We're so f*cked
dialogue on the world / conversation starter
The world is a good place, isn't it?
Well.
At least better than before.
Well...
We don't colonize people anymore.
But there isn't anyone left to colonize.
Well, we don't assimilate people anymore.
No, we just incorporate other passive efforts to.
Okay, well, we don't enslave people anymore.
But the previously enslaved are now lynched and murdered without justice.
Okay... But women have rights.
Some, but what about their autonomy? Do you know the way they talk about them?
Okay... well, we have technology.
Yes, but there's censorship. Scams. Deep fakes. Exploitation.
But... we have freedom.
Freedom? Is this what it is to be free?
Stop being fine with the world, because it's better than it used to be.
We're not done yet.
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I will likely be creating some nonfiction discussion posts in the future on some topics. This semester in my year at university has been one of the toughest, focusing on topics that hit hard. I think it's important we keep talking. Are you ready to talk?
Belle
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Violence Begets
"Any last words, cowboy?" "None you'd understand, sodbuster." "Funny. That's Marshall Sodbuster to you. But I meant some last nugget that would help us in the adjudication of the myriad offenses counted against you and your gang. I wasn't asking for penitence."
By Adam Diehl4 days ago in Fiction
Comments (7)
Things can always get better I suppose
All I will say is: YEP, EXACTLY! #resist
There's a lot of dark in the world but I do feel like that stuff is easier to report. And it is being fought. Just you writing this piece is fighting it. And where there's fight, there's hope.
Powerful work
More people need to talk about Love not Hate.
To me, the world may be better than before in certain ways but wayyyyy worse than before in many other ways
We all need to talk...