provide money for those that lost their incomes lest they want a mass revolt. But it seems the government is so steeped in corporate money it bailed out the corporations again, and only giving breadcrumbs to the people and small businesses who are the real engine of the economy. The people we ridiculed and paid as low as we legally can have proven to be "Essential workers" despite their pay and their rights didn't reflect that. There's just so much to unpack here that I need to probably write another article after this. Furthermore we're not even fully locked down but just a patchwork of states doing measures on their own when the US Federal government isn't doing much to help, Trump still being a vindictive asshole even in a crisis shows he's not fit to be president, and this is what we get for electing an incompetent narcissistic reality tv show host but then again, the Democrats play a role in this too, the Republicans maybe steeped in corruption, the Democrats aren't far behind. The backstabbing they do to insist upon quite often, the least qualified of their candidates to go against the least qualified the GOP had, it seems like a race to the bottom if anything.
At times it put me in despair, that it seems universal healthcare, an affordable higher education system and basic worker's rights such as paid sick leave which we temporarily achieve seems too much even for the Democratic establishment(though that might change), and it shows really they couldn't give up on that sweet sweet corporate money, despite none of these ideas are radical, none of it is, it's normal in every first world country, but here I guess you might as well try to advocate gender equality in Saudi Arabia, it ain't gonna go very far for a long time. Seeing reform seems to be years away and showing the established parties are corrupt(though one is way more corrupt than the other) and see us as expendable as some politicians explicitly wanted people to sacrifice themselves at the altar of the dollar. It makes me want to make long term plans to emigrate, cause it's something my parents did, they didn't like what was going on in their countries and felt they couldn't change anything there, so they left to a country that upheld human rights better at least at the time. It's amazing the year I was born the US was the best country to be born in but it's clearly an empire in decline with an inept and corrupt political establishment, with crumbling infrastructure and can't even provide basics for its citizens nor protect them properly in the event of a pandemic, it is essentially as someone said on Facebook a third world country with a gucci belt.
However, there is still hope, I hope that maybe after going through this crisis people will see what's really going on and perhaps inspire positive change that'll benefit everyone, they are some signs of it, as voices for reform get louder but at the same time clashing with individuals with a cult-like mentality to their dear leader who conned them hard, like a very abusive relationship. It's a very troubling time and I hope goodness will prevail, but I have lost faith in the country, I have lost faith in capitalism, I have lost faith in this culture, I'm frankly disillusioned and full of anger, disappointment and a lot of times despair yet, I feel I need to continue to hope and have faith that a better society going beyond our outdated look at life. I think there needs to be something better, we need to do better, we can do better if we really want to. Because the direction we're going in frankly unsustainable, and I hope we learn solidarity and that we cannot call ourselves moral unless we love our neighbor what we love for ourselves, then perhaps we will find a much better society based on equality, justice and freedom for everyone, regardless of their ethnicity, gender or orientation.
Still I pray we all will come out of this okay, I wish all of you to keep your health and stay safe, we will get over this crisis, I just hope we will learn from it and become better after this.
Peace.
Also bonus read:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-.....bernie-sanders
Data on the Coronavirus, which proves it is quite comparable to the Spanish Flu and much more dangerous compared to the common flu:
https://informationisbeautiful.net/.....phic-datapack/
just letting you guys know I'm alive and well, temporarily unemployed due to the coronavirus(though I do have a job to go back to when its over), my partner, our dogs are doing fine too and I hope all of you are keeping yourselves healthy and sane.
It's been a year since I wrote last, there's a lot of reasons why, fighting depression and anxiety, and simply I'm burned out, I see the society around me and I'm burned out on America.
As I try to find a path forward, the pandemic of covid-19 just exposed all the weakenesses the world system has and especially the United States, dealing with a once in a century level pandemic with the worst leader possible to deal with it.
I have hoped he would step up, he had a brilliant chance to step up and help the nation get through the worst pandemic impact wise in a century, last time we had anything near this was the Spanish flu of 1918. Yet...his ego was too much, he had a chance to do a good job as a president but he did not, ignored warnings, downplayed it, until it was in his face that it cannot be ignored and explicitly said he takes no responsibiltiy and it shows. He blames everyone else but himself for his failures and instead even the truth of covid-19 has gone political.
Every other 1st world nation has dealt with this more maturely and now you have a bunch of idiots protesting their right to go out there and do what they want jeopardizing everyone else, I swear I have never seen so much stupidity, narcissism and just plain selfishness. Our country has lost a lot of its solidarity in exchange for the selfish pursuit of materialism at the cost of everything else. Covid-19 is seen by some as an inconvenience, sure it's an inconvenience I know it is, it sucks, but it's temporary, if everyone do their part we can get over this by now if we tested and prepared when we had three months to do something about it. But it was ignored, and covid-19 exposed all the inequalities and in a lot of ways, the call of Bernie Sanders for universal healthcare, and a comprehensive social system to help the most vulnerable among us has been proven right. As one article put it, reality has endorsed Bernie Sanders.
