Nihilistic but trashy horror punk Melancholic~INFJ~Empathetic
Overly sensitive and self destructive darling Chaotic Good
Neoliberalism creates a political landscape devoid of public accountability, access, and agency, which is to say devoid of democracy itself. As a predatory competition for hoarding profit, neoliberalism produces massive inequality in wealth and income, shifts in political power to financial elites, destroys all vestiges of the social contract, and increasingly views “unproductive” sectors - most often those marginalized by race, class, disability, resident status, and age - as suspicious, potentially criminal, and ultimately disposable. It thus criminalizes social problems and manufactures profit by commercializing surveillance, policing, and prisons.
Ugh. Kids these days. With their taste in things that’s different than my taste in things was when I was their age due to the ever-evolving media landscape and constantly growing range of options and things that have nothing to do with their intelligence or anything going down hill. Get off my lawn.
I walked on a sidewalk of halogen reflections. The landscape of suburbs held in the perfect stasis of heavy drizzle. Every house a silent, empty backdrop of my evening’s stage.
I could have been walking for minutes. Or hours. It all bled together in a seamless smudge of distance and time.
The rainfall tasted of aluminum. There was no wind. The petrichor had fled back into the gutters long ago.
The only companion in loneliness was tiny, wan light of a sickly, yellowish screen. A single name highlighted, behind a tiny infinity of text. Cupped in my hands as though it would speak words that would save my life.
