money always wins all my friends are activists, you know? politically we all agree on certain things: that all life is valuable, that there is a level of basic comfort we want other human beings to have, that we all play a role in mutual success. i don't really know how to encapsulate the feeling i have looking around seeing everyone i know do everything they can do create the world they want to see, including donating money we don't really have when we're collectively drown in debt, while billionaires exist that could blink and provide everyone in the world a good quality of life. how do you even begin to address so wide an ideological gap? i come from a camp of people who truly believe that most people are good in their hearts, but sometimes the evidence speaks to the contrary. there are evil people in the world, there is selfishness so vast most of us can't even comprehend it. i feel so tired. this is the kind of tension that never ends, it only changes shape. |