clatterbane:

merkwelt:

ironinkpen:

ironinkpen:

“that’s just the way the world works” it literally doesn’t have to be but okay

if anyone ever tells you “humans are just selfish / life is cruel / that’s just how the world is, get over it” be critical of them bc there’s a 75% chance they’re just using that as an excuse for their own shitty behavior so that they don’t have to put an effort into being better, kinder people

That whole conference talk by Barbara Mann, along with a transcript I put together years ago. As usual, it’s full of though-provoking points.

But they’re totally dislocated spiritually by the discovery that institutions are just human-made. They’re just people-made. People made them, and people can unmake them, and people can remake them, people can retool them anytime they like.

If things are unfair, all of a sudden they start realizing, as you said [gestures to someone in audience], if somebody’s rich over here it’s because somebody’s poor over there–if things are unfair, it’s because the unfairness benefits somebody powerful. And people just don’t want to change the unfairness. There’s nothing God-given or God-driven about that unfairness, it’s a totally created situation.