#Individualization

[judahmaccabees]

greater possibility you demanded, twas for greater hope commanded, there's your Peace And Security ™ granted

Naming a thing idolizes it, separating it from itself

Force, stay off my Boundaries

Thought and Doubt,

Imagine,

Not

Delicacy of Touch

Duty of Wisdom

End of Ignorance

Beginning of Future

Cause and Effect,

Shifting Responsibility,

Faltering Rising,

Walking Death

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[pushkar1997]

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[worldwithoutmiracles]

also, it's a toxic manifestation of the individualization of American society. you used to have unions, families, neighborhoods, clubs, sports teams, work mentors, church groups, coworkers, casual acquaintances, hell your local grocer, all of these people you would talk to every day and who would have roughly similar local concerns as you did. healing, growth, learning, venting, soothing - all of these things were community responsibilities, and if there was something lacking, it was up to the community to do better.

now that corporations and technology have weakened all of those real bonds and atomized us into consumers in content bubbles, it's up to each individual person to "work" on themselves. group religion becomes a personal spirituality. your unionized workplace becomes your personal hustle. your community softball league gets swapped out for a side gig that's more "productive" (and coincidentally, isolating). and the entirety of the injustices of the world become "mental health struggles", and it's up to you and your phone that is tuned to 24/7 panic and outrage to navigate it alone with expensive therapy and self-help books. oh and if you fail at any of these, it is your personal moral fault.

I'm not saying all the old structures were great or that people didn't used to have problems. I'm not saying everything about our new lens is flawed, or that no problems can be solved through individual work. but I'm shocked at how quickly and completely most people have fallen into a kind of bootstraps Protestant-work-ethic myth about every problem in their lives being a problem in themselves.

these are not all things we are supposed to do alone. you are not failing. no person is capable of healing themselves completely and perfecting themselves through raw effort. structural change and larger institutions are important tools in creating the life you want to live and the person you want to be. form community. help other people. have conversations with people with different views. stop making yourself the center of all the world's hopes and all its failures.

i keep thinking about how it feels as if we have developed ourselves an obsession with "healing" these days – and a friend said something that really stuck in my head – "if you're part of a community where you're always trying to heal, then that means that you always need to be sick". like i think that we're all taking this ideal of healing too far saying that everybody needs therapy all the time and resetting your gut biome or surrounding yourself with positive energy or whatever it is that you can come up with. you're always focusing on something that is "wrong" and that needs to be eliminated, after which everything will be okay again. it all sounds like just another way of maintaining an illusion of control over your life and i don't think it's doing us any good

[powdermelonkeg]

Reblog to give a trans person a fresh and perfectly ripe mango wait huh

It's the wikipedia image??? How big could it be

What

Huh???

[ispyspookymansion]

first they made it mandatory to log in everywhere. create an account to download your free template Log in to access resource give us your email nowwwww. Now the humble password is being killed too. open your magic email link! type your 6 digit code that we texted you because we required your email and your phone number! we’re gonna call you and whisper a code sweetly in your ear so you can log in to your account. yes it has a password but you cant use that anymore. okay? poob is gonna call you. now poob is just gonna call you.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

that article going around abt firefox's new ad program is annoying bc it's phrased as though "mozilla has finally TURNED on its people and is SELLING YOU OUT for cold hard cash!!" when. that's not what's happening. it is specifically being implemented to discourage tracking behavior, and literally all the data they are giving to advertisers is aggregate and anonymized, which is like, the opposite of what that post wants you to worry about, lol

[logictoinsanity]

my favorite kind of character is the kind who deep in their soul is constantly screaming LOVE ME LOVE ME LOVE ME and outwardly expressing literally anything else

[mimimar]

(open pages for better image quality)

the moment I heard elphaba's delivery of "there's a girl i know..." in i'm not that girl i knew i had to draw this comic, i strongly recommend listening to it while you read for the full experience!

this comic is a companion to this piece (which was inspired by glinda's delivery of the same line in the i'm not that girl reprise).

pages 1-4 are from elphie's pov, pages 5-8 are from glinda's.

prints of individual pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

flower meanings in order of appearance:

[shrinkrants]

social scientists have a term, “reification,” for the process by which the effects of a political arrangement of power and resources start to seem like objective, inevitable facts about the world. Reification swaps out a political problem for a scientific or technical one; it’s how, for example, the effects of unregulated tech oligopolies become “social media addiction,” how climate catastrophe caused by corporate greed becomes a “heat wave” — and, by the way, how the effect of struggles between labor and corporations combines with high energy prices to become “inflation.” Examples are not scarce. For people in power, the reification sleight of hand is very useful because it conveniently abracadabras questions like “Who caused this thing?” and “Who benefits?” out of sight. Instead, these symptoms of political struggle and social crisis begin to seem like problems with clear, objective technical solutions — problems best solved by trained experts. In medicine, examples of reification are so abundant that sociologists have a special term for it: “medicalization,” or the process by which something gets framed as primarily a medical problem. Medicalization shifts the terms in which we try to figure out what caused a problem, and what can be done to fix it. Often, it puts the focus on the individual as a biological body, at the expense of factoring in systemic and infrastructural conditions. -- Danielle Carr

[idontmindifuforgetme]

Feeling incredibly sick and angry about everything. I’ll go about my day and try to be normal and then it just ambushes me and honestly the only people keeping me sane rn are the Arabs who’ve voiced similar experiences and are staying the course and being vocal despite all the attempts to basically blame everything that’s wrong with this country on us

[bakedbananners]

it cracks me up that tatsu wanted dandadan to strictly have just a girl main character but he eventually caved and was like. fine I’ll put a boy. but I’m taking his balls away.

[linkcharacter]

Anya and Curly stuffs

[catgirlcaliphate]

Turning off the reblogs on this. At the time I wrote it, it felt like what I needed to say. There's not as much activity on the post now, but when there is, I feel...sort of hollow. We're so far past the point where this even means anything.

Y'all remember "cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people, either", right?

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to die beneath the rubble of their homes.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be shot with expanding bullets that cause massive tissue damage leading to amputation.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to have their flesh burned away with white phosphorous.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve their fishing boats blown up.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to see their husbands and fathers executed in front of them along evacuation routes.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve an anonymous phone call threatening to destroy their lives and families.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be detained for years without charges.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be tortured, starved, and sexually assaulted in prison.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be deprived of water.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve their olive trees to be uprooted while they look on.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve sixteen years of blockade.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve to be prevented from traveling for lifesaving medical care.

Palestinians who have done something wrong don't deserve this genocide.

[wishfulsketching]

This is what the dynamic was like

[wizardnuke]

"i hate microlabels" yeah i also kind of dislike the idea of putting ourselves and our identities into very specific boxes, i think it can be really isolating- ohh wait you mean you think they're invalid. ohh no that's not the way to look at it. killing you