bailey//rockruff⚪
society is in a loop where a little bit of progress happens, then people get lazy and think everything's perfect, then shitty people start taking the reigns and acting out their agendas, then people revolt against that and take back society, then society progresses a marginal amount again, and the cycle goes on
but we're currently so dulled to the idea of violence as a means, that we may not hit the revolution point anytime soon enough to go properly forward from this
bailey//rockruff⚪
been wrestling a lot with the idea of how much one is obligated to do to better society. especially at one's own expense.
we all look back fondly on radicals and revolutionaries, and we like to call ourselves such when the terms are hardly deserved, but what actions can we do to properly live up to the radicals and revolutionaries before us?
bailey//rockruff⚪
is the drastically increased danger of today's technology, weapons, and tightly-knit defense system cause for more caution, hiding, trying to do things "peacefully"?
or is it all the more reason to start revolting as quickly and as drastically as possible, to stop it before it gets any harder to defeat?
bailey//rockruff⚪
we keep talking about ways to bring about change without injury or loss of life and yet history is paved with revolutions and uprisings where people always got hurt, died, etc
it's a reality we'll absolutely need to face, to change a society where we are hurting and dying
the only difference is that the people that have the resources to fight, are the ones that aren't yet facing the axe. anyone who knows the gravity of the situation is too far gone to help, and nobody listens.
bailey//rockruff⚪
it's like this by design. the harder you struggle, the more you'll question society, and the quicker you'll be pushed downward until you're so busy with your own survival and have so few resources that once you've finally figured out how drastic the situation is, and what truly needs to happen to bring about change, you can't do anything to work against it.
bailey//rockruff⚪
i mean, shit, how many people who are supposedly caring and forward-thinking, look down upon the homeless? when they are our greatest resource in figuring out how the system is failing and learning how pertinent the situation really is?
we are still letting society bias us to a whole group of disenfranchised individuals because we'd rather live a lie than accept the truth
these people are failed by the same system you are being failed by. you could eventually become one of them.
bailey//rockruff⚪
housing is more important than healthcare to be quite fucking honest, as someone who has gone without both.
tired of this misguided selfish reform bullshit and the push for socialised healthcare which only proves to benefit people who already have shelter and food to live long enough to get the energy to actually see a fucking doctor
bailey//rockruff⚪
literally it'll take you years to even accomplish this step if the ruling class allows it at all, and by that time we'll all be even worse off in a myriad of ways
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