It's 2012, happy end of the world. Whether or not its true, this last year has been full of change.
I moved away from my mother, joined the local Anarchist Bookfair collective and started putting in an effort to meet new people. My medical treatments did get upgraded because I haven't gotten any better but hopefully I'll being seeing results soon, or just changing them until I do. Looking after myself is almost a priority now, but being halfway happy half of the time is something I've gotten good at. I got 200 hours in Oblivion There was a lot of miserable crap but its not worth dwelling on; it's more important to keep moving forward.
In memorial of my best friend who passed away August 2010, I quit drinking. Even though there wasn't any result shared from the autopsy, no one who knew her doubted that her drinking had a hand in whatever happened and it hasn't been easy but I've stuck to it for 7 months. Being a drunk is no way to honour someone who drank themselves to death.
It feels really odd to be proud of myself for getting things together this last year but I never have had to before. I got to grow up a lot, and I'm actually looking forward to whatever is going to happen next. So I don't bugger things up so terribly, I actually got an organizer and I'm not going to ditch it after a month. I don't really do resolutions, otherwise I'd post 'em, but here's to not fucking everything up.
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2012-01-03
2011-08-30
HTIC: Stuck From Birth
We don't even get a break when we're children: the media starts imposing things on us from day one. There is loads of good commentary on this, but I'd recommend the video on Feminist Frequency . Implanted in us at an early age is the idea that girls need these pretty things and that boys need to make the world for themselves. Even as preschoolers we have it pushed on us that females are second class and only really there to serve and support men until its time to get married, then its up to the man to pay for everything or else he doesn't really love you. Fundamentally, the way the corporations infiltrate childrens' minds is violating, but if you're too young to know you're being manipulated, who can stop them?
As we get older, its easier to prey on people with guilt, shame, or proposing their lives will be better if they just do X. Teenagers get sold how to fit in and look "normal", which is its own giant bag of bullshit. Girls continue to get the short end of the stick because if they doesn't fit into certain archetypes then they straight up don't exist. Some of the what we get pushed to just accept are certain hygiene standards, being submissive, having to be a certain type of pretty, even how we're supposed to behave sexually is commodified and sold to us.
Once the teenage market starts getting becoming relevant to where you are in life it loses most of the subversive touch, its stops implying that this is how you should act and just presents how you're to be molded as the only option. Sexual education programs in schools are sponsored by the same companies that sell extra whitening toothpaste, deodorant and leg razors. After school specials only show girls that fit the desired future consumer mold having a decent life. Even "alternative" people are regulated, and its handled to only properly be a phase. At the hands of the media, we're encouraged to hate ourselves, fear our natural bodies, and conform to things that make your life expensive and miserable. We're even sold an overpriced and disrespectful death at the hand of social norms.
There is one advantage that we do have: as soon as you decide to pull back from the vortex of consumerism, you can start pulling apart all of the damage its done. Online, there are huge libraries of counter-culture information about how to quit living by the corporate blade and most big cities will have some kind of anarchist group. It will never be too late to take charge of your own life, and there will never be a better time then the present.
As we get older, its easier to prey on people with guilt, shame, or proposing their lives will be better if they just do X. Teenagers get sold how to fit in and look "normal", which is its own giant bag of bullshit. Girls continue to get the short end of the stick because if they doesn't fit into certain archetypes then they straight up don't exist. Some of the what we get pushed to just accept are certain hygiene standards, being submissive, having to be a certain type of pretty, even how we're supposed to behave sexually is commodified and sold to us.
Once the teenage market starts getting becoming relevant to where you are in life it loses most of the subversive touch, its stops implying that this is how you should act and just presents how you're to be molded as the only option. Sexual education programs in schools are sponsored by the same companies that sell extra whitening toothpaste, deodorant and leg razors. After school specials only show girls that fit the desired future consumer mold having a decent life. Even "alternative" people are regulated, and its handled to only properly be a phase. At the hands of the media, we're encouraged to hate ourselves, fear our natural bodies, and conform to things that make your life expensive and miserable. We're even sold an overpriced and disrespectful death at the hand of social norms.
There is one advantage that we do have: as soon as you decide to pull back from the vortex of consumerism, you can start pulling apart all of the damage its done. Online, there are huge libraries of counter-culture information about how to quit living by the corporate blade and most big cities will have some kind of anarchist group. It will never be too late to take charge of your own life, and there will never be a better time then the present.
2011-07-27
First swings
If I'm going to be stuck in my flat because of illness, but with a head still full of sharp ideas, I may as well put it all somewhere.
All of the simple and significant things about me are point-formed on the side. I'm small, in my early 20s and dealing with a chronic illness that leaves me not really able to work or even get around. Even though I do have a lot of mobility issues, I try to keep up with all of my old interests and hobbies, like bike riding, sewing, baking, and general mischief. Social responsibility and shattering the really fucked up mentality of how to treat other earthlings is critically important to me. There are too many things going on in the world because people are over complacent with what the distorted media and corporate puppets in the government are feeding us and it has to stop. If there's one thing worth fighting for, its living free and honest.
All of the simple and significant things about me are point-formed on the side. I'm small, in my early 20s and dealing with a chronic illness that leaves me not really able to work or even get around. Even though I do have a lot of mobility issues, I try to keep up with all of my old interests and hobbies, like bike riding, sewing, baking, and general mischief. Social responsibility and shattering the really fucked up mentality of how to treat other earthlings is critically important to me. There are too many things going on in the world because people are over complacent with what the distorted media and corporate puppets in the government are feeding us and it has to stop. If there's one thing worth fighting for, its living free and honest.
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