David Lynch spent the last portion of his life in isolation. He said it was due to being high-risk and unable to risk getting COVID.
He’s not the only person with disability or illness who’s been left behind.
Everywhere you go without an n95 is a place you’ve decided disabled people don’t belong.
Good take. I work with too many clients who keep trying to push themselves when they've got nothing left in the tank. We need to time to recharge.
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Many of us are living in a way that isn't in accordance with our most deeply held values, which often contributes to a sense of anxiety, discordance, or dis-ease that can underlie our general experience of existing. Often, this is underneath our resistance to being present without distraction.
Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”
- Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater 3/3
Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. 2/3
“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. 1/3
Absolutely. I hope clumsy obvious attempts like this one help people begin to realize they're being distracted from the things that impact them the most.
RE: United Healthcare—“I think the leaders of the industry should look at this and ask: Why does everybody hate us so much that when one of us gets killed in an assassination … we’re not hearing sympathy from the general public—we’re hearing scorn?”
The state of the American healthcare system is an unacceptable tragedy for far too many. Look at your elected representatives, the media, and the pundits you listen to and ask yourself: are they paying attention to this, and if not, are the problems they're focusing on nearly as impactful to us?
So much of our current environment is designed to keep us fighting amongst each other, rather than recognizing the real sources of our societal misery. Ask yourself why so little change benefiting everyday people ever comes to pass and who profits when we're distracted fighting against one another.
