We need to save each other

from our oppressors

Hi, It’s been a year since the occupying state of Israel escalated it’s genocide of Palestinians which started 76 years ago. I’m thinking a lot about how we’ve been miseducated. Onto the news..

News that made me say stop listening to your oppressors…again

Why were we learning how to diagram sentences instead of learning how to build rafts? Why were we reading books from dead white men instead of learning how to grow our own food? I’ll tell you why, it’s because it wasn’t just Lauryn Hill that was miseducated, we were all miseducated. If you get that Lauryn reference, then I’m sorry your mother used to interrupt your internet browsing by calling to check on you to make sure you got home okay from school. Mom, I’m not okay. I was just winning my Tetris game when you ruined everything.

I will always remember that story of those indigenous kids who survived in the forest for 40 days because they could forage for food in the forest. I can’t even forage for food in my own fridge. I know what a VLOOKUP is though. Can I VLOOKUP my way through the apocalypse?

These were some of my initial thoughts of seeing some of the footage of Hurricane Helene’s destruction. We are not prepared for the apocalypse nor do we know how to survive it! 

The climate catastrophe that we’ve all been told was going to happen if rich people didn’t stop warming up the planet so they can buy yachts is here. Hurricane Helene caused the death of over 200 people, power outages, and left many stranded. I think it’s time we start naming hurricanes after corporations or rich people so people know who caused the damage. No one named Helene deserves to be associated with a storm that uprooted so many lives. Unless Helene is a CEO, then they deserve it! 

Hurricane Helene happened because we’ve been miseducated by the people oppressing us about how to bring about change. Shockingly, the government didn’t give us a manual on revolting! (The Spook Who Sat by Door is a pretty good manual though.) As scientists have been ringing the alarm on global climate change, Joe Biden has been sleeping during climate conferences and oil companies have continued to poison our planet.

We’ve been told the best ways to change things is to vote, call our elected officials, and protest in a way that doesn’t inconvenience the ruling class. Essentially the ruling class has told us to ask them, the people who are causing global climate change to stop global climate change. The government has also said we have to ask the perpetrators nicely or else they will send the police to arrest us. We have to stop listening to our oppressors. 

If we had not asked nicely and used our collective power to stop participating in activities that are warming the planet, then the climate catastrophe would not be upon us. If we used our collective power to stop the machinations of the United States military instead of fighting with our co-workers over Slack, there wouldn’t be multiple genocides.

I’m not saying you were wrong for calling out Susan for finishing your soymilk. I’m just saying if we all agreed that we wanted to live in a better world, you wouldn’t have to worry about your co-workers finishing your soy milk because you wouldn’t have to go to an office that sucks your soul.

That’s it for the news but don’t go yet

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