@breadandcircuses The idea that a society based on extraction and exploitation is the natural order of things, a human inevitability, that everything -- from our basest physiological needs to our social and psychological needs -- ought to be enclosed, commodified, and sold back to us, is the lie they sell us.
@breadandcircuses
Mutual aid, acts of kinship and solidarity, and finding joy in social life are the things that are truly natural and necessary to social animals such as ourselves. We have forgotten the importance of "play" in forging our social bonds, resting our aging psyches, and creating new forms of existing in communion with nature and the fragile ecosystems that sustain us.
They've taken these away, and conditioned them upon us being their wage-slaves.
A better world is possible.
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