I hate money. I hate the way so much of my time is spent trying to get it, and the rest is spent trading it away - half the time for stuff I don't enjoy. I hate the way so many people consider it a standard by which to measure or judge my values and my worth as a human being. I hate the way having it (or not) affects my moods, what I can do with my time, and how I feel about myself. I hate that so much of my time and energy goes into thinking about it or chasing it. I hate that it divides people into groups, and that those divisions each come with their own set of expectations and priveleges.
Ye gods, I detest money!!
And, yes, John Stossel, you smug right-wing bullshit artist, I think many people who believe there's a global warming crisis *are* anti-capitalist, but maybe that's because we don't buy that all the rich bastards (like yourself) who support (not to mention profit from) the industries that create and perpetuate global warming....are not going to wake up when there's no clean air to breathe (and not much land above water, and no atmosphere to protect us from the sun, etc.) and suddenly feel like saving the world out of the kindness of their icy hearts. Maybe we suspect they'll stay true to character and save their own asses, leaving the rest of us to fuck off.
To drift with every passion till my soul
Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play,
Is it for this that I have given away
Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control ?
Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll
Scrawled over some boyish holiday
With idle songs for pipe and virelay,
Which do but mar the secret of the whole.
Surely there was a time I might have trod
The sunlight heights, and from life's dissonance
Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God :
Is that time dead ? lo ! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance -
And must I lose a soul's inheritance ?
- Oscar Wilde
Reminder to myself: There are lots of people who will help me if I need it. People care about me. I am loved.
You rock, sure, but you're not A rock. Or an island, dammit!
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11 December 2007: Music & falling....story of my life.
08 December 2007: Briefly...ish.
29 November 2007: A poem, a rant, a lesson.