The Free market has proven to be not very useful in a crisis, it's a false god that our country has worshiped for too long, making money is fine but not at the expense of others, with millions now out of the job, they need to still pay rent and the like, the US government had no choice but to provide money for those that lost their incomes lest they want a mass revolt. But it seems the government is so steeped in corporate money it bailed out the corporations again, and only giving breadcrumbs to the people and small businesses who are the real engine of the economy. The people we ridiculed and paid as low as we legally can have proven to be "Essential workers" despite their pay and their rights didn't reflect that. There's just so much to unpack here that I need to probably write another article after this. Furthermore we're not even fully locked down but just a patchwork of states doing measures on their own when the US Federal government isn't doing much to help, Trump still being a vindictive asshole even in a crisis shows he's not fit to be president, and this is what we get for electing an incompetent narcissistic reality tv show host but then again, the Democrats play a role in this too, the Republicans maybe steeped in corruption, the Democrats aren't far behind. The backstabbing they do to insist upon quite often, the least qualified of their candidates to go against the least qualified the GOP had, it seems like a race to the bottom if anything.
At times it put me in despair, that it seems universal healthcare, an affordable higher education system and basic worker's rights such as paid sick leave which we temporarily achieve seems too much even for the Democratic establishment(though that might change), and it shows really they couldn't give up on that sweet sweet corporate money, despite none of these ideas are radical, none of it is, it's normal in every first world country, but here I guess you might as well try to advocate gender equality in Saudi Arabia, it ain't gonna go very far for a long time. Seeing reform seems to be years away and showing the established parties are corrupt(though one is way more corrupt than the other) and see us as expendable as some politicians explicitly wanted people to sacrifice themselves at the altar of the dollar. It makes me want to make long term plans to emigrate, cause it's something my parents did, they didn't like what was going on in their countries and felt they couldn't change anything there, so they left to a country that upheld human rights better at least at the time. It's amazing the year I was born the US was the best country to be born in but it's clearly an empire in decline with an inept and corrupt political establishment, with crumbling infrastructure and can't even provide basics for its citizens nor protect them properly in the event of a pandemic, it is essentially as someone said on Facebook a third world country with a gucci belt.
However, there is still hope, I hope that maybe after going through this crisis people will see what's really going on and perhaps inspire positive change that'll benefit everyone, they are some signs of it, as voices for reform get louder but at the same time clashing with individuals with a cult-like mentality to their dear leader who conned them hard, like a very abusive relationship. It's a very troubling time and I hope goodness will prevail, but I have lost faith in the country, I have lost faith in capitalism, I have lost faith in this culture, I'm frankly disillusioned and full of anger, disappointment and a lot of times despair yet, I feel I need to continue to hope and have faith that a better society going beyond our outdated look at life. I think there needs to be something better, we need to do better, we can do better if we really want to. Because the direction we're going in frankly unsustainable, and I hope we learn solidarity and that we cannot call ourselves moral unless we love our neighbor what we love for ourselves, then perhaps we will find a much better society based on equality, justice and freedom for everyone, regardless of their ethnicity, gender or orientation.
Still I pray we all will come out of this okay, I wish all of you to keep your health and stay safe, we will get over this crisis, I just hope we will learn from it and become better after this.
Peace.
Also bonus read:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-.....bernie-sanders
Data on the Coronavirus, which proves it is quite comparable to the Spanish Flu and much more dangerous compared to the common flu:
https://informationisbeautiful.net/.....phic-datapack/
I'm SO going to start using this. It hits hard.
I totally agree with all of this. There is such an overwhelming amount of stupidity and malice that it feels utterly hopeless for the time being. But there are plenty of examples of things to be hopeful about. Personally, I love hearing about strikes and walkouts and all kinds of labor action. That's gonna be so important from here on out, and I hope this shows workers what power they really have when they stand in solidarity.
But yeah I'm just feeling burned out from it all even before covid-19 came along this administration is simply toxic even when just reading the news about it. But it's extremely hard to ignore at the same time, as Jon Stewart say the presidency is supposed to gray the president not the rest of us. But yeah hopefully the "essential" workers would be able to get some real change for them, as it is many are getting pay raises and some are gaining paid sick leave but I hope it becomes more widespread that workers can get the bare minimum that other first world countries already have.
Thankfully that's given me a bit more drive to chat with people more one-on-one and that's been nice. Especially being stuck at home all the time now
Reading some of the things our president says, I am beyond shocked. Even the staunchest republicans I know are in disbelief.
Something I've been saying to my more doomsday friends since this started: the viral outbreak doesn't have me as worried as people during a viral outbreak do. I have no doubt this nation and many, if not all, others will survive. I just don't know what's going to be left.
It's easy to grow disillusioned with society, but it also helps to take a step back and look at the wider world to understand the context of it all. When you get acquainted with understanding *why* these flaws exist as a product of a larger system, it's harder to be upset over stuff you understand. Even looking back ten years ago the world has changed remarkably for the better IMHO.