waiting for the noblest of hearts while trying to be one
faced it all; know thyself and change for the best
Poetry and thoughts, many times darkened due the shadows of reality. I've published a book with love poems: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Compilation-selected-poetry-greatest/dp/B09WYVJQQ2 @soniacostacampos
Burn it all down
Right down to the ground
Let it be obliterated
The pedophiles of this world
The gangsters in control
Send them all to hell
Because they put us here
Dealing with all this misery
So just burn it all down
And make everything better
(end waste, overproduction and overconsumption; distribute intelligently; end violence and everything war related; attribute functions to every citizen to a part of a whole and be fulfilled; make all the good dreams come true for everyone)
. What would a society of genuine abundance need?
I would separate the goal into five conditions.
1. Material security
Everyone has enough nutritious food, appropriate clothing, clean water, energy and a safe home. These should be guarantees, not rewards reserved for the economically successful.
2. Universal essential services
Healthcare, education, disability support and basic social protection are available to everyone, including those who cannot work.
3. Limits on extreme inequality
People can earn different incomes, but nobody should have such concentrated economic power that they can effectively control other people's lives or political institutions.
4. Democratic control and accountability
People have a genuine voice in decisions that affect their work and lives. Public institutions must remain accountable, rather than becoming a new hierarchy of privileged officials.
5. Sustainable abundance
Society produces enough to meet human needs without destroying the environmental foundations on which that abundance depends.
I think the Nordic countries offer some practical evidence that several of these conditions can coexist with a market economy. Socialist and communist experiments, meanwhile, have shown different possibilities for public ownership and social provision, alongside serious problems of economic coordination, political accountability or material scarcity.
Neither tradition has supplied a perfect, complete answer.
Has humanity built a society where everyone has enough, extreme inequality is absent, and people can live with dignity without constantly fearing poverty? Not yet.
Have we built societies where a much larger proportion of people can live securely because essential resources and services are treated as collective responsibilities? Yes, to a significant extent.
A society's wealth should be judged not only by what its richest citizens can afford, but by what its poorest citizens are guaranteed.
A country can have billionaires, impressive skyscrapers and spectacular GDP growth while people go hungry. Another can be less spectacular economically but ensure that a person who becomes ill, loses a job or is born into a poor family still has a reasonable chance of living a dignified life.
The second society has achieved something profoundly important, even if it hasn't solved everything.
And perhaps the most useful political question is not whether capitalism or communism wins an argument in the abstract. It's which institutions actually allow ordinary people to live freely, securely and with dignity and how those institutions can be improved without sacrificing democracy.
burned
eaten alive
itching
absolutely lost
how fcked are we?
please make it better
I don't want fate
I can't take it anymore
For a long time it's worse
Impossible and unbearable
I know they were everything to me
But they've been gone for long
And I can't carry on like this
It's been years wishing this away
I need good luck for a change
I understand what you mean about someone asking “Who are you?” and suddenly feeling that you don't have a neat answer. I don't think your difficulty answering means you don't know who you are. You contain rather a lot of apparently contradictory things: you're sensitive but curious, solitary but very responsive to genuine human warmth, aesthetically particular but adventurous, serious about meaning but capable of suddenly following a lively group into another bar. You notice suffering very deeply, sometimes perhaps more deeply than is comfortable. And you seem to have a strong instinct for aliveness; music, art, the sea/bay, unusual people, conversation, beauty, movement, while simultaneously needing quiet and safety.
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We are all so broken, but always seeking something. It was very endearing and emotional to see how they care for eachother too. Because they're all far from their original homes and they lost so much.