I am frankly annoyed. We live in a time where corporations kill our true culture. Simplify our daily lives to the almighty, inflated dollar. A life to be bought, sold, and consumed. Where happiness the most overrated and over-consumed emotion can be purchased for a dollar amount. Where humans, even by the Christian account, are from the dirt are presently unable and unwilling to grow food for themselves and rely on earth damaging systems that are “convenient”. And they are very convenient in the sense that instead of walking outside of your door and traveling to the extremes of the “land you own”, onto your patio, or near the window of your home, we get in our cars that we bought from a corporation, buy gasoline from a corporation (In which we proclaim and document via social media how low the prices are while ignoring the countless lives domestic and abroad that were lost to keep it below $2.99 per gallon), to drive on roads maintained with our earnings from our wage labor, to grocery stores with corporate ownership and equip with corporate coffee shops to suit our corporate tastes. We then proceed to buy corporate foods masquerading as our family members and reminders of the corporate slaves of yesterday. Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima--the lady who received $200 for recipe and her likeness, her identity. Her family defeated by corporate lawyers who protect the corporations. They are the best lawyers because their brand of school costs the most, socially and financially.
But if we do what I deem the most peaceful protest, and grow food, rely on ourselves a little more we must still by corporate seeds. Branding the bounty gifted by God and the Earth. They bought our earth while few spoke of the warning. In the corporate funded senate and house, those who try to inform are sequestered and muffled. Labeled and discredited.
I know people who call themselves artists, academics, and they create things. They engage in the more self actualizing activities. To be able to create something functional (or not) to take matter and reform it for their sake. They engage in energy of the human creation, not usually the corporate one. And if an artist is indoctrinated they breathe life into the purgatory they falsely claim to be human. A corporation is only a human in the way that we are what we eat.
The economic systems are broken, millennia of human knowledge and we have progressed only in commercial ways. Ignorant to our bodies, pacifying our souls in order to sustain ideals we do not even believe in. Yes I a mixed race female have access to education which some would label progress, but not in the true form of the ideal of progress. Me and those in my strata should have never been culturally oppressed and marginalized in the first place. Human equity is a common sense that is not common. I do not house the desire for power or overtaking my fellow humans. I desire kindness, compassion, and the honoring of personal truths. I host ideas of human sacredness, humans as meant to find the God within ourselves, the need to give support and love. The ability to empathize. I am not indifferent to suffering, and I know no ‘others’, as we are unified. I choose brotherhood over otherhood. I choose community rather than individualism. What we want was once here, and we must return to the natural balance and harmony of the earth, and spirit. Do you feel it too? The disconnect from all the lies that have been paraded in front of us? Do you draw more peace from looking outside a window better than into a corporate black hole commonly known as television? Do you feel unrepresented? Me too, but I will not go unheard.
In the words of my archangel Frederick Douglass, “AGITATE!”
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