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The casually gathered thoughts, musings, and writings of a feral old woman.40s, Black, Puerto Rican, neurodivergent, atheist/ex-christian, cis gendered, heterosexual, heteroromantic, allosexual, sex positive, disabled; survivor since childhood STILL stubbornly continuing to survive.Always learning. Always trying to find ways to remain human despite the pressures of this capitalist hell-machine.✨🌌🖖🏾☀️🌊🌿🇵🇷🌺🌪️🌕🖖🏾🌌✨[This is more often than not going to be a collection of slightly cleaned-up, random thoughts and musings, and responses that I've given in various conversations that people seem to have really liked and asked to see. ^^;It's not a place where I'll debate, so. Conservatives will not be entertained... more likely deleted and blocked...admittedly, with pleasure. :3 ...And I can't believe I have to say this, but this "will-be-blocked-not-entertained" rule ***includes TERFs!*** 🙄]{ And...To be perfectly honest, it's better if minors don't follow me. I will get smutty on occasion ^^; It's only a matter of time.}Friends In Need: My home situation is..not good. I don't control my household or have my own money. 😥 I'm so sorry. I wish that I did. (Or I wish I at *least* lived with someone who shared my values, who would agree on what is important to spend on.)IF I ever do have anything, I'll probably give through one of the pages that has vetted requests. Please focus your energies on getting listed there.Again, I am sorry. I know it doesn't mean anything, but I will hope and yearn always for your safety, liberation, and comfort, and for victory against every oppressor.✨🌌🏞️✊🏾May the land be yours once again✊🏾🌅🌌✨✨✊🏾🍊🍉🇵🇸🍉🍊✊🏾✨

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Schools Can Teach, But Unfortunately, Under Capitalism, They Are More Likely There To Indoctrinate.

Schools can teach, but unfortunately, under capitalism, they are more likely there to indoctrinate.

Children are taught how to stay still for long periods of time, wait through boredom, endure bullying, affirm and normalize hierarchies, and obey authorities unquestioningly: all things adults are forced to do, once they enter the work place, in order to serve corporations and capitalism.

It was bad when I was a kid, and I felt sorry for the other kids as well.

I'd just hoped like hell that what I was experiencing was some bizarre kind of trend or a fluke, and that both kids and adults would be treated better by a better society when I got older …

But it's gotten WORSE.

We at least had reasonable third spaces to run to, when I was a kid.

There were streets you could bike on.

We weren't getting our free time and attention micromanaged by helicopter parents.

We hadn't been conditioned to serve as a panopticon: filming each other without permission and sharing that surveillance maliciously.

We didn't have the Patriot Act in place and encouraging surveillance around the globe.

We didn't have apps that we used to try and relax, spying on us, so that corporations could sell our data and try to fine-tune their efforts to manage algorithms and brainwash us towards our less compassionate natures.

There sure as hell weren't school shootings and a constant in-school police presence to deal with.

And we were not cognizant that there might not even BE a world to live in once we grew up, due to climate change.

I feel sorry for students and for the more earnest teachers in all this.

It has become so difficult to grow into anyone humane, given the current parameters of how children are treated.

Schools Can Teach, But Unfortunately, Under Capitalism, They Are More Likely There To Indoctrinate.

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