there might be lots of people who just can't be socially holistic at all
there are a lot of people who look like me, and who laugh like me, and have the same motives and desires as me
but i'm a unique experience that can never be fully replaced, i'm more than just my traits, i'm how those traits interact and complement each other, even how they collide with each other, the way they fight, the resolutions they come to
i'm an entire person that's been living my life since the beginning, same as the rest, and there is a cosmic significance in the cosmic insignificance
maybe it's just that the bridge between people who get the big picture and people who get no picture feels so small because once you understand a little, you understand a lot
capitalism actively disincentivizes this way of thinking, it requires a class of struggling people to survive and puts them in a state of "moral obligation to try harder", and takes the energy you have to fight the elites and instead encourages you to fight with, i dunno, your roommates breathing down your neck about rent, your one friend who needs financial help way more than anyone you've ever met, your peers and allies in general
to avoid fighting the wrong people is a constant inner battle worth waging because the true enemy affects them too
once you recognize all people deserve to survive and no amount of preventable deaths is acceptable, everything simply makes sense
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