The system is failing even for those well positioned to ride the success of (but not hold stake in) the general market. The first upper-middle class runners are coming across the line to find nothing there. How does that effect the tipping point? Is this a marker of a Late Stage?
Does anyone even subscribe to the American Dream anymore? Maybe there isn’t a big pack running behind these first place white men to find a cliff at the finish line.
Is it the last remnants of an experiment burning out, or is it just the first car to crest the rollercoaster?
Or is the suicide stat meaningless and the power structure still favors inherited white male privilege so significantly that it’s dumb to grasp at minor perceived cracks forming? If this then what’s the stat about?
Yeah, more like everyone gets told to take some time off and do self-care. Something totally compatible with working multiple jobs, or working one job with horrible hours, or working and trying to job hunt, or living with kids...
I think some strains of that self-care talk are pure poison. Not all of it, but the stuff that reduces the entirety of one's life into a little individualist box irks me. It seems like a pretty way to keep the status quo going.
That said, my mental health issues have definitely affected my abilities/capacity as an organizer in the last few months, and I wish I was a little better at self-care to maybe calm the whole thing down a bit so I can get back to work and can stop feeling like I'm letting my comrades down constantly.
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That sounds hella up my alley. Thanks!