#so we got to the point where instead of fucking around with fucking crypto wallets and NTF’s we could study the rise fall and darkside of Tumblr posts

[drugsforaddicts]

I think I might’ve teared my tutor a new one…

[blonkk]

i’m so serious i can’t raise kids in this society. like i think me saying that is kind of a projection because actually i don’t even want to have kids but i can’t stay here myself. i want to adopt /foster kids. not babies, kids. but that creates another moral/ethical dilemma because my ideal life is living somewhere far away from urban centres in a small community surrounded by grass and trees and the like. and if i foster or adopt children i can’t take them away from their own communities/families/friends etc.

anyways i guess the need to have children around me is selfish, like i don’t actually need it i just genuinely enjoy their company and want to do something for kids who need it. there’s no perfect way to do that…….but i know that removing them from those important people/places is like. abusive and wrong. so anyways

but like i grew up when technology was just starting to get insidious, but still, i had a time in my life where reading for hours instead of scrolling for hours was the thing to do without effort. i had an attention span. i played outside and got hurt and got bored sitting in front of the tv. my parents weren’t consumed by their own devices. i still played on the computer and watched tv but it wasn’t constant mindless consumption to the point where i revolved my entire life and identity around it. i remember feeling bad for kids when i was in high school who had a radically different childhood then mine, but now i look at the way things are and the way they’re going and i just do not want to have any part in it. like i know that there are benefits, like kids can learn to code and watch exciting things on youtube and stay busy etc. but in my opinion lapses of boredom and not being able to just know everything immediately is actually good for you. i don’t want my kid or myself to develop neck problems, back problems, sleeping problems, eye problems, attention span problems, mental illness. like literally i’m so sorry this shit makes people sad and fills us with loneliness and self hatred. bad things exist without tech and the internet but guess what?? it doesn’t even come close to comparing. but how do you go on in life trying to defy the norms??? i want to be a part of society so i legit NEED a smartphone, NEED wifi, NEED goddamn gmail. i hate it.

like the worst thing is that we knowwww that this stuff isn’t good. it goes beyond tech, i more mean the rhetoric of the “future” and all that shit. sorry but we don’t need electric cars especially if we rely on fossil fuels to power them. we don’t need to go to fucking mars. we don’t need to have face and touch ID and mobile wallets and crypto and go cashless. these are all objectively bad things for the planet, people, and the future. i don’t get how people think that this is the only way to go forward when it’s actually so incredibly shortsighted. like there is no sustainability in any of this. we need cross country railway and expanded public transport systems. we need to invest in conservation and education about home economics ie identifying edible plants, first aid and home remedies, gardening, cooking, etc. we need to keep carrying cash on our person everywhere we go. we need to walk or bike or drive to the store to get pens or milk instead of ordering and having it delivered by someone whose face we never even see. we need to let kids play unsupervised and we need to let them be bored. we need to enact some sort of policy that makes it against employee rights to be contacted after work hours; work emails need to automatically stop notifying after 4:30 let’s say. we need to crush grind culture under our heels. we need to make it illegal for children under like 16 to have access to any social media. also it needs to be illegal to put photos of children on the internet. there needs to be bylaws that prohibit chemicals being used on yards and grass being placed where it doesn’t belong and instead promote i manicured biodiversity. we need to eat local meat and dairy and produce.

i could go on. basically my main point is that children are not safe nor looked after in our societies. they are not protected or valued. they aren’t nourished properly. and when we talk all this shit about the future!! wow!! innovation! expansion!! it’s all such a farce because nooooppppeeeee no one will be okay. no one will even have a chance at experiencing a life that isn’t about making sure you can merely sustain yourself. literallylyyyyy we are on a sinking ship and the people just keep adding water and pissing in it